Perceptual and Motor Skills
April 1, 1989
H Hunt
George Gillespie's valuable observations on light and lattice imageries are played in the context of current research and theory on cognitive imagery (Kosslyn, Pylyshyn), ordinary and lucid dreaming, representational geometric imagery in scientific thought, the author's previous writings on altered states of consciousness, and Gibson's views on perception and imagery. Gillespie's reports show...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
April 1, 1989
G Gillespie
The article discusses characteristics of internal visual images and is based on personal observations of lucid dream and hypnopompic phenomena. In the context of lucid dreaming there sometimes occur persisting bright lights that do not behave like ordinary dream images. These phenomena appear as areas of light, peripheral light, disks of light, sun-like concentrations of light, and fullness of...
1989
Mary Darling
A previous study by Purcell (1987) found that subjects exposed to training designed to increase attending to dream processes exhibited increased overall maximum dream self-reflectiveness (SR) levels, including an increased frequency of lucidity. The training group was compared to an Attention Control and a Baseline condition. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of...
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
1989
Henriette Haas, Hayim Guitar-Amsterdamer, Inge Strauch
A nominal scale with 15 descriptive categories ordered in three general classes was designed. Being more complete than previous scales it captures systematically formal and content aspects of bizarreness. The data consisted of 39 REM-dream reports and 12 presleep waking fantasies (triggered by a stimulus scene) collected from 6 subjects in 12 experimental nights. The reports were rated by 4...
Lit Med
1989
^ Lady Rokujö's Ghost: Spirit Possession, Buddhism, and Healing in Japanese Literature Nancy J. Barnes Early in the eleventh century, Murasaki Shikibu composed her great novel of life at the imperial court of Japan, The Tale of Genji. Its hero, Prince Genji, loves many women, but his first lover is the Rokujö lady, an elegant older woman of great discernment and brittle pride. Too young and...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1989
I. Stevenson
This s tudy examines the incidence of reports of psychic phenomena and associated beliefs both before and after the near -dea th experience (NDE). The near -dea th exper iencers in terv iewed repor ted no more psychic phenomena before the NDE than the genera l populat ion. There was a stat ist ica l ly s ignif icant increase following the NDE in the incidence of 14 of 15 i tems examined. The...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
1989
H A Senn
4 citations
The literature on shamanism generally describes a specially gifted individual who is able to contact and communicate with a realm where spirit beings offer wisdom and help, and who actively transmits this knowledge to others. There seem to be approximately five features that define shamanism: the necessity of a "call"--an illness or accident that signifies the necessity of the individual to...
Medical Hypotheses
August 1, 1988
W Sergio
A food supplement, namely DMAE, that facilitates the induction of lucid dreams is discussed. Included is a brief consideration of the therapeutic potential of such dreams.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
April 1, 1988
Pyotr Patrushev
1 citation
This article describes a process of psychological transformation of a former Soviet defector. After years of alienation and angry denunciation of the Soviet system, he renews his contact with his family, still living in Siberia. This creates a state of tension and "dis-ease" which he at first attempts to relieve through conventional therapeutic means and then through a renewed sense of...
Cognition & Emotion
March 1, 1988
David Foulkes, Brenda Sullivan, Nancy H. Kerr et al.
51 citations
Affect appropriateness was determined for representatively sampled (REM) dream reports. Seventeen young adults were studied for two nights each. The following data were collected: dream reports; accounts of feelings experienced while dreaming; judgements of feelings appropriate to the dreamed situations had they occurred in wakefulness; and ratings of the correspondence of dream and...