The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
April 1, 1993
J Mcclenon
12 citations
An experience-centered approach reveals empirical foundations for shamanic healing. This article is based on data derived from surveys of Chinese, Japanese, Caucasian-American, and African-American populations and participant observation of over thirty Asian shamans. Respondents reported anomalous events such as apparitions, extrasensory perceptions, contact with the dead, precognitive dreams,...
Journal of Sleep Research
March 1, 1993
Corrado Cavallero
15 citations
Within a Human Information Processing (HIP) framework, dreaming can be subdivided into three main components: Input, Processing and Output. Until recently, only the Output has been extensively studied due to its relatively easy accessibility in the form of dream reports. Much less is known about the other two components. A method is presented by which one can get information on the nature of...
Journal of Sleep Research
March 1, 1993
D. Waterman, M. Elton, J. Leon Kenemans
34 citations
This article focuses attention on the perennial issue of home versus laboratory recording situations for the garnering of dream reports. Studies into the experimental control over procedures for both waking and interviewing are reviewed. Against this background, an experiment into the relationship between REM/NREM sleep and visual imagery is reported. We found that, having corrected for total...
The Jewish Quarterly Review
1993
Robert Gnuse
16 citations
Josephus describes the dream experience of the high priest Jaddus (Ant. 11.326-328) in a manner reminiscent of dream incubation theophanies in the biblical tradition, especially that of Solomon in 1 Kings 3. In using this nuanced mode of recording incubation dreams, Josephus was able to communicate that the Jews received divine direction under Jaddus without implying that God was manipulated to...
Journal of African Studies
1993
Ryo Inoue
This paper which is based on original field-work carried out between August 1989 and July 1990 in the Province of Adamawa, Cameroon, presents a typology of medicine men. It offers a description of the initiation by way of dreams, a process which I underwent myself. The initiation by way of dreams is discussed from a psychological perspective. I explore the possibility of reframing the...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1992
H T Hunt, A Gervais, S Shearing-Johns et al.
A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states. In two exploratory studies this questionnaire was administered to subjects with high...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
August 1, 1992
Carlo Cipolli, R Bolzani, R Massetani et al.
Dream reports of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) were analyzed to ascertain whether cognitive deficits associated with this nonfocal brain pathology influence dream structure or dream recall. Fifteen outpatients with idiopathic PD were sampled (diagnosed from 1 to 10 years and currently in stage II or III of Hoehn and Yarh's scale); all were without psychiatric symptoms or major medical...
Sleep
June 1, 1992
Tomoka Takeuchi, Akio Miyasita, Y Sasaki et al.
We elicited isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) from normal subjects by a nocturnal sleep interruption schedule. On four experimental nights, 16 subjects had their sleep interrupted for 60 minutes by forced awakening at the time when 40 minutes of nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep had elapsed from the termination of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in the first or third sleep cycle. This schedule...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
March 1, 1992
Glenn Livingston, Ross Levin
2 citations
Replication of Livingston and Levin's [1] factor analysis of Domino's [2] Questionnaire About Dreams was attempted utilizing a population of 106 graduate students screened for adequate dream recall. Results indicated that the questionnaire produced two dominant factors roughly corresponding to educated and mystical beliefs regarding dream origin. Although the items which comprised these factors...
1992
Vicki Holoubeck-Arnold
The present study investigated the moderating influences of hypnotic susceptibility and posthypnotic suggestions on induction of lucid dreams. Forty two subjects - 13 high, 14 medium, and 15 low hypnotizables - were selected for inclusion in the study. All subjects were screened for hypnotic susceptibility levels initially on the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic susceptibility (HGSHS:A), then...