Journal of Neurotherapy
October 18, 2001
Tracy Boynton
56 citations
Previous research has supported anecdotal reports of a possible correlation between the state of hypnagogia and the enhancement of creative ability (Green, 1972;Green, Green, & Walters, 1970, 1974;Parks, 1996;Stembridge, 1972;Whisenant & Murphy, 1977).Some psychologists (e.g., Maslow, 1963;Rogers, 1978) have suggested that there is also a correlation between creative ability and enhanced...
Archives of General Psychiatry
October 2001
A J Budney, J R Hughes, B A Moore et al.
Although withdrawal symptoms are commonly reported by persons seeking treatment for marijuana dependence, the validity and clinical significance of a marijuana withdrawal syndrome has not been established. This controlled outpatient study examined the reliability and specificity of the abstinence effects that occur when daily marijuana users abruptly stop smoking marijuana. Twelve daily...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
October 1, 2001
Paula Anne Franklin
12 citations
Lippmann, Paul. Nocturnes: On Listening to Dreams. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2000. xii + 264 pp. $45.00. Writing like a poet, with the wisdom of a rabbi, in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets, Lippmann argues against the current practice in psychoanalysis of ignoring dreams. Lamenting that the use of dreams in therapy has fallen out of favor to be replaced by over-preoccupation with...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
October 1, 2001
S LeBaron, D Fanurik, L K Zeltzer
In this study, the Stanford Hypnotic Clinical Scale for Children was administered to 52 healthy children and 47 children and adolescents with cancer. Responses to the dream item of this scale were analyzed for the type and detail of imagery. The hypnotizability scores of both groups were similar. However, children with cancer reported more pleasant than unpleasant fantasy in their hypnotic...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
October 1, 2001
Gerard O'Brien, Jon Opie
3 citations
O'Regan & Noë (O&N) fail to address adequately the two most historically important reasons for seeking to explain visual experience in terms of internal representations. They are silent about the apparently inferential nature of perception, and mistaken about the significance of the phenomenology accompanying dreams, hallucinations, and mental imagery.
European Journal of Pharmacology
June 29, 2001
M Narita, K Yoshizawa, M Nomura et al.
Ketamine, which is a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, has been used as a dissociative anesthetic agent. However, chronic use of ketamine produces psychotomimetic effects, such as nightmares, hallucination and delusion. Therefore, the present study was designed to ascertain the role of the NMDA receptor and sigma receptor in the discriminative stimulus effect induced by ketamine....
Dreaming
June 1, 2001
Stanley Krippner, Laura V. Faith
13 citations
The purpose of this study was to identify “exotic” (i.e., puzzling, unusual, extraordinary, anomalous) dreams in a sample of 1,666 dream reports from six countries, and to make gender comparisons as well. Research participants were members of dream seminars that one of us conducted between 1990 and 1998 in Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. Only one dream report...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
June 1, 2001
Tsuyoshi Kotorii, Tatayu Kotorii, Naohisa Uchimura et al.
AbstractA sleep survey was conducted on 8162 citizens. The cumulative experience rate of sleep paralysis was 39.6%. The initial occurrence of sleep paralysis peaked at age 16 years. In addition to being higher in young people than in older subjects, the incidence of sleep paralysis was also higher among women than among men, and was significantly higher among shift worker than non‐shift worker,...
Journal of Sleep Research
March 4, 2001
Tomoka Takeuchi, Akio Miyasita, Maki Inugami et al.
The hypothesis that there is a strict relationship between dreams and a specific rapid eye movement (REM) sleep mechanism is controversial. Many researchers have recently denied this relationship, yet none of their studies have simultaneously controlled both sleep length and depth prior to non‐REM (NREM) and REM sleep awakenings, due to the natural rigid order of the NREM–REM sleep cycle. The...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
March 2, 2001
R. Joseph
83 citations
The evolutionary neurological foundations of religious experience are detailed. Human beings have been burying and preparing their dead for the Hereafter for more than 100,000 years. These behaviors and beliefs are related to activation of the amygdala, hippocampus, and temporal lobe, which are responsible for religious, spiritual, and mystical trancelike states, dreaming, astral projection,...