Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 2004
Richard J. Stevenson, Trevor I. Case
26 citations
Phenomenological evidence for olfactory sensation in the absence of appropriate stimulation—imagery—is inconclusive and draws most support from reports of olfactory hallucinations. The current study examined whether more convincing phenomenological evidence could be obtained from normal participants, by studying reports of their olfactory dreams. A questionnaire approach ( N = 284) revealed...
Routledge eBooks
August 2, 2004
Shari A. Cohn-Simmen
A premonition is an experience which appears to anticipate a future event and which could not reasonably have been inferred from information available before that later event. The premonition may consist of apparent actual detailed knowledge of a later event, or a non-specific feeling of foreboding that something will happen. The more neutral term precognition is often applied in scientific...
July 26, 2004
Paul M. Livingston
The problem of explaining consciousness remains a problem about the meaning of language: the ordinary language of consciousness in which we define and express our sensations, thoughts, dreams and memories. This book argues that the problem arises from a quest that has taken shape over the twentieth century, and that the analysis of history provides new resources for understanding and resolving...
Brain Research Bulletin
June 30, 2004
Carlo Cipolli, Enrica Bonanni, Michelangelo Maestri et al.
This study examined the effectiveness of the cognitive processes underlying dreaming in patients with complex partial seizures (CPS), by assessing the frequency of recall and the structural organization of dreams reported after awakenings provoked alternately during REM and stage 2 NREM sleep on 12 cognitively unimpaired CPS-patients (six with epileptic focus in the right hemisphere and six in...
Brain Research Bulletin
June 30, 2004
Laura Palagini, Angelo Gemignani, Irwin Feinberg et al.
Despite the common misconception that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a unique correlate of dreaming, reports of mental activity can be elicited after awakenings from any stage of nocturnal sleep. We extended the investigation to naps and tried to explore the relationship between recall length and level of sleep stage and depth preceding the awakening. We hypothesized that dream report length...
Dreaming
June 1, 2004
Roland Littlewood
11 citations
Anthropological ethnographies sometimes postulate that new religious ideas may originate in individual dreams, visions, or madness. An illustration is given of the foundation of the Earth People of Trinidad, for whom dreams may still contain prophetic insight or knowledge. Their oneiric understandings have to be placed against their cultural baseline of village dream theory and the dreamlike...
Psychological Reports
June 1, 2004
Jerry Kroth, Marylynne Garcia, Michelle Hallgren et al.
This study investigated correlations among dream characteristics and measures of trauma and perinatal bereavement as reported by women who have experienced perinatal loss. 37 women who had experienced perinatal loss were randomly selected from a perinatal support group and administered the Impact of Event Scale, the Perinatal Grief Scale, and the KJP Dream Inventory. Scores on the Impact of...
Consciousness and Cognition
June 2004
Frederick Travis, Alarik Arenander, David DuBois
This research extends and confirms recent brainwave findings that distinguished an individual's sense-of-self along an Object-referral/Self-referral Continuum of self-awareness. Subjects were interviewed and were given tests measuring inner/outer orientation, moral reasoning, anxiety, and personality. Scores on the psychological tests were factor analyzed. The first unrotated PCA component of...
Psychological Science
April 1, 2004
Daniel M. Wegner, Richard M Wenzlaff, Megan Kozak
People spent 5 min before sleep at home writing their stream of thought as they suppressed thoughts of a target person, thought of the person, or wrote freely after mentioning the person. These presleep references generally prompted people to report increased dreaming about the person. However, suppression instructions were particularly likely to have this influence, increasing dreaming about...
The Family Journal
April 1, 2004
Jon Carlson
1 citation
In the early years, Ernest Lawrence Rossi devoted himself to writing a series of books about hypnosis, including casebooks, manuals, and collections of papers. He next began developing a therapeutic approach that was responsive to mind-body interactions in the healing process. Along these lines, he published The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing; Mind-Body Therapy; The February Man; Ultradian...