Dreams are a complex phenomenon which the philosophical field knows very little about. However, scientists like Freud or Jung, were able to prove that dream interpretation brings different advantages to our lives. For that reason, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that dreams, when understood, can offer us a new life perspective, especially in difficult times. Therefore, with the help...
The intuitive experience of dreaming is that we “see” something with our mind’s eye and react to it. Indeed, dream formation conceptualizations have often focused on the visual image-to-verbal thought direction of causality, inspired by bottom-up models of perception. However, despite being experienced as external to us, the dream environment is internally generated, meaning that dreams are...
Parasomnias are a group of sleep disorders that manifest as abnormal behaviour or movements while falling asleep, during sleep, or before awakening. According to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD-3), parasomnias are subdivided into non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) parasomnias. Main types of NREM parasomnias include disorders of arousal which...
This chapter outlines the rise of the performance of consciousness in play texts from the Middle Ages onwards, focusing on the key art movement of the 19th century of symbolism which concurred with the rise of the psychological sciences and a renewed interest in dreams. It explores how radical departures from the conventional tropes of the drama and storytelling facilitated the covert...
Consciousness has been proposed to be supported by electrophysiological patterns poised at criticality, a dynamical regime which exhibits adaptive computational properties, maximally complex patterns and divergent sensitivity to perturbation. Here, we investigate dynamical properties of the resting-state electroencephalogram (EEG) of healthy subjects undergoing general anesthesia with propofol,...
Dream research today assumes that there is a connection between dreams and waking life. However, the structural alteration of dream motifs in connection with the psychotherapeutic process and waking life has not yet been researched extensively. This study depicts the development of the new Motif Analysis and Phase Model (MAP), a dynamic method which allows research on the previous aspects. The...
Nitrous oxide use is shifting from general anesthesia to sedation and pain control. Interest in novel uses of nitrous oxide in psychiatry is also growing. Thus, understanding the consequences of using nitrous oxide remains relevant. Previous quantitative research might not have fully captured the whole spectrum of nitrous oxide, whereas qualitative analysis can provide a more comprehensive...
Often deemed a 'black box' resistant to scientific examination, the human mind challenges empirical inquiryparticularly in subjective experiences like dreams.However, objective empirical measures can indeed be applied to such phenomena.While there has been notable progress in understanding human dreams, the domain of sleep and dreams in non-human animals remains less explored.This review paper...
Michel Jouvet (1925-2017) is one of the most important figures in the contemporary history of the neuroscience of sleep and dreams, and one of the most awarded French researchers of the last century. Yet this former CNRS gold medalist and winner of the Cino Del Duca World Prize remains little known-not to say unknown-outside the field of sleep medicine, especially in non-French-speaking...
Some dissociative experiences may be related, in part, to REM intrusion into waking consciousness. If so, some aspects of dream content may be associated with daytime dissociative experiences. We tested the hypothesis that some types of dream content would predict daytime dissociative symptomology. As part of a longitudinal study of the impact of dreams on everyday behavior we administered a...