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June 24, 2013 J. Prendergast
Abstract This investigation is a practice-based inquiry. It takes place in the context of writing and editing a novel manuscript: The earth does not get fat (Prendergast 2012). The unpublished novel manuscript is a fractured narrative, a tale told in multiple first-person voices. One of the problems the writer encountered, as the novel developed, was a problem from the perspective of logic and...
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis June 19, 2013 Anne Diamond
“This book is about the psychedelic potential of dreams” (p. 30). J. Allan Hobson uses his own brain and its dreams to provide a “unified theory of consciousness” that ties dreaming, dissociative s...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences June 18, 2013 Ho Ming Chow, Silvina G. Horovitz, Walter S. Carr et al.
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep constitutes a distinct "third state" of consciousness, during which levels of brain activity are commensurate with wakefulness, but conscious awareness is radically transformed. To characterize the temporal and spatial features of this paradoxical state, we examined functional interactions between brain regions using fMRI resting-state connectivity methods....
Consciousness and Cognition March 1, 2013 Ursula Voss, Karin Schermelleh-Engel, Jennifer Windt et al.
In this article, we present results from an interdisciplinary research project aimed at assessing consciousness in dreams. For this purpose, we compared lucid dreams with normal non-lucid dreams from REM sleep. Both lucid and non-lucid dreams are an important contrast condition for theories of waking consciousness, giving valuable insights into the structure of conscious experience and its...
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth February 27, 2013 Michael Schredl, Angela Buscher, Cornelia Haaß et al. 16 citations
Dream socialisation encompasses factors that might affect children's attitudes towards dreams or their dream recall frequencies directly; for example, by being asked about dreams by other persons or the sharing of dreams with others. The present study in 170 children/adolescents (age range 10–15 years) was designed to study whether dream socialisation might help to explain the well-documented...
Social Science & Medicine February 2013 Eric Young, Se Xiong, Laurel Finn et al.
Concerns regarding sleep disorders in Hmong immigrants in the US emerged when an astonishingly high mortality rate of Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS) was documented in Hmong men. Stress, genetics, and cardiac abnormalities interacting with disordered sleep were hypothesized as contributing factors to SUNDS. Most recently, sleep apnea has been implicated in nighttime deaths...
VCU Scholars Compass 2013 Laurin Mack 2 citations
Combat and war zone veterans are particularly vulnerable to developing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to the increased risk of experiencing trauma inherent in military service. Insomnia and nightmares are core symptoms of PTSD and can be factors in the development, maintenance, and exacerbation of PTSD. However, sleep disturbance has received relatively little attention from a...
Journal of the history of the neurosciences 2013 Adrian R Morrison
The recognition of rapid-eye-movement sleep (REM) and its association with dreaming in 1953 by Aserinsky and Kleitman opened a new world to explore in the brain. Discussions at two major symposia in the early 1960s reveal that a state with characteristics resembling both wakefulness and sleep was overturning accepted views of the regulation of the two states. Participants grappled with the idea...
Frontiers in Psychology 2013 Jayesh S. Pillai, Christian Schmidt, Simon Richir 52 citations
The sense of "Presence" (evolving from "telepresence") has always been associated with virtual reality research and is still an exceptionally mystifying constituent. Now the study of presence clearly spans over various disciplines associated with cognition. This paper attempts to put forth a concept that argues that it's an experience of an "Evoked Reality (ER)" (illusion of reality) that...
University Library Heidelberg 2013 Jennifer D. Parker, Kayleigh Freer, Kate Adams 1 citation
Using a mixed methods approach, this study investigates whether the content of dreams reported by 7 to 8 year olds differs significantly from those of 9 to 11 year olds. Nineteen children in the south west of England completed dream diaries at home for 14 days. The data were coded using Hall and Van de Castle’s (1966) Dream Content Analysis. The results demonstrate that despite a small sample...