Clocks & Sleep
June 26, 2025
Y. Tanaka, Yuichiro Otsuka, Suguru Nakajima et al.
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Worsening adolescent mental health is a significant social issue. Although dreams may reflect one's mental state, few studies have focused on adolescents. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between dream content and mental health, specifically anxiety disorder and depressive symptoms, among Japanese adolescents. This cross-sectional study obtained data on gender, grade, age,...
June 25, 2025
Mine Doğantan-Dack, László Stachó
Even though anecdotal evidence reveals them as ubiquitous phenomena, the performance anxiety dreams of music performers have not been studied systematically to date in scholarly research. This is all the more surprising given the large research literature on music performance anxiety as a wakeful experience, and the widely accepted “continuity hypothesis” in dream research that asserts...
June 16, 2025
Michael J. Winkelman
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This chapter provides a summary analysis of the diverse entheogenic traditions examined here, considering the model of the evolved psychology of ritual healing presented in Chapter 22. Key elements of this framework involve: Collective ritual involving a night-time group reunification Preparation through sexual abstinence and diet Performances of singing, drumming, and music Visions from...
June 16, 2025
Jesús M. González Mariscal, Genaro Guizasola Martínez
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The chapter presents an intercultural dialogue of knowledge production regarding psilocybin mushroom use among the Mazatec, a highly significant entheogenic practice of Mexico. The Chota Chjine, the wise ones, use Psilocybe mushrooms to mediate connections with the world of spirits to determine what disruptions of balance have led to illness and how to restore health and well-being. The Chjota...
June 16, 2025
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, María Del Carmen Macuil García
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This chapter examines the use of psilocybin mushrooms (known as teonanacatl or “the flesh of gods”) and Mexican tarragon (yauhtli, Tagetes lucida) for therapeutic purposes in Nahua medicine. These entheogenic substances are associated with thunderbolt and rain deities, part of a symbolic complex known as “the healing of the thunderbolt,” reflecting the influence of Tlaloc, the god of rain and...
Research Square
June 9, 2025
Kausar Raheel, Nazanin Biabani, Olga Ivanenko et al.
preprint
Abstract Background: Visual input is thought to influence spatial cognition and language. While blind individuals often rely on egocentric spatial representations, it remains unclear whether and how visual deprivation affects dream-related language. This study applied speech graph analysis (SGA) to investigate linguistic differences in dream reports from congenitally blind (CB), late blind...
Explore
June 4, 2025
Jenny Moix, Samantha Baldaccini, Marta Isern
Despite the growing body of scientific research on Out of Body Experiences (OBEs), a scoping review has not yet been conducted. A search was conducted across six databases. Studies published between 1987 and 2024 were included, resulting in the selection of 87 publications. The analyzed factors included deliberate inducing, predisposing, precipitating, consequential, phenomenological, and...
Journal of Scottish Philosophy
June 1, 2025
David Bartha
This paper presents and examines Andrew Baxter’s theory of the origin of dreams. In an essay of over 200 pages, he explores various conceptions and accounts of dreaming, develops a distinctive and elaborate theory of their occurrence, and arrives at the striking conclusion that all dreams are produced by external spirits or immaterial (ghost-like) agents. Remarkably, this extraordinary...
Colorado review
June 1, 2025
Andy Butter
Abstract: Sleep Study – The speaker contemplates a seemingly supernatural coincidence and how it might relate to his lover as well as dream consciousness. Goodbye All That Time – This poem explores the grief that arises from the lost time spent on social media, capturing feelings of regret and the magic woven into digital spaces. Times I Mistook People for Horses – A surreal and comic poem in...
BJPsych Open
June 1, 2025
Emeka Onochie, Joseph Verghese
Aims: Background: Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPDR), classified under ICD–11 code 6B66, involves persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalization, derealization, or both. Depersonalization refers to a sense of detachment from one’s thoughts, emotions, or body, whereas derealization involves perceiving the external world as unreal or distorted. These symptoms cause...