Research on the continuity and discontinuity between the waking and dreaming minds has largely focused on similarities and differences in waking and dream content. The present study expands this debate by examining another dimension: the relationship between the dream self and the waking self at the phenomenal level. Specifically, it investigates how bodily and affective dimensions of dream...
In homeopathic practice, dreams are not simply repertory symptoms or marginal details of the examination, but a form of language through which vital force is expressed. They are fragments of truth embedded in the individual's constitution that emerge during sleep, when consciousness slackens and leaves room for what remains invisible and unheard in waking life. Narrating a dream is not simply...
We propose the Chaos-State Space Dream Model (CSSDM): a candidate neural correlate of dream consciousness. CSSDM treats dreaming as the brain's exploration of hierarchically organized attractor landscapes when sensory anchoring lifts and prefrontal control attenuates during REM sleep. The proposal combines two published frameworks. From chaos-theoretic accounts of dream phenomenology, we take...
Contrary to common believe, some studies have reported the existence of observer dreams, in which the dreamer does not intervene. Parkinson's disease (PD) patients frequently report alterations in dream content, but nothing is known regarding this feature. Our objective was to assess the frequency of observer dreams in PD and correlation with clinical features. Dreams reports were collected...
There has been much critical writing about guilt, morality and psychological agony in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. The psychological conflicts involved in Raskolnikov’s divided consciousness have been a subject of numerous psychoanalytical interpretations, but the connection between his self-fashioning of ideology and psychological conflict is open to further analysis. In...
In recent years, the field of mental health has witnessed a growing number of clients presenting with experiences that fall outside traditional psychological paradigms—namely, encounters with the paranormal or anomalous. These phenomena include, but are not limited to, apparitions, near-death experiences (NDEs), telepathic communication, precognitive dreams, and unexplained synchronicities....
Representing subjective experience poses a challenge for documentary practice, particularly for phenomena such as dreams that lack direct visual referents. This demo presents an AI-mediated workflow for transforming dream narratives into immersive VR scenes, in which AI generates candidate representations and human creators iteratively refine them through selection, rejection, and abstraction....
PURPOSE To describe a potential emerging neuropsychiatric adverse effect, abnormal dreams or night terrors, associated with atogepant (a calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonist) observed in 4 patients treated at a tertiary headache clinic, and to place these observations in the context of existing postmarketing pharmacovigilance signals. SUMMARY Four patients with migraine developed...
Dreams are sources of inspiration for artists tapping into their subconscious states, but the uncertainty of fragmented elements and difficulty of recall make it challenging to harness dream-based inspiration for creative work. Generative AI shares a similar ambiguity with dreams, producing unexpected outputs that offer reinterpretation in the creative process. It suggests GenAI may help engage...
Altered-state phenomenology around ketamine may relate to longer-term changes in imaginal processes, but observations across routine care are scarce. We report an educational case focusing on pre-defined dream motifs over time, without making treatment efficacy claims. A 48-year-old Japanese man with severe chronic primary low back pain reported dreams during insight-oriented psychotherapy from...