This paper documents a multi-year self-observation project on lucid dreaming, systematically recording and analyzing the characteristics of dream flow, consciousness control, and subjective experience during the lucid dream state. The work provides a first-person phenomenological analysis of lucid dreams, exploring patterns in dream clarity, stability, and volitional control. This paper...
This chapter explores the cosmological continuities between traditional Naga shamanic practices and Christian faith healing in Nagaland, challenging dominant narratives of rupture and religious transformation in the wake of Christian conversion. While missionary accounts and contemporary church discourses often depict Christianity as a radical break from Indigenous spiritual systems, this...
Aims: REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is characterised by loss of physiological REM atonia, resulting in dream-enactment behaviours that may be violent and pose significant risk to patients and bed partners. RBD may be idiopathic, secondary to neurological disease, or medication-induced. Medications, including antidepressants and sedative-hypnotics, have been implicated in precipitating or...
ABSTRACT This article examines Mexicanidad—an urban movement linked to Danza Azteca—as a contemporary reanimation of the Aztec past through ritual, discipline, and embodied memory. Based on long‐term ethnographic research in central Mexico (2009–2017), it argues that practitioners generate counter‐histories through ritual, moral labor, and visionary experience, treating oral transmission as the...
Abstract My article examines a single, capacious piece of evidence – a dream recorded by the modernist Russian-Jewish poet Samuil Kissin (1885–1916) in a wartime notebook – and asks what that record reveals about Jewish experience and self-identification on the Eastern Front during WW1. I situate Kissin’s dream in its local historical context of expulsions, (self-)censorship, and widespread...
Suicidal behaviors-including suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and suicide deaths-represent a major global health concern. Identifying proximal, modifiable risk factors is crucial to improve early detection and prevention. Sleep disturbances have emerged as proximal and modifiable risk factor for suicide, yet their role is often underestimated in clinical practice. This chapter synthesizes...
Sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder (SRRMD) is uncommon in adults. It can closely mimic nocturnal epilepsy and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD), creating significant diagnostic challenges. We report the case of a man in his mid-20s presenting with chief complaints of nightly head movements during sleep occurring multiple times each night. He intentionally shook his...
Dreams constitute one of the most universal and, at the same time, most complex phenomena of human psychological experience. Over more than a century, the study of dreams has evolved from interpretations centered on universal symbols and unconscious contents toward cognitive, neuroscientific, and sociocultural approaches. The present article integrates recent findings on the nature of dreams...
Hyperonirism, or "epic dreaming," is an emerging clinical phenomenon characterized by excessive, vivid, and continuous dream activity associated with non-restorative sleep and daytime fatigue. Despite historical descriptions, it remains poorly defined and unrecognized by current nosological systems. We describe four patients assessed in expert sleep and psychiatry centers, presenting with...
A proportion of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) continue to experience disabling symptoms despite standard serotonergic treatment, antipsychotic augmentation, and psychological input. Contamination-focused OCD can be especially persistent when rituals are embedded in the home environment and reinforced by family patterns. Recent work has drawn attention to glutamatergic...