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...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 16, 2026
Alison Jane King, Darryl Gray
preprint
This manuscript develops the Principle of Structural Dependence (PSD) as a general organisational constraint for theories and empirical models of awareness and cognitive capacities. PSD proposes that measurable differences in a capacity require corresponding differences in the organisation relevant to supporting that capacity. The principle is deliberately modest: it does not specify what...
Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
August 15, 2026
Filip Gołaszewski, Jan Molina
Dreams, Myth, and the Phenomenology of EntanglementWe are pleased to introduce the second of the two consecutive issues of Eidos.A Journal for Philosophy of Culture entitled Phenomenology and Narrative (respectively Part 1 and Part 2).This issue continues the investigations into the intersections signaled in its title, being on the one hand slightly more closely focused on classical...
Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
August 15, 2026
Nicolas de Warren
This essay examines dreaming as a challenge to the dichotomy between narrative and episodic conceptions of the self.Drawing on Sartre's phenomenology of the imaginary, it argues that dreams elude both accounts: dream consciousness is episodic and pre-reflective -reflective awareness that one is dreaming would annihilate the dream -yet dreams are experienced, on Sartre's insight, as "a story...