Journal of Traumatic Stress
August 1, 2018
Geneviève Belleville, Mylène Dubé-Frenette, Andréanne Rousseau
Sleep disturbances are common among sexual assault victims with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for PTSD does not directly address sleep-related symptoms. Trauma-related sleep disturbances are associated with more impairment and contribute to the maintenance of PTSD. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of a combination of CBT and nightmare...
International Journal of Astrobiology
July 30, 2018
R. Wallace
Abstract The Stanley Miller experiment suggests that amino acid-based life is ubiquitous in our universe, although its varieties will not have followed the particular, highly contingent and path-dependent, evolutionary trajectory found on Earth. Are many alien organisms likely to be individually conscious in ways we would recognize? Almost certainly. Will alien consciousness require a ‘sleep...
IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life
July 18, 2018
Keisuke Suzuki, Warrick Roseboom, David J. Schwartzman et al.
Simulating phenomenological aspects of altered states of consciousness provides an important experimental tool for consciousness science and psychiatry. Here we describe the Hallucination Machine, ...
uO Research
July 17, 2018
Raphaëlle Robidoux
Dreams have been widely shared, analyzed, and explored for centuries. Throughout cultures and contexts, some dreams seem to leave a lasting trace on waking life, whereas other dreams are forgotten as quickly as they appear. This thesis focuses its efforts on the former category, known as impactful dreams. Impactful dreams are rare and distinguished by their effect on the dreamer’s thoughts,...
July 9, 2018
Kazimierz Jałowczyk
Imagination is one of the most important characteristics of human mind. The language of imagination is created by ideas and mental images. The activity of imagination is expressed by various notions such as fantasy, intuition, invention, narration, inspiration, stimulus, and dream. Imagination functions and develops autonomously in relation to the outside world. It is not subordinate to strict...
Cornell University Press eBooks
July 6, 2018
Anna Tsing
Adu hai, Riding the horse of gaps, babe.Swept by the wind, Riding the horse of gaps, friend. -Induan HilingThis essay presents several dream-inspired shamanic pictures and associated songs from the Meratus Mountains of Indonesia.They are a woman's work, and I ask in what way that makes a difference.
Frontiers in Psychology
July 5, 2018
Ragnhild S Lundetræ, Ingvild W Saxvig, Ståle Pallesen et al.
Objective: To assess the prevalence of parasomnias in relation to presence and severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We hypothesized higher parasomnia prevalence with higher OSA severity. Methods: The sample comprised 4,372 patients referred to a Norwegian university hospital with suspicion of OSA (mean age 49.1 years, 69.8% males). OSA was diagnosed and categorized by standard respiratory...
Psychoanalytic Social Work
July 3, 2018
Hanoch Yerushalmi
1 citation
Analytic literature suggests that to construct the deep meaning of patients’ experiences, supervisor and supervisee enter an altered state of consciousness and “dream up” the patients and the therapeutic relationships. Although this process enables them to connect with implicit knowledge of dissociated feelings and thoughts, it might also present some challenges. Sometimes, moving between...
Time and Mind
July 3, 2018
Charles D. Laughlin
7 citations
While discussions of meditation by psychologists tend to focus upon various forms of East Asian yogic practice, other systems of meditation occur across cultures. Meditation is defined in neuropsychological terms that allow the phenomenon to be examined in ethnographic situations. Anthropologists have found that meditation on culturally salient symbols is widespread among the world’s spiritual...
Oxford Scholarship Online
July 3, 2018
Gregory Shushan
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are indisputably part of human experience, known from accounts from around the world and throughout history. This book examines the role culture plays in how people experience and interpret NDEs, and reveals how afterlife beliefs often originate in such extraordinary experiences. It also explores the relationship between shamanism and NDEs. The book focuses on...