RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
September 1, 2023
Sana' al-Jamali
This study analyzes the narrative structure of “Hujra”, a novel written by Saudi novelist Amal Al-Faran, by delving into the main character’s consciousness and world of dreams. By exploring the character’s dreams, which reflect and express their real world, the study aims to dissect and understand the novel’s narrative structure. Additionally, the study seeks to comprehend the technical...
Romanic Review
September 1, 2023
Caroline E. Weber
The writings of the brothers Goncourt are eclectic to say the least, associated with schools ranging from naturalism to japonisme and with genres ranging from novels and plays to art criticism and biography. As Edmond, the longer-lived half of the duo, explained a year before his death in 1896, what unified these diverse efforts was his and Jules’s zealous “religion de la réalité, de la vérité...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 2023
Sabina Aguilera
AbstractThe northern Mexican Ralámuli people consider plants to be their kin. First‐ and secondhand ethnographies bring forth fundamental issues that convey the possibility of communicating with plants. For example, the notion of an interconnected world has to do with roots, with threads, and with thought or nátali (consciousness, remembrance, ancestral memory), all of which embrace the life...
Somnologie: Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin
September 1, 2023
Emma Peters, Daniel Erlacher, Friedrich Müller et al.
AbstractThis study aimed to investigate the efficacy of using hypnotic enhancement of auditory suggestion to induce lucid dreams in inexperienced individuals. Lucid dreaming, a state in which the dreamer becomes aware of their dream state, provides opportunities for personal exploration, sports, and clinical applications. However, the rarity of lucid dreams poses a challenge to scientific...
Flourishing Journal
August 31, 2023
Basa Dewangga Yuda, Gemma Gelvani Putri, Nadhif Skha Ramadhan et al.
The paralysis that occurs when waking up causes fear and anxiety, called sleep paralysis (SP). SP occurs between the stages of sleep and wakefulness. When SP occurred, the subject felt fully awake but unable to move, perceived with sensations such as chest pressure, shortness of breath, and hallucination of images of scary figures. The muscle paralysis that occurs in REM functions to protect...
Cognition communication discourse
August 31, 2023
Valeriia Nikolaienko
2 citations
The article presents a study on evidentials use in dream reports collected from online dream journals. First, I discuss the relation between the categories of stance and evidentiality. Specifically, I define evidentiality for the needs of this research as a semantic category that labels the source of information in the English language. Evidentiality encompasses perception, reportative...
Anthropology of Consciousness
August 31, 2023
Christopher Santiago, Melinda Kiefer Santiago
3 citations
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August 31, 2023
Eviatar Shulman
1 citation
This chapter offers a new scientific engagement with the idea of religious truth, suggesting that it is the prerogative of the scholar of religion to take emic ideas seriously and to be open to the possibility that religions access a true level of reality. So long as we deny any truth to religion, we are not scientific and only confirm our own assumptions. The approach suggested here emerges...
Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
August 29, 2023
Etzel Cardeña
Charles Tart was arguably the most important theoretician and researcher of altered states of consciousness (ASC) during the second half of the 20th century. His vast output included books and articles extending the frontiers of study of states of consciousness in general, and of the hypnagogic state, dreaming, meditation, hypnosis, and minor and major psychedelic drugs, among others. Rather...
Philology. Theory & Practice
August 29, 2023
Maria Danilovna Danchinova
The oral prose of the Buryats includes, along with other genres, stories about shamanic dreams, the uniqueness and originality of which are undeniable. The aim of the research is to determine the theoretical and poetic significance of this genre, the depth of the depiction of the national worldview. The peculiarity of these stories is based on the fact that dreams are narrated by informants –...