Journal of Parapsychology
December 1, 2023
A Gathering of Consciousness Explorers Celebrating half a century of Remote Viewing, OBEs and Consciousness ExplorationsThe Monroe Institute is the world leader in human consciousness exploration, offering life-changing training and audio technologies to millions around the globe.The International Remote Viewing Association is one of the few professional organizations in the world designed to...
Journal of General Internal Medicine
December 1, 2023
Evan A Balmuth, Thomas E Scammell
Harriet Tubman, a hero of the abolitionist movement and early civil rights advocate, suffered a head injury in childhood and subsequently developed sleep attacks associated with visions that were extensively documented in historical accounts. Her contemporaries perceived these visions together with unpredictable and unavoidable urges to sleep as manifestations of her deep faith, rather than as...
SoftwareX
December 1, 2023
Mahdad Jafarzadeh Esfahani, Amir Hossein Daraie, Paul Zerr et al.
We introduce Dreamento (Dream engineering toolbox), an open-source Python package for dream engineering using sleep electroencephalography (EEG) wearables. Dreamento main functions are (1) recording, real-time monitoring, analysis, and sensory stimulation, and (2) offline post-processing of the resulting data, both in a graphical user interface. In real-time, Dreamento is capable of (1) data...
Sleep Science
December 1, 2023
Michael Raduga, Andrey Shashkov
1 citation
Objective When metacognition arises during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, people experience lucid dreaming (LD). Studies on this phenomenon face different obstacles. For example, its standard verification protocol requires at least three types of sensors. We hypothesized that preagreed frontalis movements (PAFMs), as a sign of lucidity, could be seen on electroencephalography (EEG) during REM...
European Psychiatry
November 17, 2023
L. Fernandez Mayo, D. Baño Rodrigo, E. Barbero García et al.
Introduction While it is well known that there is an interaction between sleep disorders and substance abuse, it is certainly more complex than was previously thought. The effects on sleep depend on the substance used, but it has been shown that both during use and in withdrawal periods consumers have various sleep problems, and basically more fragmented sleep. We know that sleep problems must...
European Psychiatry
November 17, 2023
G. Simões, S. Jesús, R. Silva
Introduction The overlap between imagery and perception has long fascinated philosophers and scientists. Many scientists considered how the mind is capable of constructing an internal world without intervention of the external environment. Descriptions of their core characteristics often draw attention to differential features, but other currents reveal that many of these are shared rather than...
Sleep
November 16, 2023
Péter Simor, Bertalan Polner, Noémi Báthori et al.
9 citations
Mind-wandering is a mental state in which attention shifts from the present environment or current task to internally driven, self-referent mental content. Homeostatic sleep pressure seems to facilitate mind-wandering as indicated by studies observing links between increased mind-wandering and impaired sleep. Nevertheless, previous studies mostly relied on cross-sectional measurements and...
Scientific Reports
November 9, 2023
Francisco T Gallo, Ignacio Spiousas, Nerea L Herrero et al.
5 citations
Dreaming is a complex phenomenon that occurs during sleep, involving various conscious dream experiences. Lucid dreams (LDs) involve heightened awareness within the dream environment, while out-of-body experiences (OBEs) involve the sensation of being outside one's physical body. OBEs occur during sleep paralysis (SP), where voluntary movements are inhibited during sleep/wake transitions while...
PsyArXiv
November 7, 2023
Mika Turkia
2 citations
preprint
Following advice received in a dream, a woman in her early thirties, suffering from depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders caused by complex trauma in her childhood, experimented with 'microdosing' or psycholytic dosing of Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) mushrooms. During a 3.5-month period with an intuition-based, gradually declining dosing scheme, her symptoms significantly decreased. No...
Cureus
November 2023
Sultan M Alshahrani, Razan A Albrahim, Jana K Abukhlaled et al.
Background and aim Parasomnias are a group of sleep-related movements or emotions like sleepwalking, sleep talking, teeth grinding (Bruxism), nocturnal enuresis (sleep enuresis), sleep terrors (night terrors), sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), nightmare disorder, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD), and confusional arousals. Parasomnias are more common in children than in adults. This study...