Authorea Preprints
August 18, 2025
De Pisapia, Stefano Mastino, Alessandro Grecucci
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Lucid dreaming, defined as the experience of becoming aware of dreaming while still immersed in a dream, offers a unique window into a state of consciousness characterized by a blending of the sensory vividness of REM sleep with the self-awareness of wakefulness. While past functional imaging has shed light on the neural activity supporting lucid dreaming, the structural brain correlates of...
University Library Heidelberg
August 13, 2025
Laura Roklicer
This study examined how lucid dreaming (LD) can be used for fiction writing during an 8-week intervention with 29 writers of varied LD experience. Participants received LD induction training and drew on lucid, non-lucid, and hypnagogic/hypnopompic dreams to produce a short story. Quantitative analysis compared blind ratings of pre- and post-intervention short stories across five creativity...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 28, 2025
John Balch, George Hodulik, Rachel Raider et al.
Introduction: The daily effects of supernatural-agent (SA) concepts on spirituality remain poorly understood. In this study, we focused on dreaming as an avenue to study the effect of SA concepts on spirituality. This work contributes to a long history of research linking together dreaming and spirituality by utilizing quantitative and longitudinal methods. Methods: We conducted an intensive...
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
July 26, 2025
C. Schede, S. Popkirov, A. Hartmann et al.
BACKGROUND Functional neurological disorder (FND) is often associated with trauma and dissociation. There is insufficient data on sleep disturbances and nightmare frequency. METHODS Patients with FND (n = 87) were compared with psychosomatic patients (PSM; mainly with affective and somatoform disorders; n = 97) and post-stroke patients (STR; n = 92). Questions focused on subjective sleep...
July 21, 2025
Frederick Thomas, Katelynn Andrews
The fundamental social motives framework has generated several empirical findings demonstrating the activation of a motivational system that guides conscious (live) cognition and downstream behavior in functional ways. This evolutionary view of motivation describes social cognition as an inner motivational state designed to recognize, analyze, and mobilize behaviour to manage social threats or...
Communications Biology
July 4, 2025
George Vagner Souza, Natália Bezerra Mota, Allan Kardec Barros et al.
The intricate interplay between visual perception and emotion determines how waking experience influences mentation through a 'day residue' at once conspicuous yet hard to predict. Here we set out to map the neural sources associated with the visuo-affective processing of the 'day residue' during hypnagogic sleep. To this end, we assessed 28 healthy participants on a combined nap protocol with...
iScience
July 1, 2025
Deniz Kumral, Jessica Palmieri, Steffen Gais et al.
Dreams incorporate recent experiences, and memory-related brain activity is reactivated during sleep, suggesting that dreaming, memory consolidation, and reactivation are tightly linked. We devised a paradigm to investigate whether memory reprocessing during sleep contributes to dreaming. Participants listened to different audiobooks before falling asleep, introducing dissimilar experiences to...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 1, 2025
Tore Nielsen, Jade Radke, Claudia Picard-Deland et al.
3 citations
Background: d cartoon series-the topic has only rarely been researched. Methods: We asked 1,082 participants to complete an online survey to test specific hypotheses on why people perceive that food affects their dreams, including whether specific foods influence dreams directly (food-specific effects), through physiological symptoms (food distress), or via altered sleep quality (sleep...
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
July 1, 2025
Amalesh S Honnekeri
Sleep Paralysis (SP) is a state that occurs during the hypnagogic or hypnopompic period in which one finds themselves unable to move despite being conscious. During an episode of SP, the individual experiences muscle atonia, as they would during normal sleep, but they remain conscious. SP is also largely associated with three types of hallucinations - the 'intruder', the 'incubus', and an out...
Consciousness and Cognition
July 1, 2025
Gulshan Kumar, Safoora Naaz, Nahida Jabin et al.
Studies on the electrophysiological and phenomenological aspects of dream experiences provide insight on consciousness during sleep. Whole night polysomnography (PSG) studies were conducted among 29 healthy young participants with high dream recall abilities. Dreams reports were collected during the second night by multiple awakening protocol. On the third night, participants were presented...