Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
May 12, 2008
P Samuelsson, L Brudin, R H Sandin
Background: In earlier studies, between 1% and 57% of patients have been reported to dream during anaesthesia. Thus, dreaming is much more common than definite memories of real events. We wanted to examine whether dreaming during anaesthesia is related to insufficient hypnotic action, as indicated by BIS levels and, thus, may constitute a risk for awareness. Methods: After IRB approval, 2653...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
May 1, 2008
Naoto Adachi, Nozomi Akanuma, Takuya Adachi et al.
We investigated the relation between déjà vu and dissociative experiences in nonclinical subjects. In 227 adult volunteers, déjà vu and dissociative experiences were evaluated by means of the inventory of déjà vu experiences assessment and dissociative experiences scale (DES). Déjà vu experiences occurred in 162 (71.4%) individuals. In univariate correlation analysis, the frequency of déjà vu...
April 24, 2008
Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong
Abstract Parasomnias are undesirable physical phenomena or behavior that develop during the sleep period. These abnormal events or experiences are not principally abnormalities of the states of sleep and wakefulness, and they are not generally associated with major complaints of excessive sleepiness or insomnia. Parasomnias can manifest as activation of skeletal muscles or the autonomic nervous...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 3, 2008
Peter Brugger
Mulder and colleagues [Mulder, T., Hochstenbach, J., Dijkstra, P. U., Geertzen, J. H. B. (2008). Born to adapt, but not in your dreams. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1266-1271.] report that a majority of amputees continue to experience a normally-limbed body during their night dreams. They interprete this observation as a failure of the body schema to adapt to the new body shape. The present...
Neuropsychobiology
February 20, 2008
P. Etévenon, S. Guillou
11 citations
A night of sleep has been recorded under the conditions of a sleep laboratory. The subject was a woman of 55 years, well-trained in dream recall. The subject was awakened three times at the end of sleep cycles. EEG was monitored for 7 h with a 16-channel polygraph (REEGA 16, Alvar) connected to two systems of EEG cartography: minicomputers (HP Fourier Analyser 5451 C and HP 1000) and a...
Consciousness and Cognition
February 19, 2008
Maria Casagrande, Paolo Cortini
Based on structural differences between spoken and written language, the purpose of this paper was to investigate whether spoken and written communication imply a different representation in reporting an experienced dream. In fact, the clausal-dynamic quality of the former and nominal-synoptic quality of the latter, with the consequent differences in length, cohesion and density, could...
Humana Press eBooks
February 19, 2008
Luigi Ferini-Strambi, María Livia Fantini
4 citations
Parasomnias are abnormal behavioral or physiological events that intrude into the sleep process disrupting its continuity. Parasomnia associated to REM sleep include REM sleep behavior disorder, nightmare disorders, recurrent isolated sleep paralysis (SP), and sleep-related painful erections. The quality of life of patients suffering from parasomnias may vary according to the disorder. REM...
Progress in Brain Research
2008
Sisir Roy, Rodolfo R Llinas
Pellionisz and Llinás proposed, years ago, a geometric interpretation towards understanding brain function. This interpretation assumes that the relation between the brain and the external world is determined by the ability of the central nervous system (CNS) to construct an internal model of the external world using an interactive geometrical relationship between sensory and motor expression....
Progress in Brain Research
2008
Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton
In this chapter we present a computational architecture intended to add clarity to the concept of consciousness. We briefly review some of the motivations of work done in this area in various institutes around the world and looks closely at our own work which specifically includes phenomenology, the sense of a self in a perceptual world. This breaks consciousness into five axioms: presence,...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2008
Pamela M. Biela
The purpose of this interdisciplinary study was to answer the question, "What is the meaning of the transformative dream for people who do not experience resolution of their problem immediately upon awakening?". Existential-phenomenology from the perspective of a story was used to describe the meaning of the experience for ten individuals, nine women and one man, whose ages ranged from 23 to...