Communications Psychology
October 11, 2026
Peter Coppola, Pilleriin Sikka, Katja Valli et al.
Abstract The language people use to describe their inner experiences arising during sleep and wakefulness provides a window into the mind. Dreams and unguided waking thought, here referred to as mind wandering, are thought to reflect unique individual differences and mental health. Here we use graph theory to analyse a large dataset of dream (n = 1434) and mind wandering (n = 1619) reports from...
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology
October 11, 2026
Kim Supit, Giordano N. Rossi, José Augusto S. Reis et al.
Background: Classic psychedelics, including LSD, psilocybin, and N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT)/ ayahuasca, have shown promise as rapid-acting treatments for psychiatric disorders. Because sleep plays a central role in emotional regulation and neuroplasticity, psychedelic-induced changes in sleep architecture are of interest.Methods: A systematic review was conducted following PRISMA guidelines....
Illness Crisis & Loss
October 8, 2026
Ruth Parkes
Hypnagogic and hypnopompic (H&H) events are sleep phenomena which occur at the borders of consciousness between falling asleep and beginning to wake. There is limited qualitative exploration of the nature of these experiences, and no studies have yet been conducted specifically with accident survivors who go on to experience H&H events. The current paper uses Interpretative Phenomenological...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 7, 2026
Jeong-jae Lee
preprint
Where Do We Go When We Fall Asleep? — On the Boundaries of Reality Shaped by the Five Senses is a philosophical and speculative essay that reconsiders the conventional distinction between dreams and reality. The essay begins with a simple question: Why do we regard only the world experienced while awake as reality? It proposes that the five senses may function not only as windows onto reality,...
International Journal of Arabic-English Studies
October 6, 2026
Bayan AlAmmouri
This paper examines Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel (2025) as a technological dystopia that exposes the neoliberal extension of market‑driven rationality into the human psyche. Neoliberalism attempts to extend the figure of the homo economicus into a seamless homo technologicus seeking to capture even the most intimate terrains of subjectivity—dreams, emotions, and aspirations. The novel...
Religions
October 4, 2026
Hao Zhong, Gong Hua-nan
Pre-Qin Confucians frequently discussed dreams; it is a significant contribution of the Zhuangzi to elaborate on the self and self-transcendence through the medium of dreams. The particular nature of dreams is closely associated with death and intoxication. The attitude to death and drunkenness indicates that pre-Qin Confucians did not engage in extensive reflection on dreams or the...
arXiv (Cornell University)
October 2, 2026
Wiesław L Galus, Janusz A. Starzyk
preprint
Victor Lamme's Recurrent Processing Theory (RPT) proposes that the feedforward sweep (FFS) can extract and categorize visual features unconsciously, while conscious vision emerges through recurrent processing and feedback interactions across representational levels. The Motivated Emotional Mind (MEM) model, developed by Wiesław L. Galus and Janusz A. Starzyk, retains this core principle but...
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
October 1, 2026
Xin Yang, Shuping Fang, Kejia Hu et al.
Background: Psychedelics, including classic psychedelics, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), and ketamine, are increasingly investigated for psychiatric disorders, but their effects on sleep remain unclear. Objectives: To systematically evaluate the effects of these interventions on subjective and objective sleep outcomes and summarize sleep-related adverse events. Design: A systematic...
Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie
October 1, 2026
Janine Sigulla
Summary From narrated dream to NachTRaum: A grounded theory study on shared reflection in psychodynamic therapy groups A dream is told. What will become of it is not yet decided. Left untouched, it fades. But it can also open a space - the NachTRaum. Sixteen dream reports from two video-recorded psychodynamic therapy groups were examined through reflexive grounded theory to ask how such a space...
Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie
October 1, 2026
Fabian Finneiser, Ioannis Tsagkas, Lea Rebecca Minow et al.
Summary Affect regulation in dreams and personality organization: Insights from an ongoing empirical study Affect regulation constitutes a central structural dimension of psychoanalytic personality theory and the theoretical foundation of the Zurich Dream Process Coding System (ZDPCS), the most elaborate instrument for the empirical analysis of dream-inherent affect regulation. Preceding...