Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
October 1, 2026
A. Purcell, Daniel L. Morris, Jahred Rosa-Sullivan et al.
Objective: Over the past 60 years, contemplative practices have been shown to alleviate certain mental health symptoms. Humans spend approximately one third of their lives asleep, yet there is limited scientific investigation of the benefit of performing contemplative exercises during sleep. Tibetan Buddhist Dream Yoga (TBDY) is a contemplative practice where dreamers perform mental exercises...
International Journal of Dream Research
September 30, 2026
Michael Schredl
Sigmund Freud is often cited with his ideas to interpret a variety of dream symbols as being sexual. As erections occur regularly during REM sleep that is associated with vivid dream recall, the question arises whether Freud’s ideas about the sexual meaning of dreams might be related to this physiology.
Psychosis
September 29, 2026
Justin McDermott
Background This first-person account develops Clouded Conscious-ness Theory (CCT) as a modest formulation lens for psychosis: a way of describing how reality may become organised from within when salience, threat, emotion, memory, and symbolic meaning interact.Approach I draw on personal experiences in which ordinary events stopped feeling neutral and arrived as messages, accusations, warnings,...
Sleep Epidemiology
September 29, 2026
Yuki Tanaka, Yuichiro Otsuka, Suguru Nakajima et al.
Dream experiences have been associated with emotional and mental health characteristics; however, epidemiological evidence among adolescents remains limited. This study examined dream experiences and their associations with sleep, mental health, and lifestyle factors among students from participating high schools in one prefecture in western Japan. A school-based, non-random, cross-sectional...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Alexandru C. Stan
preprint
The standalone companion to Vision: From Photon to Mind, this essay picks up the visual signal at the threshold where the retina ends and the brain begins — the lamina cribrosa, the "Stargate" — and follows the central visual pathway station by station: the optic nerve and chiasm, where two eye-centred images are re-sorted into halves of a world; the lateral geniculate nucleus, a "relay" that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Douwe Fennema
preprint
Abstract During wakefulness, experience continually changes the functional organization of neural networks. Repetition, attention, emotional significance, and other forms of experience-dependent activation can affect the relative strength of synaptic relationships (Hebb, 1949; Bliss & Lømo, 1973; Dudek & Bear, 1992). During sleep, direct coupling to external sensory input and behavioral output...
International Journal of Dream Research
September 23, 2026
Mark Blagrove
From December 2024 to October 2025, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem presented Lucid Dreams, an interdisciplinary exhibition marking the centenary of Surrealism and of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism (1924). Curated by Adina Kamien, the exhibition brought together some 180 works and objects, including Surrealist and contemporary art, dream- and sleep-related multicultural, religious and...
Psychoanalytic Inquiry
September 22, 2026
Rodolfo Olivieri, Christine Avedikian, Mário Eduardo Costa Pereira et al.
Ayahuasca users often report receiving “messages” or a silent “voice” experienced as coming from an external instance that is neither the self nor other humans present. Building on Diament, Gomes, and Tófoli’s notion of a “plant third party,” we rename this phenomenon the plant third to foreground the field in which alterity is encountered. We first read the plant third through Lacanian...
Sleep Medicine
September 16, 2026
Abanoub J Armanious, Alexandra R Dunn, Caitlin E Martin et al.
Lemborexant is a dual orexin receptor antagonist (DORA) approved for the clinical management of insomnia. Clinical trials indicate that lemborexant improves sleep onset latency and sleep maintenance, with mild somnolence as the most common side effect. However, there is limited real-world evidence characterizing patient experiences with lemborexant, including perceived benefits, side effects,...
Metafizika Journal
September 15, 2026
Kamala Panahova
The article examines mystical elements within the Ancient Egyptian tradition. In Ancient Egyptian culture, mysticism was viewed not merely as a collection of religious rituals, but as an esoteric system that clarified the structure of the universe and man's place within the spiritual hierarchy. For the first time, the idea that chosen individuals could achieve enlightenment (attaining secret...