Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) during sleep involve a transient disruption of bodily self-consciousness, in which the self or center of awareness is experienced as displaced from the physical body. Although OBEs have been reported in neurological, psychiatric, and dissociative contexts, they also occur in non-clinical populations, raising the question of whether their altered-self phenomenology...
Sleep remains a complex and only partially understood neurophysiological process, with current theories often fragmented across electrophysiological, metabolic, and phenomenological domains. In this paper, we propose an advanced and integrative framework that conceptualizes rapid eye movement (REM) sleep as a state in which the brain constructs a provisional dummy model of the external world....
Human beings navigate daily life by relying on a set of implicit assumptions about reality, assumptions so deeply ingrained as to appear self-evident. This paper examines ten of these assumptions, collectively termed naïve psychology, and demonstrates that each of them, when subjected to rigorous scientific and philosophical scrutiny, proves to be fundamentally mistaken. The ten beliefs...
.I study what is known about the extent to which group minds shape the content of dreams and suggest we can interact consciously with some group minds during the lucid dreaming state. Typical dreams are thoroughly social, typically depicting dreamer interactions with characters that represent the group minds he/she is a member of.
Scientific ReportsJune 12, 2026Derek H. Arnold, Loren N Bouyer, Merlin Monzel
Aphantasia was initially characterised as a pictorial imaginative deficit, but many people with Aphantasia also report having imaginative inabilities for other sensory modalities, such as for imagined sensations of audition, taste, smell, touch, and of body movements. Moreover, patterns of imaginative inability across different types of imagined experience are individually specific to different...
Vilbert Vallance observes, “Excellent, Excellent Article!” and “You bring clarity to those who grieve.. which brings comfort.” thank you chaplain Vilbert, India From the earliest history humans have had dreams of death and the deceased. The first recorded dream of the deceased dates from 2100 B.C. in Egypt: “Around 2100 B.C., an Egyptian man named Heni wrote a letter to his dead father, asking...
Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are phenomena in which a person perceives their consciousness as separate from their physical body. Although these experiences have been reported for centuries in spiritual traditions, they are attracting increasing interest in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and anthropology. This study aims to take stock of the issue through a literature review by...
Los cuentos de Jorge Luis Borges “El otro” y “25 de Agosto, 1983” tienen en común su carácter tardío y presentar un encuentro entre dos personajes Borges de distintas edades. La interpretación canónica es que los dos encuentros se dan en sendos sueños dobles; en cada caso, el personaje (más) joven olvida su encuentro, de modo que nada cambia en la (única) línea de tiempo de cada narración. No...
21 Feasibility of a Multicomponent Protocol to Promote Dreaming during Surgical AnesthesiaImage: A. Johnson, Vivo Visuals Studio.Implementation of a treatment bundle consisting of verbal priming, propofol infusion, electroencephalography-guided titration, 10 min or longer of minimization of stimulation, and immediate dream interviews resulted in a high incidence of reported dreaming. Apart from...
ON THE COVER: Dreaming during anesthesia is common and may have mental health benefits. However, systematic research on its incidence and outcomes in clinical settings remains limited. In this issue of Anesthesiology, Sikka et al. implemented a standardized propofol-based, electroencephalography-guided emergence bundle to facilitate a preemergence state conducive to dreaming, integrating it...