The basic principle of folklore is constant—unveiling the hidden riches within the ordinary things of everyday life: a fine contribution to, and coordination with, the humanities. Examples are the study of the oral/orality; life stories of the obscure; practices of ‘hidden’ amateur musicians, studied ethnographically rather than through written scores or the ‘great’ composers; research by...
A lucid dream is a dream in which you are aware that you are dreaming. It is therefore a special case which is different from the usual dreams we are discussing. The primary aim is to narrow our focus on lucid dreaming to its relevance in clinical work, and to integrate the phenomenon into the overall theory of dreams as products of the Invisible Storyteller (IS) as well as provide some...
The fact that dreams occur when waking consciousness is diminished is one way of understanding Sigmund Freud&s;s dictum that dreams are the via regia to the unconscious. Most dreams are reported just prior to waking and the average dream lasts for several minutes. Although the phenomenology of dreams has been exhaustively catalogued, no overarching theory of dreams has been developed. C. G....
The dream communicates a symbolic narrative, but few modern dreamers can fully appreciate its significance without assistance. The day residue represents perceptions registered while awake that appear in the dream of the same night. Whereas memories contribute to dreams, there is little reason to conclude that when embroidered into the dream narrative that they refer to actual past events. It...
May 8, 2018Nigel Hamilton, Aaron Balick, Alexandra Chalfont et al.
In David&s;s initiation dream, he has a glimpse into the awakening ahead and finds that: "lights and colours of every hue are all manifest in this vast heavenly space". Darkness is acting as a veil protecting us from premature exposure to the hidden, psychic forces of our inner world. Mystical experiences of colour and light have in common the sense of attention and consciousness being totally...
When we dream, it is often assumed, we are isolated from the external environment. It is also commonly believed that dreams can be, at times, accurate, convincing replicas of waking experience. Here I analyse some of the implications of this view for an enactive theory of conscious experience. If dreams are, as described by the received view, “inactive”, or “cranially envatted” whilst...
Max Weber described modern culture as characterised by capitalism, rationalisation, disenchantment, subjectivist culture, and democratisation. Where Weber described and explained the disenchantment of the modern world, Jung actively sought to remedy it through bringing about a re-enchantment, and one of the principal ways in which he tried to do this was through his theory of myth. Briefly,...
What is your earliest unequivocal childhood memory and how old were you at the time? And how much might that and similar events around that time have influenced your life subsequently? During the Battle of Britain, in late summer 1940, when I was 6 months old, and for the next 18 or so months, my mother and I were evacuated to a small town in North Yorkshire, Selby. For some reason she always...
Student athletes are known to demonstrate high rates of common sleep symptoms. Less common sleep symptoms that are more prevalent in younger adults, such as sleep paralysis and hypnogogic/hypnopompic hallucinations, have not been studied. In particular, their role in mental health, independent of insufficient sleep duration or insomnia, has not been evaluated in this group. Data were collected...
Purpose of review: This paper describes a newly proposed sleep disorder, trauma-associated sleep disorder (TSD). Whether or not this represents a truly unique condition is controversial. In this paper, we describe the overlapping features and differences between TSD, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD). Recent findings: While REM...