Perceptual and Motor Skills
October 1, 1997
Jorge Conesa
This report describes a test of the hypothesis that significant changes in the ambient geomagnetic field are associated with altered normal nighttime dream patterns. Specifically, it was predicted that there would be a greater incidence of isolated sleep paralysis or vivid dreams with abrupt rises and falls of geomagnetic activity. The author's (JC) and a second subject's (KC) daily reports of...
Neuropsychologia
May 1997
L McCormick, Tore Nielsen, Maurice Ptito et al.
Investigations of dream mentation in brain damaged patients have shed some light on the controversial issue of cerebral lateralization of dreaming. To examine further the relationships between brain function and dreaming, we studied REM sleep dream recall and content in four patients having undergone right functional or anatomical hemispherectomy and eight matched control subjects. Patients...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1997
Karl Jansen
3 citations
The commentators on my paper raised several interesting is sues. Set and setting do influence drug effects, but they also influence near death experiences (NDEs). Some NDEs are very anxiety-generating, just like some ketamine experiences, though frightening NDEs have been ignored by most researchers. High frequency, compulsive ketamine use is rare. While dimethyltryptamine (DMT) may induce...
Aristotle: On Sleep and Dreams
December 1, 1996
15 20 25 30 454a 5 1. 453b11-24. Survey of questions regarding (I) sleep and waking; (2) dreams; and (3) precognition based upon dreams. 453b11. As for sleep and waking, we must consider what they are, and whether they are proper to the soul or to the body, or are common to both. If they are common, which part of the soul and the body has them, and...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1996
M Zivković
A quantitative Dream Test score is defined as the ratio of the number of the key dream words selected by a subject and given a plus sign to the number of the dream words given minus sign as is done on the Initial-letter Word-association Test. The mean quantitative Dream Test score is 2+/3- with a slight prevalence of minus over plus signs and the mean number of selected key dream words of 5....
Cambridge University Press eBooks
July 13, 1996
Alberto Melucci
Nomads of the present Ever since its advent, the modern world has offered individual action an open field of possibility. The myths of progress and liberty have fed the Promethean dream of freeing mankind from natural constraints, by submitting nature to the dominion of technological power. Moreover, the promise of freedom has been extended to regard also the life of the individual, for whom it...
Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
June 1, 1996
Paul E. Emery
9 citations
The intrapsychic processes underlying the phenomenology of PTSD symptoms appear to derive their fate from the states of consciousness at the time of traumatic experiences. The operative mechanisms of consciousness-condensation, avoidance of censorship, representability, and secondary revision-are the elements of trauma work as they are of dream work. These mechanisms establish an ever-present...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
April 18, 1996
Rene Descartes
You conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist , is true whenever it is put forward by you or conceived in your mind. But I do not see that you needed all this apparatus, when on other grounds you were certain, and it was true, that you existed. You could have made the same inference from any one of your other actions, since it is known by the natural light that whatever acts exists. [ Fifth...
American Journal of Psychotherapy
April 1, 1996
J. N. Schreuder
15 citations
Posttraumatic re-experiencing is a key symptom of earlier psychotraumatic experiences. It is important to establish whether we are dealing with nightmares or re-enactments. Posttraumatic nightmares are an expression of intrapsychic concerns and conflicts and, in and of themselves, need not impede exploratory psychotherapy. The nightmare entails both regression to the perceptual level of a small...
American Journal of Psychotherapy
April 1, 1996
Ira Brenner
19 citations
This review has focused on the characterological features of dissociative identity disorder (DID), extending the "state versus trait" debate to the realm of the dissociative disorders. A number of different theories are presented describing DID as a variant of, on a continuum with, or being comorbid with the narcissistic and the borderline personality disorders. It is then hypothesized that DID...