Clinical Neurophysiology Practice
2024
M. Bergmann, Birgit Högl, Ambra Stefani
Highlights • RBD presents REM sleep without atonia, EEG slowing, impaired functional connectivity, microstructural sleep EEG changes, among others.• During sleep paralysis there is a REM-wake dissociation - an intermediate state between REM and wakefulness, REM sleep or EEG alpha frequencies.• Nightmare disorder shows reduced sleep, increased awakenings, reduced SWS, increased respiratory and...
2024
F. Schulz-Nieswandt
If the basic creative mood is open to the world in active passivity, experiences of epiphanic events are also possible. Post-Cartesian responsive phenomenology can help to reconstruct this. Using a textual description of a surrealistic waking dream at night from "Weihrauch und Ziegenkäse. Syncretistic Stories" by Ulrich Kadelbach, this study illustrates this hypothesis. To this end, the author...
World Family Medicine Journal/Middle East Journal of Family Medicine
2024
Ebtisam Elghblawi
I have had for some years I can’t count, a daily terrible night experience, and so disturbing that I feared the night when it fell and released its curtain down. I knew that on sleeping it would visit me and would horrify me, causing extreme distress. It’s like witnessing death; I can’t talk, I can’t shout for help or scream or cry out. I can’t move, I can’t open my eyes, despite struggling...
Synthese Library
2024
Daniel Gregory
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is not to show that the answer to the question in the title is ‘no’, but to show that it is ‘probably not’, at least on one particular theory of memory. Assuming that an experience will only be an episodic memory if we are ‘disposed to take the relevant experience into account when judging about the past’ (Debus, Accounting for epistemic relevance: A new...
Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics
2024
Tarun Jain, Ashish Kumar, Vivek Kumar Verma et al.
In this paper, we embark on a groundbreaking journey to understand one of the most profound mysteries of the human mind: consciousness. Our approach is unique because we use a branch of mathematics called Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to explore the complex workings of the brain. Imagine trying to understand the shape and connections of a vast network of roads without a map; TDA helps us...
Metaphilosophy
2024
Alexandre Billon
AbstractAccording to a common philosophical intuition, the deep nature of things is hidden from us, and the world as we know it through perception and science is, just like a dream, shadows, or a computer simulation, somehow shallow and lacking in reality. This “intuition of unreality” clashes with a strong, but perhaps more naive, intuition to the effect that the world as we know it seems...
Interdisciplinary Studies in Society, Law, and Politics
2024
Faraz Tajallinasr
Symbolism and Surrealism, as two artistic and literary movements, aim to discover hidden and spiritual realities through the deep layers of the human mind and imagination. Symbolism, which emerged as a reaction against Naturalism and Positivism, believes in a reality beyond the perceptible world that is depicted through symbols, dreams, and imagination. Meanwhile, Surrealism, deeply influenced...
Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
2024
Lorenzo Bertolini, Valentina Elce, Adriana Michalak et al.
In the field of dream research, the study of dream content typically relies on the analysis of verbal reports provided by dreamers upon awakening from their sleep. This task is classically performed through manual scoring provided by trained annotators, at a great time expense. While a consistent body of work suggests that natural language processing (NLP) tools can support the automatic...
Cureus
2024
Konstantina Dimou, Agapi L Batiridou, Fotios Tatsis et al.
In the intensive care unit (ICU), patients often experience fragmented memories, primarily comprising dreams and illusions. These experiences can impact psychosocial well-being, correlating with post-traumatic stress symptoms and heightened anxiety. Understanding these phenomena is crucial for holistic care. To systematically explore patients' perspectives concerning the recollection of dreams...
SLEEP Advances
2024
Erin J. Wamsley, Tempest Trost, Matthew A. Tucker
2 citations
Robert Stickgold's research was among the earliest to rigorously quantify the effect of learning on dream content. As a result, we learned that dreaming is influenced by the activation of newly formed memory traces in the sleeping brain. Exactly how this happens is an ongoing area of investigation. Here, we test the hypothesis that participants are especially likely to dream of recent...