CirculationNovember 4, 2025Sanam Alilou, Alexandria Salib, J. Kempe et al.
Background: Around, 10% of cardiac arrest survivors report vivid Recalled Experiences of Death (RED)— heightened lucidity, visual and auditory awareness, and a perception of a purposeful life review - which positively impact the quality of survivorship. However, these experiences are often labelled as hallucinations or dream like experiences. As Natural Language Processing (NLP) - a scalable...
DREAM’S GRAMMAR. IMPERFET ONÍRIC AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL STANCES IN DREAM REPORTS IN CATALANIn this article, we aim to examine dream narratives found in the Corpus Textual Informatitzat de la Llengua Catalana (CTILC), focusing on the interplay between two aspects: evidentiality and the narrative strategies employed to represent imagined events. We conceptualize dream narratives as a broad and...
AbstractA 35‐year‐old woman patient had an unusual dream with a catastrophic plot. The protagonist of the dream is a girl who lives on an island; she makes a wish that there will always be a sun in the sky. After that, 30 additional smaller suns appear in the sky, so that it never gets completely dark. Due to her wish, a strange phenomenon occurs: a huge black octopus emerges from the ocean and...
Abstract Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a fascinating state characterized by vivid dream mentation, quick saccadic eye movements, skeletal muscle paralysis, and autonomic arousal. Abnormal behaviors and experiential phenomena emanating from REM sleep, the REM parasomnias, can be mesmerizing and terrifying. These REM-related experiences include nightmares, isolated sleep paralysis, and the...
This Paper Offers the first comprehensive critique of the naturalistic psychological explanation that interprets near-death experiences (NDEs) as mere rereading or reconstruction of brain-stored memories. Physicalists claim that classic NDE features—out-of-body perception, tunnel experience, life review, luminous beings—are nothing but neural reactivation of archived personal engrams under...
Dream lucidity, the ability to recognize and reflect on one's dream state, has been linked to heightened memory monitoring. Although individuals with high trait lucidity often rate imagined and perceived events as similarly vivid, they nonetheless perform better in distinguishing memory sources. This study examined whether this advantage reflects greater subjective specificity, the retrieval of...
Background: End-of-life dreams and visions (ELDVs) are common and meaningful experiences for individuals trending toward death. While research has shown the positive impact of ELDVs on some psychological processes, there is more to learn. Objective: This study aimed to explore the differences in perceived self-transcendence between hospice patients who experience ELDVs and hospice patients who...
Bereavement and grief, particularly following natural disasters, can evoke a variety of painful emotions, including sadness and guilt. For some, particularly after a traumatic loss, the grieving process can become complicated, leading to significant distress. This paper explores the therapeutic function of grief dreams—dreams in which the deceased appears—as a tool for processing loss. Using a...
Abstract This paper explores the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in predicting emotions derived from dreams, a challenging task due to the complex and subjective nature of dreams. Emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, and anger are often embedded in dream narratives, and predicting these emotional states can offer insights into the subconscious mind [1]. We compare four machine...
The present study aims to capture the way in which the Romanian writer Dumitru Țepeneag deconstructs the myth in order to reconstruct it in the mystical atmosphere of reverie which is highly experienced by the main character of the novel Nunțile necesare (The Necessary Marriage). The theoretician of the aesthetic oneirism in Romanian literature proves to be a talented writer who capitalizes on...