bioRxiv Preprint Server
January 28, 2019
Daniel Kondziella, Markus Harboe Olsen
2 citations
preprint
ABSTRACT Background Near-death experiences have fascinated humans for centuries, but their origin and prevalence remain unknown. Methods Using an online crowdsourcing platform, we recruited 1034 lay people from 35 countries to investigate the prevalence of near-death experiences and self-reported REM sleep intrusion. Reports were validated using the Greyson Near-Death Experiences Scale (GNDES)...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
January 17, 2019
Santiago Castro-Zaballa, Matías Cavelli, Joaquín González et al.
Cognitive processes are carried out during wakefulness by means of extensive interactions between cortical and subcortical areas. In psychiatric conditions, such as psychosis, these processes are altered. Interestingly, REM sleep where most dreams occurs, shares electrophysiological, pharmacological, and neurochemical features with psychosis. Because of this fact, REM sleep is considered a...
January 4, 2019
A. L. Epstein
6 citations
Traditional Tolai society was structured in ways familiar in many other parts of Melanesia. M. Stephen has argued that such states — dreams, trance, and possession — played a highly significant role in traditional Melanesia, both as religious experience and as sources of innovation. Although anthropological interest in dreams goes back a long way, it has seldom been more than intermittent and...
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
January 3, 2019
Federico Zilio
Despite the theoretical and epistemological complexities involved in dealing with the phenomenon of consciousness, the author describes defines a pragmatic and experimental methodology, based on a two-dimensional neurocognitive approach. Indeed, in order to avoid the hard problem of consciousness, it would be better to focus on the real problem, i.e. on mechanisms that can be empirically...
NeuroQuantology
2019
James Paul Pandarakalam
Subjective sciences fail the cast iron scientific test of replicability and struggle to get acclaimed by the mainstream sciences. The world’s major faith traditions embrace the concept of a spiritual body formed in another dimension which incarnates into the product of conception while in the embryonic or foetal stage. The refoulement process has significance in the ethical discussion of such...
African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence
2019
Sarah Villegas, Sebastian Suarez, Joseph Owuor et al.
Five of the 7.2 billion people on earth have limited access to emergency and essential surgical procedures. The lack of safe, affordable and timely anaesthesia services are primary barriers to universal surgical coverage. The objective of this study was to assess intraoperative awareness when the 'Every Second Matters for Emergency and Essential Surgery - Ketamine' (ESM-Ketamine) package was...
Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies
2019
S. Schafer
We live in a world not of science but of science fiction. Like pixel patterns from unconscious software is projected onto a monitor, unconscious archetypal quantum patterns are projected as what Carl Jung called archetypal representation (AR). Projected images are then subject to the vagaries of personal perception, so it may be stipulated that no absolute reality exists for humans. Rather,...
Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice
2019
Mark Blagrove, Christopher L Edwards, Elaine Van Rijn et al.
Throughout history there have been reports and claims that consideration of dreams can produce personal realizations and insight. We assessed Exploration-Insight scores associated with discussing Rapid Eye Movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) dreams in connection with recent waking life experiences. Thirty-one participants were cued in the sleep laboratory for a daydream report and then awakened...
Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies
2019
Denis V. Lvov
C.G. Jung defined the concept of a collective unconsciousness (CU). Fundamentally, Jungian archetypes of the unconscious may be understood as quantum electrodynamic (QED) patterns that exist at deep levels of human individual and collective psyche. Unlike the concepts of Sigmund Freud, comparative research demonstrates that Jungian dream therapy—which is based on archetypal dynamics—accords...
Handbook of Sleep Research
2019
Benjamin Baird, Daniel Erlacher, Michael Czisch et al.
Abstract Conscious experience varies considerably, not only between wakefulness and sleep but also within sleep. Consciousness during sleep can be rich and vivid in its perceptual content but is typically poor in self-reflective consciousness/meta-consciousness. A notable exception is lucid dreaming: the phenomenon of becoming aware that one is dreaming while continuing to dream during ongoing...