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October 12, 2023 Sasho Kalajdzievski
Cardano was a polymath who practiced medicine. In mathematics, he is remembered through his publication of formulas for solving cubic and quintic equations. He is sometimes credited with the introduction of basic probability theory. We present a summary of his adventurous life. Cardano was a mystic in many ways. Since his childhood, he ‘hallucinated’ various objects and scenes. He had frequent...
De Gruyter eBooks October 9, 2023 Carla Bruno 2 citations
This paper explores the language of dream reports of Ptolemaios, katochos “recluse” in the Serapeum at Memphis in the 2nd cent. BCE, particularly focusing on the pattern regularly introducing the dream: it includes ἐνύπνιον (as the word for the dream), a predicate of visual perception, and οἴομαι, which marks the transition to the dream narration. As testified by a long-standing tradition of...
October 8, 2023 Beliz Dora Yaldiz
We all know that strong emotions and significant events during the day can shape dream scenarios, but can music have a similar effect?There is a potential avenue for exploring this connection--for example, whether falling asleep to music generally improves our sleep, which would in turn influence the frequency of dreaming.Additionally, the valence of music (positive or negative) might influence...
Scientific Reports October 2, 2023 David R. Samson, Alice Clerget, Noor H. Abbas et al. 2 citations
The function of dreams is a longstanding scientific research question. Simulation theories of dream function, which are based on the premise that dreams represent evolutionary past selective pressures and fitness improvement through modified states of consciousness, have yet to be tested in cross-cultural populations that include small-scale forager societies. Here, we analyze dream content...
JAMA Network Open October 2, 2023 William G Mantyh, Adam D Block, Madelyn R Castro et al.
Visual hallucinations are a core feature of dementia with Lewy bodies and primary psychiatric disease, yet identification of a hallucination vs normal spiritual experience depends on cultural context. Almost no information exists in the medical literature regarding normal spiritual experiences in American Indian participants in the context of a neurocognitive evaluation. To assess the...
Film-Philosophy October 1, 2023 J. Dutton
This article interprets David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001) to argue for the morphological influence cinematic images have on modernity's monstrous identity. It shows how Lynch's tactic of interweaving apparently discrete spaces of dream and reality – one often inverting or uncannily ironising the other – relies on the virtual space of cinema, which leaves a mark on understanding,...
Journal of Psychiatric Research October 2023 Julia Kroener, Lisa Hack, Benjamin Mayer et al.
There is an unmet need for effective short-term therapeutic techniques to reduce clinical symptoms associated with prospective-, as well as retrospective aversive mental images across mental disorders. We investigated the efficacy of imagery rescripting (IR) as a short-term intervention across clinical disorders, as the literature suggests that this technique could be a promising intervention...
Resuscitation October 1, 2023 Sam Parnia, Tara Keshavarz Shirazi, Jignesh Patel et al. 64 citations
Cognitive activity and awareness during cardiac arrest (CA) are reported but ill understood. This first of a kind study examined consciousness and its underlying electrocortical biomarkers during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). In a prospective 25-site in-hospital study, we incorporated a) independent audiovisual testing of awareness, including explicit and implicit learning using a...
Religions September 30, 2023 Lenart Škof 1 citation
In this paper, I reflect on human imagination, the intention of technology, and the future of humanity in the era of the Anthropocene. I begin by presenting the environmental crisis and declare a need to protect and safeguard nature. In the first part, I offer an explanation of a dream of an airliner and link it to the Bachelardian theory of aerial imagination and oneiric flight. I show how,...
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies September 29, 2023 Areen Bani Ata
This study examined the tactics and components employed in Jordanians' dream reports to fulfil their communicative purpose. Drawing on Swales' schematic structure, six moves were identified. The opening move encompasses religious, formal, or informal greetings, often featuring a direct quotation from Islamic greetings. The second move involves the identification of the dreamer, typically...