Quantifying consciousness from brain activity remains a major challenge in neuroscience and clinical practice. Many existing EEG measures focus on a single feature of neural activity, such as complexity, synchrony, or spectral structure, but no single feature appears sufficient across different brain states. We introduce a composite dynamical framework that combines three complementary...
Legado Onírico: Criatividade e Neurociência em Diálogo — A Scholarly Appraisal AbstractLegado Onírico: Criatividade e Neurociência em Diálogo (2026) offers an interdisciplinaryexamination of dreams at the intersection of brain, mind, culture, creativity, and AI. Publishedby Pod Editora, authored by Marleide da Mota Gomes, the volume proposes that dreamsfunction as biological, emotional, and...
We aim to explore and qualitatively compare individuals’ experiences of mental imagery during waking and dreaming consciousness in order to understand how these states are similar and different in phenomenological structure, focusing on the sensory modalities that are different or common between states. Additionally, we seek to better understand how absent or low waking visual imagery might...
PsychiatryJuly 6, 2026Rehana K Naik Olson, Lawrence Wichlinski
Neuroplasticity refers to the tendency of the nervous system to change structurally and functionally due to experience. The adult visual cortex was historically presumed rigid and unchangeable. However, recent research has identified residual neuroplasticity in the visual cortex extending into adulthood, which may be mediated by environmental factors including visual deprivation. Eagleman and...
This is a multidisciplinary cultural analysis of the Blaan-T’boli Dream Weaving tradition in Mindanao, Philippines and compare the Filipino culture and ethics - such as Kapwa - shared identity and Loob – relational will (for which there are no equivalent words in English) - to Western sociological and anthropological theories: Geertz’s ideology as a cultural system and social mapping; Emile...
This hypothesis paper proposes that psychosis preserves an individuals native cognitive architecture while disrupting reality attribution. Building on predictive processing, dreaming, and the Cognitive Languages framework, it suggests that the phenomenology of psychotic experience reflects the brain's pre-existing representational systems rather than a completely new mode of cognition. The...
Gaston Bachelard brings the forgotten classical elements of earth, water, air and fire back to philosophy in the 1930s and 1940s by writing at least one book dedicated to each of these elements. The elements are not at all what science, for example, chemistry says of them, but something experiential, phenomenological, imaginative, psychological and poetic as they inspire us to live, dream,...
Psychosis has been likened to dream-like mentation permeating waking, with hallucinatory experiences, flawed logic, and salience of one’s internal world over sensory perception. Some exceptional dream and sleep experiences have been viewed as representing hybrid states between sleep and waking, for example, dreams of falling/flying, dreams of awakening, lucid dreams, sleepwalking, hypnagogic...
Visualizing the human subconscious presents significant challenges due to its abstract nature. This paper introduces Dream Complex, an Augmented Reality (AR) system that combines physical models with digital interfaces to create a tangible, non-linear dream narrative. Based on psychoanalytic theories, we developed a 3D coordinate system categorizing dreams by emotion type, amplitude, and...
Background: A thematic analysis of ten clinical cases identified five recurring domains in dream narratives: threat, anxiety and loss of control; suppressed and repressed emotional experience; aggression, conflict and the threatened self; attachment, sexuality and unmet relational needs; and vulnerability, isolation and inadequacy. The present analysis examines the follow-up component of the...