Dream sharing is a universal practice, and various incentives have been identified, including emotional processing, emotional relief, and demands for containment. Shared dreams can contribute to an individual's understanding of social reality during traumatic and stressful events. The present study examined dreams shared on social network sites (SNS) during the first COVID-19 lockdown, applying...
Objective. Lucid dreams (LDs) are dreams in which people are aware of the unreality of the events taking place and can influence the plot. People can experience lucid dreaming either intentionally or unintentionally and can experience different emotions and perceptions that can lead to psychophysiological consequences upon waking. In this study, we investigated the possibility of achieving...
The article is devoted to the story The Schizophrenic Gospel by Bohumil Hrabal and a little-known interpretation of this prose bythe famous Polish philosopher and theologian Józef Tischner. Plato, Hegel, Berkeley, Heidegger: these four names in Tischner‘s work lead to Hrabal‘s thinking and his gospel. The philosopher discusses in detail the specific perception of reality which according to him...
Abstract This chapter begins with a philosophical exploration of what Schelling means by “God-positing consciousness.” It then explains his theory of the “mythological process” which emerges from it. This process, which consists in the dynamic interaction of Schelling’s potentialities, or principles of being, unfolds in the human mind in a compulsive and dream-like manner. Schelling’s theory of...
Consciousness is experienced as embodied in the human experience. The chapter disabuses the notions that consciousness in Indian psychology is otherworldly and, therefore, disembodied. Indeed, IKS presents a nuanced conceptualization of three bodies. These three bodies are also seen in Buddhist texts. One of the three bodies is the physical body; the rest are the bodies in consciousness. The...
Objective. The arousal of consciousness during REM sleep can lead to states of sleep paralysis (SP), lucid dreaming (LD), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and false awakening (FA). We know that recurrent SP is a symptom of sleep disorders like insomnia or narcolepsy. This study hypothesizes that other recurrent phenomena related to SP could also be signs of sleep deviations like insomnia and...
The chapter begins with the text of a dream from a neuroscientist who studies what happens in the brain when dreams are produced, told to us as part of a sleep conference, and the painting of the dream and a commentary on its composition. Main content: This chapter addresses why people differ in how often they remember or recall their dreams. It concludes that the main reason for differences...
The chapter begins with the text of a dream which includes themes of lucidity and control of the dream, told to us at an event at the University of California Los Angeles, and a painting of the dream and a commentary on its composition. Main content: The chapter describes how lucid dreams are a rare form of dream because the metacognition in them seems to be fragile and short-lived, and because...
There has been increasing concern about the long-term impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as evidenced by anecdotal case reports of acute-onset parkinsonism and the polysomnographic feature of increased rapid eye movement sleep electromyographic activity. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and correlates of dream-enactment behaviours, a hallmark of rapid eye movement sleep...
Sleep paralysis is characterized by the incapacity to perform voluntary movements during sleep/wake transitions, and could bring great discomfort. During sleep paralysis, out-of-body experiences can occur. Out-of-body experiences refers to the sensation of being outside of the physical body and perceiving the world from this outside perspective; however, they are pleasant in comparison with...