PsyArXiv
May 25, 2020
Alexey Chizhik
preprint
This paper presents a method that allows a patient to distinguish whether a current experience is dreamt or real. The method is based on mathematical analysis of complex data that are generated by an external object (for instance, a computer or another person). High complexity of the data and possibility to quantitatively analyze it allow one to unambiguously disentangle dream‐reality...
May 20, 2020
Helen Bequaert Holmes
This chapter addresses Freud’s point about the unknowability of aspects of existence, such as dreaming and life in the womb. The chapter asks whether this is any evidence to support prenatal and perinatal origins of the formation of our God representations. The experiential work of the Freudian psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Stanislav Grof is discussed, linking the deepening of experiential...
Consciousness and Cognition
May 1, 2020
Emma Chabani, Marie Charlotte Vionnet, Romy Beauté et al.
At the extreme spectrum of consciousness during sleep, some patients with rare hypersomnias reported experiencing a specific night 'blackout' when sleeping, i.e., an absence of experiences or recall of them from sleep onset to offset. Thus, we explored through questionnaires the conscious experiences (dreaming experience, mind, self) during the night in 133 patients with idiopathic hypersomnia,...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 22, 2020
Dalena van Heugten-van der Kloet, Steven Jay Lynn
15 citations
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 22 April 2020Sec. Consciousness Research Volume 11 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00745
Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice
April 13, 2020
Michelle Carr, Karen R Konkoly, Remington Mallett et al.
44 citations
Previous experiments combining cognitive techniques and sleep disruption have been relatively successful in inducing at-home lucid dreams over training periods of 1-week or more.Here, we induce lucid dreams in a single laboratory nap session by pairing cognitive training with external stimulation.Participants came to the laboratory at 7:30 am or 11:00 am and during polysomnography setup were...
Anesthesiology
April 2020
Jesus J Ballesteros, Pamela Huang, Shaun R Patel et al.
Ketamine is a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist and is known for unique electrophysiologic profiles in electroencephalography. However, the mechanisms of ketamine-induced unconsciousness are not clearly understood. The authors have investigated neuronal dynamics of ketamine-induced loss and return of consciousness and how multisensory processing is modified in the primate...
Philosophy Compass
April 1, 2020
Jennifer Windt
Abstract Sleep is phenomenologically rich, teeming with different kinds of conscious thought and experience. Dreaming is the most prominent example, but there is more to conscious experience in sleep than dreaming. Especially in non‐rapid eye movement sleep, conscious experience, sometimes dreamful, sometimes dreamless, also alternates with a loss of consciousness. Yet while dreaming has become...
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
March 24, 2020
Miguel Ángel Sebastián
It is often claimed that a minimal form of self-awareness is constitutive of our conscious experience. Some have considered that such a claim is plausible for our ordinary experiences but false when considered unrestrictedly on the basis of the empirical evidence from altered states. In this paper I want to reject such a reasoning. This requires, first, a proper understanding of a minimal form...
JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
March 20, 2020
Y. Sawai
At Śṛngeri Maṭha, the center of the Śaṅkaran religious traditions, world renouncers practice ascetic training derived from the Advaita Vedānta philosophy of Śaṅkara, who has been traditionally believed to be the founder of this maṭha. Through their ascetic training, they intend to attain emancipation by deepening human consciousness. According to Śaṅkara, with the metaphorical discourse of...
M/C Journal
March 18, 2020
L. Piatti-Farnell, Emerald L. King
Dreams have fascinated human cultures and societies for thousands of years. What dreams are, what they look like, and what they mean have been the centre of discussions in a variety of contexts, across disciplines, and languages. The very notion of ‘dream’ entails, on the one hand, something unattainable, whimsical, and even fantastic. Dreams reside, perhaps by definition, in the realm of the...