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...
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of various parasomnias in the general Norwegian adult population and explore their associations with insomnia, anxiety, and depression. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in September 2024 among 1002 adults (50.7% male, mean age 50.3), drawn from a large population-based sample from a national web panel. Participants reported lifetime...
Common Mental Disorders are increasing in prevalence across the world. Their treatment is challenging, as it often involves non-drug approaches that are not widely available. Dream interpretation has been used in psychotherapy for over a century, and therapeutic groups with dreams have shown promises in controlling mental health symptoms. Through a review of the scientific bases EMBASE, PubMed...
Reliably detecting consciousness in unresponsive patients remains an urgent ethical and clinical challenge, as no behavior-independent marker is currently accepted in clinical practice. We characterize consciousness as linked to a representation of the embodied subject of experience, mediated by multisensory integration within the peripersonal space (PPS) system. We test whether a neural marker...