March 20, 2018
Joseph Dillard
Dream Sociometry is an in-depth character and life issue interviewing protocol that is one aspect of Integral Deep Listening (IDL). IDL is itself a form of dream yoga, or a path to awakening from the dreamlike nature of reality, asleep or awake. IDL does not claim that life is a dream, only that it shares with dreaming the same common delusion that while asleep and dreaming one is awake. It...
March 15, 2018
Jennifer Windt
7 citations
Sleep is phenomenologically rich, supporting diverse kinds of conscious experience as well as transient loss of consciousness. Sleep is also cognitively and behaviorally rich, with different sleep stages supporting different kinds of memory processing as well as sleep behaviors ranging from subtle muscle twitches to seemingly goal-directed behaviors, as in sleepwalking, sleep talking, and rapid...
Neuroimage
February 15, 2018
Michał Bola, Adam B. Barrett, Andrea Pigorini et al.
Loss of consciousness can result from a wide range of causes, including natural sleep and pharmacologically induced anesthesia. Important insights might thus come from identifying neuronal mechanisms of loss and re-emergence of consciousness independent of a specific manipulation. Therefore, to seek neuronal signatures of loss of consciousness common to sleep and anesthesia we analyzed...
Sleep
February 8, 2018
Bernd Feige, Svetoslava Nanovska, Chiara Baglioni et al.
83 citations
Study Objectives: Insomnia disorder (ID) is a frequent sleep disorder coupled with increased risks for somatic and mental illness. Although subjective complaints are severe, polysomnography (PSG) parameters show only modest differences between groups. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep as the most aroused sleep state may be especially vulnerable to be perceived as wake. To directly assess possible...
Scientific Reports
February 8, 2018
Delphine Oudiette, Pauline Dodet, Nahema Ledard et al.
Breathing is irregular during rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep, whereas it is stable during non-REM sleep. Why this is so remains a mystery. We propose that irregular breathing has a cortical origin and reflects the mental content of dreams, which often accompany REM sleep. We tested 21 patients with narcolepsy who had the exceptional ability to lucid dream in REM sleep, a condition in which one...
February 2, 2018
Steve Tuber
The application of object representation scales to children’s dream material offers a means of looking at the relationship of object representations to the psychological, interpersonal, and psychopathological variables of the child dreamer. The authors reviewed the Object Representation Scale for Dreams (ORSD) and determined that it differentiated a clinically pathological group of children...
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
February 1, 2018
N. Fischer
An eighty-year-old man reports a recurrent nightmare involving a gummy substance being stuffed into his mouth and, despite his anxiety-driven efforts, being unable to remove it. A narrative of his neonatal years is developed and it is speculated that this nightmare is a rekindling of his very distressful breast feeding experience—an experience memorialized in his earliest pre-representational...
Africa
January 9, 2018
Amalia Dragani
6 citations
Abstract This article is built upon both an observation and a paradox. The observation is that the dream is nowhere to be found – at least at first glance – as a theme in Tuareg oral sources and ancient poetic tradition. The paradox expresses itself in the visceral relationship poets maintain with the dream, because oneiric inspiration – from the creative and visionary dreams of poets of the...
Neurophysiologie Clinique
January 8, 2018
H. Bastuji
Although brain activity has some similarity during paradoxical sleep and wakefulness, it differs in many aspects. Thalamic and cortical activities, time-locked throughout wakefulness and slow wave sleep, are different during paradoxical sleep, that of the thalamus being in the delta range while that of the cortex being rapid. This decoupling of thalamo-cortical activity may participate to...
Journal of Loss and Trauma
January 2, 2018
Elisabeth Lowenstein
2 citations
In this paper, the author, who is a single mother of a young man with mental illness, describes her son’s first psychotic break. By melding poetry, prose, dream journal entries, and medical case notes, she explores the embodied experience of witnessing her son’s decompensation. In sharing her story, she reminds other caregivers of people with mental illness that they are not alone. She makes...