Indian Journal of Psychiatry
July 1, 2012
Ram C Jiloha
Sir, Dr. Satwant Pasricha's Guest Editorial[1] (Vol. 53 Number 1), ‘Relevance of para-psychology in psychiatric practice’, makes an interesting reading. There is no denying the fact that many people have personally experienced intuition, gut-feelings, premonitions and dreams, empathy, and inspired creativity. They also include more extreme experience, such as telepathy, clairvoyance,...
Sleep
June 29, 2012
Martin Dresler, Renate Wehrle, Victor I. Spoormaker et al.
271 citations
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To investigate the neural correlates of lucid dreaming. DESIGN: Parallel EEG/fMRI recordings of night sleep. SETTING: Sleep laboratory and fMRI facilities. PARTICIPANTS: Four experienced lucid dreamers. INTERVENTIONS: N/A. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Out of 4 participants, one subject had 2 episodes of verified lucid REM sleep of sufficient length to be analyzed by fMRI. During...
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
June 1, 2012
Frank Klaassen
Following the suggested lead of Robert Mathiesen, and relying conceptually on the ethnographic work by Tanya Luhrmann, this article looks at what we know about the practice of modern magic and various forms of psychological or cognitive conditioning, seeking to apply it to an analysis of medieval ritual magic and reports about its operation. Beginning with a classroom experiment on dream...
Sleep Medicine
April 13, 2012
Armando D'Agostino, Raffaele Manni, Ivan Limosani et al.
Objectives: Dreams are commonly described as violent, threatening, and aggressive in patients with REM behavior disorder (RBD), but very few studies have directly investigated dream content in this population. We systematically assessed dreams in subjects with a confirmed diagnosis of idiopathic RBD (iRBD) and explored psychological traits within the group with specific focus on aggressiveness....
Modernism/modernity
April 1, 2012
Jesse Matz
1 citation
J. B. Priestley in the Theater of Time Jesse Matz (bio) At 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, 1963, J. B. Priestley appeared on Monitor, the BBC's fortnightly arts program, to discuss a work in progress. It was Man and Time (1964), his "personal essay exploring the eternal riddle," which surveys ways time has been reckoned throughout history, time's challenges to philosophy, science, and the arts,...
Schizophrenia research and treatment
March 26, 2012
Oliver J Mason, Dominic Wakerley
Several theories promote the similarities between dreaming and psychosis, but this has rarely been tested empirically. We assessed dreaming and waking reality using the Psychotomimetic States Inventory, a measure of psychotic-like experience originally designed for drug studies. Twenty participants completed the measure in each of two dream conditions and one waking condition. Dreams were...
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
March 2012
Dagfinn Nåden, Ida Torunn Bjørk
Research is scarce regarding patients' experiences, feelings and thoughts the first 4 weeks after liver transplantation. Most research involving patients with a liver transplant are conducted several months, or even years, after the transplantation. The aim of this study is to present results from research interviews that took place post-transplant while patients still were in hospital. The...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
February 21, 2012
Daniel Erlacher, Tadas Stumbrys, Michael Schredl
36 citations
Mental practice is the cognitive rehearsal of a motor task in the absence of overt physical movement. A different and rather unknown kind of mental rehearsal is practice in lucid dreams. Within lucid dreams, the dreamer is able to control the ongoing dream content and for athletes it is possible to use the dream state to deliberately practice sport skills while physically asleep. In this study,...
Università del Salento
February 8, 2012
Matteo Limiti
Questo articolo mira ad un’analisi del fenomeno del sogno lucido nelle sue linee teoriche e nelle sue implicazioni pratiche. L’obiettivo è quello di esaminare gli sviluppi attuali e passati del concetto e delinearne le sue possibili applicazioni. Innanzitutto si analizzeranno le prime osservazioni che hanno portato ad un iniziale interesse per il fenomeno nella cultura occidentale, fino alla...
Anesthesiology
February 7, 2012
Robert D. Sanders, Giulio Tononi, Steven Laureys et al.
478 citations
Consciousness is subjective experience. During both sleep and anesthesia, consciousness is common, evidenced by dreaming. A defining feature of dreaming is that, while conscious, we do not experience our environment; we are disconnected. Besides inducing behavioral unresponsiveness, a key goal of anesthesia is to prevent the experience of surgery (connected consciousness), by inducing either...