Tom Stoppard’s ‘science dramas’ have been mostly associated with Hapgood (1988), where Spy games were interwoven with Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and Arcadia (1993), one of the most famous play, united mathematics, landscape design, literary history, and Chaos theory. But there are also philosophy plays, such as Jumpers (1972) and Professional Foul (1977), among Stoppard’s works. The...
Abstract Introduction Narcolepsy and Parkinson’s disease (PD) share many similar symptoms. Narcolepsy is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep attacks, sleep paralysis, and hallucinations, with or without cataplexy. Hypnagogic hallucinations occur while falling asleep and the person experiencing them typically knows they are not real. Here, we present a case of hypnagogic...
Revista de Gestão Social e AmbientalMay 23, 2023Fernando Campos Barbosa, Rodrigo Martins Tadine, Janaína Drawanz Pereira Rezende et al.1 citation
Objectives: Evaluate the available informations about dreams, analyzing hypotheses of the neuroscience and psychoanalysis. It is proposed to show discoveries of the dreams’ neurobiology as well as how psychology can explain this phenomenon, in order to observe an integration between these perspectives. Methods: For this literature review studies were selected (databases - MEDLINE, PUBMED,...
Magneto/electroencephalography (M/EEG) studies of dreaming are an essential paradigm in the investigation of neurocognitive processes of human consciousness during sleep, but they are limited by the number of observations that can be collected per study. Dream research also involves substantial methodological and conceptual variability, which poses problems for the integration of results. To...
The link between dreams and creativity has been a topic of intense speculation. Recent scientific findings suggest that sleep onset (known as N1) may be an ideal brain state for creative ideation. However, the specific link between N1 dream content and creativity has remained unclear. To investigate the contribution of N1 dream content to creative performance, we administered targeted dream...
Lucid dreaming is a rare phenomenon of consciousness emerging while asleep, most often during the rapid eye movement phase. It is estimated that over half of the world population have had at least one lucid dream in their lifetime and around one fourth report to have one episode of dreaming lucidity each month. Conscious dreaming happens when a dreamer becomes suddenly aware of being inside...
In this chapter, Jason A. Butler and Evan Sola provide a framework for working with the symbolic images, visions, inchoate sensations, intense emotions, and archetypal energies consistently evoked by psychedelics. The authors weave together Jungian and psychoanalytic theory and technique with psychedelic research and practice to articulate an imaginal model for psychedelic therapy. Using...
When do we die and what happens in the brain when we die? The mystery around these questions has engaged mankind for centuries. Despite the challenges to obtain recordings of the dying brain, recent studies have contributed to better understand the processes occurring during the last moments of life. In this review, we summarize the literature on neurophysiological changes around the time of...
A consistent body of evidence suggests that dream reports significantly vary from other types of textual transcripts with respect to semantic content. Furthermore, it appears to be a widespread belief in the dream/sleep research community that dream reports constitute rather ``unique'' strings of text. This might be a notable issue for the growing amount of approaches using natural language...
Trauma associated sleep disorder (TSD) manifests with trauma-related nightmares, disruptive nocturnal behaviors (DNB), and autonomic hyperactivity. Although patients with TSD frequently report DNB, events are infrequently identified during in-lab polysomnography (PSG), possibly due to a sense of safety imparted by a monitored environment. It is unknown if patients with TSD acclimate to the lab...