Qeios
July 24, 2023
Mark Titleman
This proposal incorporates three experiments concerning perceptual disturbances: one analyzing eye movement and associated electrical activity in hallucinating patients, another assessing dream recall in patients exposed to weak pulsed electromagnetic fields (EMF), and finally the examination of phosphene induction via transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and associated electrical activity....
AN-ICON
July 21, 2023
Federica Cavaletti
From its very origins, cinema has demonstrated a particular interest in the representation of altered states of consciousness: memories, visions, nightmares and dreams are a common feature of narrative films and usually interrupt a flow of events by inserting different temporalities in the present of the story. Following the arguments explored by Gilles Deleuze in his groundbreaking works on...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
July 18, 2023
Nicolas Garel, Julien Thibault Lévesque, Dasha A. Sandra et al.
29 citations
Background Psychedelic drug experiences are shaped by current-moment contextual factors, commonly categorized as internal (set) and external (setting). Potential influences of past environments, however, have received little attention. Aims To investigate how previous environmental stimuli shaped the experiences of patients receiving ketamine for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), and...
PsyArXiv
July 14, 2023
Norah Wolk, Daniel J Morris, Yasmeen Nahas et al.
preprint
People typically become aware that a dream was “just a dream” only after awakening. Alternatively, people can become aware that they are dreaming during the dream. These lucid dreams are thought to involve increased prefrontal cortex activity relative to non-lucid dreams, and they are associated with volitional control over dream content. Lucid dreams could be valuable for many purposes, such...
July 13, 2023
Nevill Drury
The astral projectionist would thus find himself sometimes engaged in a confrontation with ‘spiritual images’ in a fantastic drama, sometimes enacting very powerful cosmic ‘events’ which impressed him deeply at the time as being equally as true and valid as the phenomena of everyday reality. Sylvan Muldoon, who is best known for his book ‘The Projection of the Astral Body’ first published in...
July 13, 2023
Nevill Drury
The crucial stage had now been reached - the borderland area between sleep, and lucid dreaming or astral projection. The act of transfer was all-important. Modern occultists use the term ‘skrying’ for this type of activity. In essence it resembles the shaman-istic journey into the hinterland of the subconscious. Carlos Castaneda’s transformation into a crow now assumes special significance as...
Milli Folklor
July 3, 2023
Mayramgül Diykanbay, Moldir İlgi̇sheva
Physicians are the successors of Bakshis among Kazakhs and Kyrgyz and they have made themselves accepted by the society under the influence of the Islamic belief to continue their existence. They have also carried the remnants of Shamanism to the present day with its more traditional aspect. Bakshis, who call themselves physicians today, ask for help from God with their assistant jinns when...
The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review
July 3, 2023
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marielle Donié, J. Wichelmann et al.
ABSTRACT As is well known, dreams are still seen as via regia to the unconscious by many psychodynamic and psychoanalytic clinicians and researchers. Therefore, this article reports on decades of efforts to understand changes in manifest dreams in psychodynamic therapies as indicators for relevant, sustaining transformations in the inner object world of patients and to use them in comparative...
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
June 30, 2023
Katarina Ilić, Rita Bertani, Neda Lapteva et al.
11 citations
Background: The presence of visual imagery in dreams of congenitally blind people has long been a matter of substantial controversy. We set to systematically review body of published work on the presence and nature of oneiric visuo-spatial impressions in congenitally and early blind subjects across different areas of research, from experimental psychology, functional neuroimaging, sensory...
British Journal of Psychotherapy
June 30, 2023
Nadav Liam Modlin, Joanne Stubley, Carolina Maggio et al.
11 citations
The psychedelic state can be thought about as an interdependent intrapsychic, somatic, interpersonal and spiritual happening which encourages, perhaps both to the relief and dismay of those participating in the experience, the shocking and impressive emergence of one's unconscious desires and traumata's; a state which may be experienced as cathartic or healing, and as anxiety‐provoking and...