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Routledge eBooks September 7, 2017 William Oliver Stevens
The fact that a vexing problem, which has defied solution in waking consciousness, sometimes finds an answer in sleep has been well known to psychologists for a long time. Condorcet, the brilliant French philosopher and mathematician of the eighteenth century, found in a dream the solution to a mathematical problem on which he had been struggling in vain for a long time. In the biography of the...
September 7, 2017 Charles N. Alexander, Robert W. Cranson, Robert W. Boyer et al. 21 citations
This chapter introduces a fourth major state of consciousness--transcendental consciousness--to distinguish it from the states of deep sleep, dreaming, including lucid dreaming, and waking, and to suggest its role in a model of human development to higher states of consciousness. The experience of the fourth state of consciousness has been described and its physiological correlates have been...
September 7, 2017 Alan R. Moffitt, Robert Hoffmann 4 citations
This chapter reviews the current state of knowledge and opinion concerning the psychophysiological study of dreams, dreaming, and dreamers. This can be done simply and briefly. There is an emerging consensus that the scientific study of dreams has not lived up to the potential that motivated much of the research following the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in 1953. Mental activity...
September 6, 2017 Robert Langs
Down through the ages, people have suspected that dreams and emotional symptoms, phobias, anxiety, depression, obsessions, problems in relating to others, psychologically founded physical ailments, and so forth, are in some way linked. Many ancient cultures practiced dream incubation rituals for healing purposes, attempting to cultivate dreams that would address the reasons for inexplicable...
Pediatric annals September 1, 2017 Vijayabharathi Ekambaram, Kiran Maski
Parasomnia is a common pediatric sleep disorder that can cause parents or caregivers distress when experienced by their children. Based on the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, parasomnias can be divided into two subgroups: non-rapid eye movement (NREM) parasomnias and rapid eye movement (REM) parasomnias. REM sleep parasomnias include nightmares, REM behavior disorder, and sleep...
I Tatti Studies September 1, 2017 Jacomien Prins 1 citation
Between 1936 and 1941, Carl Gustav Jung presented a seminar on children’s dreams and the historical literature on dream interpretation in Zurich. As part of the seminar Jung analysed twelve dreams of Girolamo Cardano. These sessions do not only give an insight into Jungian dream interpretation in practice, but also demonstrate how Jung used Cardano’s dream reports to corroborate his ideas about...
Dreaming September 1, 2017 Denholm Jay Adventure-Heart, Paul Delfabbro, Michael Proeve et al. 28 citations
Lucid dreaming is a learnable skill and has a wide range of potential applications. However, research in this area has been limited by a lack of effective and reliable lucid dream induction techniques. The present study provides a thorough investigation into 3 of the most promising cognitive lucid d
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) August 29, 2017 Isabelle Arnulf, Louis Marrou 2 citations
Several studies have shown that daytime geographic locations are more frequently incorporated into the dreams of the next two nights, but also after a 7 days delay. We analyzed the dream locations in 680 dream reports longer than 20 words recorded over a calendar year in a single geographer subject, and compared them with the exhaustive, concomitant daytime log of the 122 cities he visited...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego eBooks August 29, 2017 Natalia Poleszak
The article treats about the issue of erotic oneirology in Kazimierz Tetmajer’s lyric poetry. Eroticdreams indicate transgressive dimension of the oneiric space and reveal most intimate desires of Tetmajer’sdreaming lyrical ego. “Transcending to the other”, the desire to commune spiritually and quasi-somaticallywith the idealised, ethereal mistress is the most important feature of the discussed...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego eBooks August 29, 2017 Monika Kusek-Dyja
Hypnagogia is the moment which exists between an awakening and the sleep, in which we perceiveand feel everything as if we were still awake. As the presence of someone is appeared, we listen to voices,but can neither speak nor move. It is the moment of the hypnagogia or transition between the wakeningand the sleep. Józef Kraszewski has also feeling of this terrifying experience, which is...