Abstract: Dreams have intrigued and fascinated humans for centuries, serving as a unique window into the human mind.It revolves around understanding how thehuman mind navigates the complex interplay between the real world and imaginative constructs within the realm ofdreams. Dreams are a unique psychological phenomenon where individuals experience a wide array of scenarios, emotions, and...
The purpose of this paper is to mathematically define cords of consciousness (CoC) and consciousness by the act of brain neural patterns, wherein neutral patterns represent synchronized groups of neurons. The outcome of neural patterns represents cords of consciousness. Conversely, the cords of consciousness exhibit neural patterns. Cords of consciousness represent the space of information...
Lucid dreaming is a unique state of consciousness where one is aware of dreaming whilst asleep, allowing the dreamer to control their dream content, offering various mental and physical health benefits. Existing research has utilised lab settings with manual induction techniques with researchers to induce lucid dreams, which is costly and time-consuming. Thus, there is a need for an autonomous...
Lucid Dreaming, a unique state of consciousness whilst asleep where dreamers can engage in volitional actions not limited by the constraints of the physical world and control their dream contents, offers various mental and physical health benefits. Current research combining multiple lucid dreaming induction techniques is often conducted in a lab setting, lacking autonomy by relying on...
Lucid dreaming, characterized by an awareness of being in a dream, offers individuals the ability to control dream content, which leads to various benefits such as entertainment, improved mental well-being, reduced concurrent nightmares, skills enhancement, creative inspiration, and problem-solving. However, manipulating dream content can be challenging and even experienced lucid dreamers may...
Background: Clinical case illustrations of patients with an impairment of personality functioning (IPF) have repeatedly reported that progress during psychotherapy is reflected by alterations in dream content. However, quantitative studies based on samples of psychotherapy patients are scarce. As a core component of both personality functioning and contemporary psychodynamic dream theory, the...
Sleepwalking and related parasomnias result from incomplete awakenings out of non-rapid eye movement sleep. Behavioral episodes can occur without consciousness or recollection, or in relation to dream-like experiences. To understand what accounts for these differences in consciousness and recall, here we recorded parasomnia episodes with high-density electroencephalography (EEG) and interviewed...
ABSTRACT The author proposes ways of rethinking the concepts of the unconscious and time in the analytic setting, including the very existence of the unconscious. Freud (1915) stated that the success psychoanalytic thinking has in making inferences about the patient’s unconscious makes the existence of the unconscious “incontrovertible.” The author submits that this success does not establish...
Lucid dreaming is a state in which individuals become aware that they are dreaming, allowing dreamers to actively engage in controlling their dream content and transcending the limitations of the physical world. Lucid dreaming offers various mental and physical health benefits. However, current research combining multiple lucid dreaming induction techniques is often conducted with the...
Perceptual reality monitoring refers to the ability to distinguish internally triggered imagination from externally triggered reality. Such monitoring can take place at perceptual or cognitive levels-for example, in lucid dreaming, perceptual experience feels real but is accompanied by a cognitive insight that it is not real. We recently developed a paradigm to reveal perceptual reality...