International Journal of Dream Research
August 25, 2026
Michael Schredl
Erotic dreams are quite common, however, measuring the frequency of such a private topic faces some challenges. First, not every participant might be comfortable to report erotic dreams in dream diary, thus, the frequency of erotic dreams might be underestimations. On the other hand, retrospective measures regarding the frequency of erotic dreams might yield overestimations as erotic dreams are...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Juza Minamikata
preprint
Consciousness research contains several distinct transfer problems: from reports or neural signals to target states, from target states to consciousness classifications, from coarse to fine grains, and from shared classifications to claims of common underlying structure. This paper argues that these problems instantiate a single methodological restriction, the Non-Inheritance Principle: warrant...
Voice of History
August 25, 2026
Ram Kumar Rai
Shamanism generally refers to indigenous ritual systems involving relationships between humans and spiritual or non-human realms, often associated with healing, spirit mediation, trance, and altered states of consciousness. In the Khambu worldview of eastern Nepal, Dowang refers to an indigenous ritual institution associated with ancestral calling, sacred knowledge, and the transmission of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 24, 2026
Metin Doğan
preprint
The Dream-Mediated Awakening Hypothesis (DMAH) is a conceptual and testable hypothesis concerning the transition from sleep to conscious wakefulness. DMAH proposes that every successful transition from sleep to conscious wakefulness may involve a transient state of subjective, internally generated experience immediately before or during awakening. This experience need not take the form of a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 23, 2026
Francis Smith
preprint
This preprint develops a state-space account of phenomenal character in which conscious experience depends not only on the configuration presently realized, but also on the represented structure of transitions available from that configuration. The framework distinguishes current phenomenal configuration, external anchoring, and a prospective transition field describing the topology of...
International Journal of Dream Research
August 21, 2026
Emma Peters, Daniel Erlacher, Clarita Bonamino
Lucid dream control (LDC), the ability to deliberately influence dream experiences during a lucid dream, is central to many theoretical, experimental, and lucid dream clinical applications. Despite its importance, standardized instruments for assessing LDC remain limited, typically treating it as a single, broad construct. This study aimed to develop and provide a preliminary evaluation of the...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 20, 2026
Atakan Selte, Steven E. Haworth, Thomas J. Vanasse et al.
preprint
Abstract Identifying neural signatures of consciousness remains a central challenge in neuroscience. Sleep offers a tractable model for comparing brain activity in the presence or absence of subjective experience while minimizing behavioral responsiveness confounds. Using overnight 256-electrode high-density EEG in 140 participants and a serial-awakening paradigm, we analyzed 699 non-rapid eye...
Review of International American Studies
August 20, 2026
Navdeep Kahol
The novella Pale Horse, Pale Rider, authored by Katherine Anne Porter and published in 1939, is set against the backdrop of the 1918–1919 Spanish flu pandemic towards the end of World War I. It narrates the dual story of individual and societal trauma and survival amidst the pandemic, contributing to the cultural memory of that era in American history. The narrative draws heavily on...
Studia Mythologica Slavica
August 18, 2026
Tina Ivnik
This article examines the connection between the ideas adherents of alternative spiritualities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have about the afterlife and their understanding of dreams involving the dead. It explores how these ideas and interpretations are connected to the perceived agency of the dead, as experienced by my interlocutors in their dreams. Focusing on ideas about the afterlife within...
August 16, 2026
Emma Peters, Daniel Erlacher, Clarita Bonamino
preprint
Lucid dream control (LDC), the ability to deliberately influence dream experiences during a lucid dream, is central to many theoretical, experimental, and lucid dream clinical applications. Despite its importance, standardized instruments for assessing LDC remain limited, typically treating it as a single, broad construct. This study aimed to develop and validate the Lucid Dream Control...