Recurrent isolated sleep paralysis (RISP) is a rare but distressing condition characterized by episodes of temporary immobility during transitions between wakefulness and sleep. This report describes a 30-year-old female presenting frequently with nightmares, sleep paralysis, and associated stress, successfully managed with a holistic approach incorporating yoga, meditation, chanting, and...
Integrated information theory (IIT) argues that the substrate of consciousness is a maximally irreducible complex of units. Together, subsets of the complex specify a cause-effect structure, composed of distinctions and their relations, which accounts in full for the quality of experience. The feeling of a specific experience is also its meaning for the subject, which is thus defined...
DMT reliably induces profound experiences of immersion in other worlds and encounters with seemingly autonomous presences, yet the lived qualities and unfolding of these experiences remain poorly understood. Using micro-phenomenological interviews with twenty-three healthy participants who received DMT during fMRI scanning, this study explores how these experiences arise and develop in...
A kaleidoscopic narrative of the history of not only psychedelic science, but also an extraordinary network of behavioral scientists cultivated by Margaret Mead that had a profound impact on the history of the 20th century, Benjamin Breen's Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychiatric Science will prove deeply fascinating to historians, behavioral...
Sleep ResearchDecember 17, 2024Emmanuel E. Egom, Teko Blaise Mbah, Suzanne Adolphine Soppi Ebango et al.2 citations
Abstract Background Sexual dreams represent a largely underexplored domain of human experience, particularly concerning their prevalence, frequency, and potential relationship with mental health conditions. Understanding this interplay may provide insights into the psychological and physiological effects of dream content. Aims To investigate the prevalence, frequency, and impact of sexual...
Drug-related dreams are defined as dreams experienced by individuals with a substance use disorder during the withdrawal or recovery process. Studies indicate that authors interpret all drug-related dreams as reflections of the attempts by individuals with addiction to fulfill their drug use desires at varying levels of satisfaction. The absence of an explanation in the literature regarding the...
bioRxivDecember 9, 2024E. Peters, Jakob Pöhlmann, Xin-Lin Wang et al.
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The connection between the dreamed body and the real physical body remains a subject of ongoing investigation. This study explored how the dreamed body responds to somatosensory stimulation of the physical body, aiming to shed light on the sensory processes that shape our dreaming experiences. We employed a novel within-subject design to compare the incorporation of three different types of...
This interdisciplinary research paper recombines Indigenous knowledges, postcolonial and new materialist theory, as well as fictional vignettes and drawings, to critically examine the biological synthesis of psilocybin through yeast. Against the backdrop of the “psychedelic renaissance” and consensus in the synthetic biology industry that generally, edited genes are “beyond containment”, the...
Dream analysis allows psychologists and their clients to see the life script, to be aware of injunctions, early childhood decisions, to meet feelings that could be so frightening that the psyche displaces them for years, while the unresolved conflict worries unconsciously and comes in the form of nightmares that affect the quality of sleep. Research of the possibilities of working with dreams...
Sleep is a state of total rest for the human body and mind, although vital organs remain active. One sleep disorder that has attracted attention is sleep paralysis, which in Indonesia is often associated with cultural beliefs such as the phenomenon of “ketindihan.” This study aims to examine sleep paralysis (ketindihan) from a Sufi perspective, specifically the thought of Imam al-Ghazālī, using...