Journal of Human Sciences
2016
Vincenza A. Tiberia Et. Al.
5 citations
to show both (1) that attributing simple dichotomies to his out the relations between evolutionary biology and symbolic activity in a way that can be useful in understanding both dream symbolism and dream incubation-that is, the ritual evocation of "big and archetypes, and show the importance of the notion of psychoid process in bridging the archetypal and ritual evocation of dreams across...
University Library Heidelberg
2016
Gregory Scott Sparrow, Ralph Carlson, Ryan Hurd
8 citations
A group of 18 experienced lucid dreamers responded to a 27-item online questionnaire pertaining to their use of the supplement galantamine for the purpose of inducing dreams. The questionnaire included 14 items that assessed the perceived differences on dimensions of dream phenomenology between lucid dreams immediately preceded by the ingestion of galantamine, and lucid dreams that were not....
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2016
Helene Sophrin Porte
AbstractMorsella et al. argue convincingly that consciousness is for adaptive voluntary action. What, then, is consciousness in a dream for? Two prior questions present themselves. In a dream, how do contents get into the conscious field? What are the properties of consciousness in a dream?
Frontiers in Psychology
2016
Nicolas Ribeiro, Yannick Gounden, Véronique Quaglino
Lucid dreaming (LD) is a state of consciousness in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming and can possibly control the content of his or her dream. To investigate the LD prevalence among different samples, researchers have used different types of methodologies. With regard to retrospective self-report questionnaire, two ways of proceeding seem to emerge. In one case, a definition...
Journal of reward deficiency syndrome and addiction science
2016
Thomas Mclaughlin, Marcelo Febo, Rajendra D Badgaiyan et al.
Recent reports by our laboratory have indicated that lucid dreams may be linked to psychiatric conditions, including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other Reward Deficiency Syndrome-related diagnoses. In the latter case, it has been our observation that such lucid dreams can be unpleasant and frequently terrifying. We present four cases of a dramatic and persistent...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
December 15, 2015
Shea Golding, Michael R Nadorff, E Samuel Winer et al.
Objective: Duration of insomnia symptoms and nightmares are related to suicidal risk in young adults independent of current symptoms of insomnia, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. However, this relation has yet to be examined among older adults, despite older adults being at higher risk of suicidal behavior. Further, the current study aims to replicate previous research among younger...
Journal of physiology, Paris
December 2015
Anita Beck, Gábor Fábián, Pál Fejérdy et al.
Long-term photo-acoustic stimulation is used for the induction of altered states of consciousness for both therapeutic and experimental purposes. Long-term photo-acoustic stimulation also leads to changes in the composition of saliva which have a key contribution to the efficiency of this technique in easing mucosal symptoms of oral psychosomatic patients. The aim of this study is to find out...
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
December 2015
Bruno Marchal
I will explain how the mathematicians have discovered the universal numbers, or abstract computer, and I will explain some abstract biology, mainly self-reproduction and embryogenesis. Then I will explain how and why, and in which sense, some of those numbers can dream and why their dreams can glue together and must, when we assume computationalism in cognitive science, generate a...
Cartographica
December 1, 2015
Cristina M. Iosifescu Enescu, Jacques Montangero, Lorenz Hurni
The objective of dream cartography is to map dream content, that is, to develop new visualization methods and adapt existing ones as graphical means for an explorative dream analysis. We aim at modelling (i.e., disentangling), documenting, reuniting, and graphically depicting the dream space and other relevant psychological aspects of dreams in a meaningful but abstracted way. In this article...
Psychopharmacology
November 27, 2015
Joaquim Soler, Matilde Elices, Alba Franquesa et al.
212 citations
BackgroundAyahuasca is a psychotropic plant tea used for ritual purposes by the indigenous populations of the Amazon. In the last two decades, its use has expanded worldwide. The tea contains the psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), plus β-carboline alkaloids with monoamine-oxidase-inhibiting properties. Acute administration induces an introspective dream-like...