The American Journal of Psychology
1991
Piercarla Cicogna, Corrado Cavallero, Marino Bosinelli
70 citations
Upon nighttime experimental awakening of 27 subjects in four sleep conditions (sleep onset early; sleep onset late; Stage 2; and rapid eye movement, REM, sleep), 108 dream reports and their association reports were collected. Dream reports were analyzed for length (temporal units) and content categories (continuity; implausibility; presence of the dreamer [i.e., "the self"], a setting,...
December 1, 1990
S. Blackmore, A. Blake, L. Tarassenko
Books about dreaming range from the 'how to transform your life in no time at all' variety, through psychoanalytic interpretation, to modern cognitive theory—usually with very little overlap between them. In this new book, Hunt attempts to span the entire range of ideas in explaining the multiple forms of dream experience. Dream research has arrived at a hiatus, claims Hunt. The previous...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
March 1, 1990
Harvey I. Botman, Herbert F. Crovitz
30 citations
Two experiments investigated autobiographical memory by studying dream reports. The continuity of autobiographical memory in the waking state and in sleep was demonstrated via Crovitz and Schiffman's retention function. The retention function was found to hold for vivid memories of dreams and vivid memories of waking experiences. It was also found to hold for waking events referenced in dream...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1990
D. Scott Rogo, Susan C. Litton
To the Editor:Despite the fact that near-death experiences (NDEs) by definition seem caused by proximity to death, episodes similar to the classic NDE can emerge in other settings.Experiences remarkably concordant to the prototypical NDE, complete with out-of-body observations, tunnels, white lights, and even eschatological journeys, have been reported from situations in which the reporter was...
Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
1990
Francis C. Crick, Christof Koch
334 citations
preprint
Koch 1990) that outlined a sketch of such a theory. Our aim was not to produce as complete a theory of con-sciousness as possible but to indicate promising lines of experimental work, mainly neurobiological, that might lead eventually toward a solution of the problem. We made the plausible assumption that all forms of con-sciousness (e.g., seeing, thinking, and pain) employ, at bottom, rather...
Death Studies
1990
The near-death experience literature includes many accounts of adults who have had near-death experiences as adults or when they were children. The literature also reveals a few accounts of children reporting on their childhood near-death experiences. But the literature does not contain a single case of a near-death experience happening at birth, until the reporting of this case. Not only is...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
October 1, 1989
Harvey I. Botman, Herbert F. Crovitz
10 citations
Three experiments investigated dream reports from the previous night. The major hypothesis tested was that the reportage of dreams could be facilitated with cues. Three different types of cues were examined: semantic cues related to the themes of dreams, event cues related to experiences from the day before the dream, and color-names. On the whole, cuing increased the reportage of dreams beyond...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 1989
James M. Wood, David S. Sebba, George Domino
28 citations
An attempt was made to replicate earlier studies which have found a relation between waking creativity and dream bizarreness. Two-week dream diaries were collected from 126 undergraduates and the dreams scored for bizarreness using Auld's Primary Process Scale and Kluger's Everydayness Scale. Subjects were also administered four commonly used tests of creativity as well as a test of vocabulary...
Sleep
August 1, 1989
A Brylowski, Lynne Levitan, Stephen LaBerge
A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory. The subject reported becoming lucid and signaling in 8 of the 18 rapid-eye movement (REM) periods recorded. Ten lucid dream reports were verified by polygraphic examination...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1989
Howard M. Wolowitz, Timothy Anderson
7 citations
Evolution of psychoanalytic dream theory from the topographical-conflict model resulted in the relative ascendance of manifest dream content and structure. Correspondingly, Freud's emphasis on the latent dream, disguised unconscious wish-fulfillment function, was paralleled by the development of an ego problem-solving-conflict function demonstrably observable in subjects' and patients'...