The Radha-Krishna tradition in South Asian devotional literature provides a significant space where divinity, love, and emotional intensity converge. Within this framework, Kazi Nazrul Islam reconfigures devotional expression through a sensuous and psychologically nuanced poetic idiom. His selected songs foreground Madhura Bhava as a devotional mode in which longing, anticipation, and embodied...
Dreaming is theorized to facilitate emotion regulation through processes resembling exposure therapy. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) now allow researchers to scale dream research by automatically estimating emotional content in dream narratives. However, prospective studies applying sentiment analysis to examine the relationship between dream affect and emotion regulation remain...
Abstract Rationale Narcolepsy often includes highly disabling symptoms such as hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis, which significantly impair quality of life. Lucid dream therapy and imagery rehearsal techniques have shown efficacy in treating nightmares, but their application in narcolepsy remains underexplored. Objectives To evaluate the efficacy of lucid dream therapy and imagery...
This article provides a comprehensive neurocognitive overview of dreaming as a complex brain-generated phenomenon. It examines the neural mechanisms underlying dream formation, including the roles of the brainstem, limbic system, and cortex. Special attention is given to sensory components of dreams, such as visual, auditory, and olfactory experiences. The paper analyzes the influence of body...
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams provides a complex and multidisciplinary research of subjectivity through the interrelated modalities of dream, memory, and identity within a diasporic context. Situated at the convergence of psychological inner conciousness and cultural displacement, the novel rearticulates inner experience as a dynamic site where personal history, unconscious...
Ghosts are a traditional element of any worldview. They create the plot of literary works, dreams, and even possess the ability to intervene in the course of historical events. Despite their diversity, they all come from the past, revealing it to the present.The authors of the article believe that ghosts inhabit the social relations of the metaphysical, dialectical, electromagnetic,...
Chronic depression associated with early trauma remains one of the most treatment-resistant conditions in mental healthcare. Clinical and empirical findings have increasingly suggested that patients with histories of early trauma may benefit differentially from intensive psychoanalytic treatments compared to symptom-focused or short-term psychotherapies. Our conceptual article aims to elucidate...
Dreams are universal yet highly idiosyncratic experiences. While memories and personal concerns are known to influence dream content, how such influences evolve over time and how stable individual traits shape dreaming remain unclear. Here, we systematically quantified the semantic structure of dreams in a large, multimodal dataset comprising 3366 reports of dreams and waking experiences...
When Mexico City was struck by the second most destructive earthquake in its history, residents of the city responded spontaneously, rescuing people from fallen buildings, administering aid, and transporting goods. This was referred to as “solidarity.” Solidarity has been the term used to describe post-disaster civilian responses in Mexico since 1985, when the most destructive earthquake in...
PsyArXivApril 24, 2026Pedro E Maldonado, Rubén Moreno Bote
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Consciousness is primarily understood as a personal, subjective experience that can co-occur with various other subjective states, such as visual perception, emotions, memories, and awareness of actions. Many of these experiences are linked to the activation of well-defined neuronal processes, with their anatomical substrates often clearly identified. In this paper, we propose that...