Current treatments for rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder are not always effective and can lead to dose-limited adverse events, and new treatments are needed for this condition. We present a case of a patient with treatment-refractory isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder who had a dramatic and sustained improvement in dream enactment behaviors using oral tinctures...
Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a common consequence of the amputation of a limb. Individuals with congenital limb absence (here: congenital amputees), however, seem to rarely experience PLP. Previous results suggest that the experience of PLP in the waking state affects the recalled body appearance in dreams of individuals with acquired limb amputation, with PLP being associated with the recall of...
This paper proposes the "4D Consciousness Hypothesis," suggesting that time is not a unidirectional linear flow but rather a Time Field influenced by both gravity and consciousness, within which multiple timelines coexist and intersect. While traditional physics acknowledges that time can be altered by gravity through special and general relativity, it does not adequately explain phenomena such...
Abstract This preliminary study investigates the potential for a technique that enables purposeful guiding of dream content (Targeted Dream Incubation; TDI) to change the degree to which an individual feels in control of their dreams (Dream Self-Efficacy; DSE). DSE is a subset of a larger concept of self-efficacy relating to one’s belief in their own abilities and competencies. Examining DSE...
The mythic text of Genesis 28:10–22 can be approached using literary and psychological perspectives. The text – which contains Jacob's dream – lends itself to being treated as a ‘dream’ in which free association and close reading allows the reader into its inner dimensions. The verses of the dream hold a tension between inner and outer reality: the ladder is a symbol of interconnectedness...
Hypnagogic hallucinations are visual, auditory, tactile, or other sensory events that are not actually present, experienced during hypnagogia, a period of transition from wakefulness to sleep. These hallucinations were reported to be brief and mostly visual in nature. We hereby report a rare incidence of this phenomenon occurring in a 61-year-old woman presented with impending Ludwig’s angina...
Since its synthesis in 1962, ketamine has been widely used in diverse medical contexts, from anesthesia to treatment-resistant depression. However, interpretations of ketamine's subjective effects remain polarized. Biomedical frameworks typically construe the drug's experiential effects as dissociative or psychotomimetic, while psychedelic paradigms emphasize the potential therapeutic merits of...
This article suggests a new point of view on Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov’s sophiology. The concept of Sophia has often been described as an artificial element in Bulgakov’s views, its emergence has been explained by different “influences”, e.g. of Vladimir Solovyov, Gnosticism, rationalist philosophy etc. This article, on the contrary, argues that the concept of Sophia was Bulgakov’s solution to...
Dream narratives provide a unique window into human cognition and emotion, yet their systematic analysis using artificial intelligence has been underexplored. We introduce DreamNet, a novel deep learning framework that decodes semantic themes and emotional states from textual dream reports, optionally enhanced with REM-stage EEG data. Leveraging a transformer-based architecture with multimodal...
This article reconsiders literature’s capacity to express and evoke spiritual experiences by turning to William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience, especially his discussion of mysticism and his suggestion that poetry can bring about such states. James’s ideas are especially promising given recent developments in postsecular and postcritical scholarship that problematize a...