Journal of Religion and Health
December 1, 2016
Claude‐Hélène Mayer, Rian Viviers, Aden-Paul Flotman et al.
Exceptional human experiences (EHEs) impact on health and well-being and can contribute to enhanced intercultural and interreligious awareness and understanding. The aim of this longitudinal study was to explore the development of EHEs in a group of senior professionals in the German Catholic Church. Exceptional human experiences were measured through the EEQ in pre- and post-test...
History and Theory
December 1, 2016
Béatrice Han‐pile
ABSTRACTIn this article, I examine the relation between phenomenology and anthropology by placing Foucault's first published piece, “Introduction to Binswanger's Dream and Existence“ in dialectical tension with The Order of Things. I argue that the early work, which so far hasn't received much critical attention, is of particular interest because, whereas OT is notoriously critical of...
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
November 14, 2016
M. Líšková, Denisa Janečková, Lucie Klůzová Kráčmarová et al.
The aim of the present study was to assess the occurrence and predictive factors of sleep paralysis (SP) in Czech university students. Our sample included 606 students who had experienced at least one episode of SP. The participants completed an online battery of questionnaires involving questionnaires focused on describing their sleep habits and SP episodes, the 18-item Boundary Questionnaire...
Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders
November 1, 2016
Brian A Sharpless, Dan Denis
Isolated sleep paralysis involves the juxtaposition of certain aspects of REM sleep (e.g., muscle atonia, dream activity) with waking consciousness. It is a terrifying phenomenon that has played an important role in many supernatural and folkloric beliefs. Isolated sleep paralysis is also a surprisingly common phenomenon in the general population, with higher rates found among students and...
Philosophy Study
October 28, 2016
Bradley Y. Bartholomew
This paper presents an original interpretation of the Upanishads that the inner self is located in the embryo brain region of the brain.This is the part of the brain already present in the embryo and consists of the brainstem, hypothalamus, thalamus, and midbrain.It is also the part of the brain that operates during dreaming and deep sleep and causes the transition from sleeping to waking...
arXiv (Cornell University)
October 6, 2016
Kieran C. R. Fox, Manesh Girn
preprint
Humans have been aware for thousands of years that sleep comes in many forms, accompanied by different kinds of mental content. We review the first-person report literature on the frequency and type of content experienced in various stages of sleep, showing that different sleep stages are dissociable at the subjective level. We then relate these subjective differences to the growing literature...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 5, 2016
Edgar Altszyler, Mariano Sigman, Sidarta Ribeiro et al.
preprint
Word embeddings have been extensively studied in large text datasets. However, only a few studies analyze semantic representations of small corpora, particularly relevant in single-person text production studies. In the present paper, we compare Skip-gram and LSA capabilities in this scenario, and we test both techniques to extract relevant semantic patterns in single-series dreams reports. LSA...
September 1, 2016
G. Rolla
Based on Pritchard’s distinction (2012, 2016) between favoring and discriminating epistemic grounds, and on how those grounds bear on the elimination of skeptical possibilities, I present the dream argument as a moderate skeptical possibility that can be reasonably motivated. In order to block the dream argument skeptical conclusion, I present a version of phenomenological disjunctivism based...
FreiDok plus
August 19, 2016
Alina Noveski, Michael Schredl, Anja S. Göritz
5 citations
There have been many recent studies that proofed the continuity hypothesis which suggests that dream content reflects waking life experiences. This study investigated factors that affect the frequency of sport and politics dreams. The online survey (N=2929 German speaking participants) showed a prevalence of about 6% sport dreams and 4% politics dreams. Results indicated that younger and male...
Swiss Archives of Neurology Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
August 10, 2016
Andreas Johann Steck, Barbara Steck
3 citations
A comprehensive and coherent picture of the brain-mind relationship can only arise from a combination of subjective experience and scientific objectivity.Current developments in the understanding of brain functions are reviewed in a clinical context.The authors discuss neuroscientific advances in the fields of consciousness, memory, emotions, language, trauma and pain.They explore how stressful...