International Journal of Current Science Research and Review
March 3, 2021
Alexandria N. Lara
Dream imagery and frequency amongst individuals who are victims of amputation, depression, anxiety, trauma, and many mental disorders, have produced similar content results across the board of many studies. Specifics of other biological and physiological factors that contribute to such content are also examined in the data presented, along with specific case studies that have resulted in...
Dreaming
March 1, 2021
Marie‐Pier Vaillancourt‐Morel, Marie‐Ève Daspe, Yvan Lussier et al.
21 citations
Erotic dreams are common, but the ways in which they reflect waking day romantic relationships remain understudied. We examined the targets of erotic dreams reported by 470 men and 575 women in a romantic relationship as well as the associations between these targets and measures of couple and sexual life. Over 95% of all participants reported having erotic dreams. Women were more likely than...
Medical Hypotheses
March 1, 2021
Baland Jalal
Sleep paralysis is a curious condition where the paralyzed person may hallucinate terrifying ghosts. These hypnogogic and hypnopompic visions are common worldwide. They often entail seeing and sensing shadow beings; although hallucinating full-fledged figures (e.g., cat-like creatures and witches) are not uncommon. In this paper, I propose a neuroscientific account (building on previous work)...
Anesthesiology
February 26, 2021
D. Pal, George A. Mashour
Although the precise neural correlates of consciousness have not yet been identified, there is one neurochemical marker that appears to track with our capacity to experience something: acetylcholine concentration in the cerebral cortex. Cortical acetylcholine concentration is high during wakefulness, decreases during slow-wave sleep, and increases again during rapid eye movement sleep, when we...
Frontiers in Pharmacology
February 23, 2021
Michael Winkelman
62 citations
This review illustrates the relevance of shamanism and its evolution under effects of psilocybin as a framework for identifying evolved aspects of psychedelic set and setting. Effects of 5HT2 psychedelics on serotonin, stress adaptation, visual systems and personality illustrate adaptive mechanisms through which psychedelics could have enhanced hominin evolution as an environmental factor...
Current Psychopharmacology
February 15, 2021
Kenneth Blum, Thomas Mclaughlin, Edward J Modestino et al.
9 citations
During Lucid Dreams, the dreamer is aware, experiences the dream as if fully awake, and may control the dream content. The dreamer can start, stop, and restart dreaming, depending on the nature and pleasantness of the dream. For patients with Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) behaviors, like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Tourette's- Syndrome, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder...
International Journal of Dream Research
February 12, 2021
Michael Schredl
Nightmares in which the dreamer performs a criminal act and is terrified of being punished have been reported in the literature. Systematic studies of “breaking the law” within dreams, however, are still lacking. Within a long dream series of N = 11,808 dreams, 0.80% of the dreams included some criminal activity often associated with the fear of being arrested; rarely with the feeling of...
Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca
January 24, 2021
Giancarlo Grossi
This article examines the narrative identity of a new emerging medium, the virtual reality installation. In order to do so, the representation of dream states often presented in virtual art will be considered as a metareflexive model to be analysed in order to comprehend the distinctive characteristics of this experience. From this point of view, the study distinguishes virtual from physical...
Research at the University of Copenhagen
January 7, 2021
Ida Sophie Poschmann, Sabina Palić, Hinuga Sandahl et al.
6 citations
Psychotherapy for nightmares and sleep disturbances in refugees suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an unexamined area. This case study examines efficacy, acceptability, and patient experiences with Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) in 8 refugees with Middle Eastern background and PTSD-related nightmares. The aims of the study were to examine: A. if changes before and after...
January 2, 2021
Sandra Meiri, Odeya Kohen Raz
ABSTRACT This article proposes an historical reading of Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) that weaves a complex and puzzling narrative, swaying between the protagonist's dreams and memories (his involvement as an American soldier in the liberation of Dachau and the reprisals carried out there) and his concocted fantasy of revenge and heroism as a US Marshal. The purpose of this fantasy is...