Imagination Cognition and Personality
March 26, 2015
Deirdre Barrett, Malcolm Grayson, OH Angela et al.
1 citation
This article explores the content of the somniloquies of Dion McGregor, the most extensive sleep talker ever recorded, and compares these with dream content from normative male dreams on the Hall and van de Castle Content Scales and Hobson Bizarreness Scales. On the Hall and van de Castle Scales, the somniloquies contained significantly more female characters relative to males than for the...
Journal of Addiction Medicine
March 1, 2015
Hélène Tanguay, Antonio Zadra, Daniel Good et al.
Objectives: To explore the relationship between occurrence of drug dreams (DDs) and daytime negative affect and drug craving during the course of a 5-week treatment program for substance dependence. Methods: Using the dream journal methodology, 86 participants reported occurrence of dreams, dream content, and ratings of affect and drug craving. The relationships between the experience of DD,...
March 1, 2015
R. E. Sears
This study aimed to create and test a dream‐specific version of Hood's Mysticism (M) Scale for the purpose of studying dreaming mystical experience. Factor analysis of the Spiritual Dreams Scale (SDS), based on data collected from 289 adults affiliated with an American evangelical Christian school, clearly resulted in three factors in accordance with prior studies of the M Scale. However, the...
Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media
February 9, 2015
Danijela Kulezic-Wilson
2 citations
Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) combines unapologetically cerebral content with a sensuous audiovisual style; fragmentariness in the narrative with an all-encompassing breadth of ideas. Another aspect of Waking Life’s internal contradictions is the juxtaposition of the film’s liminal narrative space with the most “earthly” of music genres, the tango. I will explore the contradictions of...
Sleep
February 1, 2015
Paolo Mariotti, Davide Quaranta, Raffaella Di Giacopo et al.
Study objectives: REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by motor activity during sleep with dream mentation. Aggressiveness has been considered a peculiar feature of dreams associated with RBD, despite normal score in aggressiveness scales during wakefulness. We aimed to measure daytime aggressiveness and analyze dream contents in a population of patients with...
Early American studies
January 25, 2015
Drew Lopenzina
1 citation
This article explores ruptures of colonial representation in the 1634 contribution of Paul Le Jeune to the Jesuit Relations , particularly in regard to Le Jeune’s intense antipathy to the faith Native Americans placed in dreams and dream interpretation. Native peoples had highly ritualized frameworks for interpreting dreams that stood in stark opposition to the expressed evangelical agendas of...
Open Journal of Philosophy
2015
Sung Jang Chung
5 citations
The deeper structure of leptons and quarks is still not experimentally and/or objectively clearly elucidated. No detailed accepted theory is yet established. Consequently, experimental and theoretical physicists have been investigating to find experimental or objective proofs related to the deeper structure of fundamental elementary particles in quantum physics. The author proposed a hypothesis...
Journal of Science Humanities and Arts - JOSHA
2015
Dörte Oppermann
DAHINTER EDELGARD SEEBAUER Traumtexte,Traumbilder,Traumsprache,Traumleben,Traumgestalt/en, Traumbewegung/en,Traumtheater... Das Leben ein Traum, der Traum ein Leben?Unwillkürlich stellt sich diese Frage beim Einlassen auf das vorliegende Buch, das in einer beeindruckenden Fülle und Vielfalt Innerseelisches Gestalt werden läßt.Ein roter Faden, der sich dabei erkennbar durchzieht, ist die...
Comprehensive Psychology
2015
Miloslava Kozmová
5 citations
Emotions dreamers experience in dreams are considered simple experiential awareness and theorized as primary consciousness. The current study investigated emotions as part of a core variable of the problem-solving phenomenon. 979 dreams were analyzed by the method of grounded theory with questions applied through constant comparative analysis to individual instances of dreamers' problem...
Frontiers in Psychology
2015
Patrick Mcnamara, Kelly Bulkeley
We present a theory of the creativity of dreams as well as psychopathology of religious delusions with respect to production of fundamental forms of religious cognition-specifically supernatural agent (SA) cognitions. We suggest that dream cognitions are particularly efficient at producing highly memorable and impactful experiences with SAs because dreams involve three processes that are...