Journal of Sufi Studies
December 14, 2021
Oludamini Ogunnaike
1 citation
Abstract This article presents an annotated translation of The Exposition of Devotions , a short text by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muṣtafā (1218–1280/1804–1864) about his spiritual master and maternal uncle, Muḥammad Sambo (1195–1242/1782–1826). Muḥammad Sambo was the son of ʿUthmān ibn Fūdī (also known as Usman dan Fodio), the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, one of the largest pre-colonial...
Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne
December 13, 2021
Agnieszka Trześniewska-Nowak
1 citation
Stefan Darda’s Dom na Wyrębach [A House in Wyręby] trilogy features the creation of an alternative world full of supernatural beings. Access to it is protected by nature. Wyręby constitutes an opposition (on many levels) to civilised Lublin. The characters arriving at the forest hamlet start to trust their intuition, believing in ghosts, demons and ghouls. In the space created in Wyręby, dreams...
Vestnik NSU Series History and Philology
December 7, 2021
А. А. Maslov
3 citations
The paper focuses on the Taoist concept of “dreams”, which is considered from the point of view of the meditative practice of “realized dreams” or “controlled visions”. Famous Taoist masters Chen Tuan (10th cent.), Ma Danyang (12th cent.), Bai Yuchan (12th cent.) and many others implemented techniques of “controlled dreams” as a type of meditative alchemical practice: erasing the frontier...
Sleep
December 1, 2021
Johan Natter, Taïoh Yokoyama, Bruno Michel
Study objectives: It is known that antidepressant drugs can induce sleep disorders in patients, but little data exist about high or low-risk molecules. The aim was to study the frequency of antidepressant drug-induced sleep disorders (DISD) by molecule. Methods: 77,391 patient comments for 32 antidepressant drugs were collected from drug review websites and screened for DISD. Association...
December 1, 2021
Shane McCorristine
This chapter presents the results of a study, by the writers, of their own dreams and of the dream-records of four fellow students. The observations followed the general plan outlined by Miss Calkins, and this description of them lays special stress only on experiences which confirm her conclusions on disputed points or which contradict her results. The dreams were recorded during periods of...
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
December 1, 2021
Devon E Hinton
At a psychiatric refugee clinic for survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide, a survey revealed that 42% (38/90) had auditory hallucinations (AHs) in the last month. Of those with AHs, 87% (33/38) had PTSD, whereas of those without AHs, 31% (16/52) had PTSD, giving a chi square of 27.8, p < .001, odds ratio 14.8 (4.8-45). Most AHs were of a "ghost summoning" (khmaoch hao), considered an...
Sleep Medicine
December 1, 2021
Michael Raduga
5 citations
Lucid dreams (LDs) occur when people become aware that they are dreaming. This phenomenon has a wide range of possible applications from the perspectives of psychology, training physical movements, and controlling computers while asleep, among others. However, research on LDs might lack efficiency because the standard LD verification protocol uses polysomnography (PSG), which requires an...
Religions
November 25, 2021
Arik Moran
5 citations
This paper examines the benefits of ethnographic film for the study of religion. It argues that the exploration of gaps between colloquial descriptions of divinities and their practical manifestation in ritual is instructive of the way religious categories are conceptualized. The argument is developed through an analysis of selected scenes from the documentary AVATARA, a meditation on goddess...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
November 24, 2021
Kshama Gupta, Prasad Mamidi
4 citations
Background: Kashyapa Samhita (KS) is a very well known ancient Ayurvedic manuscript considered as the hand book of Kaumarabhritya (paediatrics).KS consists of 120 chapters divided among 8 Sthanas' (sections) with one additional part known as Khila Sthana which consists of 80 chapters.Kashyapa Samhita Indriya Sthana (KSIS) consists of 12 chapters and it deals with prognostic aspects.Only the...
Clocks & Sleep
November 24, 2021
Michael Schredl
Many dream content analytic studies focus on dream characters, animals, social interactions and so on, but they rarely analyze the frequency of everyday objects in dreams. In the present paper, the frequency and phenomenology of clock dreams in a dream series of 12,476 dreams of a single male dreamer was analyzed. The clock dreams (0.74% of all dreams) show a variety of contexts not only...