Sleep
December 1, 2024
Garrett Baber, Nancy Hamilton, Jeffrey M. Girard et al.
Despite advances in sleep and dream science via neuroscientific methods, self-reported diary data (e. g. dream journals) remain indispensable for capturing theory-relevant phenomenological aspects of dreams including their emotional content [1, 2]. Manual annotation of such data; however, is time-intensive and typically requires human coders to be trained to reliability. To circumvent these...
Sleep Medicine
December 1, 2024
Ahmed Ali Khan, Ammara Abid, Maheen Nawaz et al.
Sleep paralysis (SP) is a rapid eye movement (REM) parasomnia that occurs during the transition between wakefulness and sleep. During this brief state, a person is conscious but unable to move or speak, often experiencing hallucinations. It is 'isolated' when it occurs without other symptoms of narcolepsy or sleep disorders. Despite its prevalence, much remains unknown about its clinical...
Cognitive Science
December 1, 2024
Eleanor Schille-Hudson, Kara Weisman, Tanya M Luhrmann
11 citations
Prayer, a repeated practice of paying attention to one's inner mental world, is a core behavior across many faiths and traditions, understudied by cognitive scientists. Previous research suggests that humans pray because prayer changes the way they feel or how they think. This paper makes a novel argument: that prayer changes what they feel that they perceive. Those who pray, we find, are more...
European Journal of Neuroscience
November 18, 2024
Athina Tzovara, Thomas Andrillon, Katrin H. Preller et al.
Understanding what makes us conscious is one of the major frontiers of science. There are two main approaches to the mystery of consciousness. The first regards conscious states (i.e., being conscious) and how certain global states (e.g., of arousal) can support the formation of any conscious experience. Insights into the neural processes underlying the capacity for consciousness stem from...
Performance Research
November 16, 2024
Augusto Corrieri
The act of dying can be seen as somewhat ‘irreal’, as Maurice Blanchot wrote, especially so when it occurs in the context of a magic show. In different ways, the performance of magic plays with the levels of reality of theatre itself, whilst at times conjuring the possibility of an afterlife, and communing with the dead. The essay explores the question of theatre and dying by examining UK...
Current opinion in pulmonary medicine
November 1, 2024
Serena Scarpelli, Valentina Alfonsi, Luigi De Gennaro
Dreaming has only recently become a topic of scientific research. This review updates current findings on dream studies, emphasizing recent research on the neural mechanisms of dreaming. Additionally, it summarizes new evidence on the functional role of dreams, including insights from studies on dreams and nightmares during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Recent advances on...
Vantage Journal of Thematic Analysis
October 31, 2024
Ayush Srivastava
This paper explores the role of dreams in fostering self-reliance through a comprehensive examination of psychological theories and contemporary research on dream experiences. Building on the foundational work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, it delves into modern perspectives from neuroscience and cognitive science that highlight the adaptive functions of dreams. Techniques such as dream...
Ideas of Possession
October 29, 2024
Marsha Aileen Hewitt
Abstract A comparativist approach in the psychoanalytic study of religion illuminates hermeneutic pathways to unconscious subjective experience. This approach contributes to recognizing and theorizing the culturally situated modalities of human suffering and the ambivalent nature of desire. A psychoanalytic reading of ethnographic case studies examines these themes as they appear through...
Religions
October 25, 2024
Gregory S. Sparrow, Ryan Hurd
The experience of inner light and ecstasy is widely accepted as a universal mystical experience, regardless of cultural or religious context. While one can read first-hand accounts in the historical record, the direct experience of light remains elusive for most people. This study analyzes a series of dream-based experiences of light provided by a single subject. In our analysis of 19 dreams,...
Ибероамериканские тетради
October 17, 2024
M. S. Burak
This paper analyses the poetic discourse in the work of J.R. Jiménez. Certain extracts from the poem «Espacio» and several verses from the «Eternidades» collection are concerned. Despite the differences in form and style, both prove the Time-concept to be relevant in the author’s work and show affinity in key points. All of them pass over the every-day life concepts. Thus, the author remains...