MacSphere
2018
Christopher Jensen
6 citations
This project explores the evolution of medieval Chinese Buddhist perspectives on dreams through a series of in-depth comparisons between the oneiric narratives preserved in Huijiao's (慧皎) "Biographies of Eminent Monks" (Gaoseng zhuan 高僧傳 [GSZ]) and Daoxuan's (道宣) "Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks" (Xu gaoseng zhuan 續高僧傳 [XGSZ]), drawing inspiration from contemporary Sinological and...
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
2018
Sam Stoeltje
Reviewed by: Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture by David Cecchetto et al. Samuel Stoeltje KEY WORDS ludic dreaming, dream states, hyperstition, situationism, the occult, Occulture, Gilles Deleuze, ‘pataphysics, cultural theory david cecchetto, marc couroux, ted hiebert, andeldritch priest (the occulture). Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary...
Frontiers in Psychology
2018
Raphael Vallat, Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub, Alain Nicolas et al.
Recent findings indicate that dream recall frequency (DRF) is associated with neurophysiological traits, and notably the regional cerebral blood flow at rest within the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). To test whether, such physiological traits are rooted in anatomical specificities, we used voxel-based morphometry to compare the white matter and gray...
Nature and Science of Sleep
2018
Anastasia Mangiaruga, Serena Scarpelli, Chiara Bartolacci et al.
40 citations
Brain and sleep maturation covary across different stages of life. At the same time, dream generation and dream recall are intrinsically dependent on the development of neural systems. The aim of this paper is to review the existing studies about dreaming in infancy, adulthood, and the elderly stage of life, assessing whether dream mentation may reflect changes of the underlying cerebral...
Cognitive Science
2018
Clemens Speth, Jana Speth
Hallucinatory states are experienced not only in connection with drugs and psychopathologies but occur naturally and spontaneously across the human circadian cycle: Our nightly dreams bring multimodal experiences in the absence of adequate external stimuli. The current study proposes a new, tighter measure of these hallucinatory states: Sleep onset, REM sleep, and non-REM sleep are shown to...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
2018
Camila Sanz, Federico Zamberlán, Earth Erowid et al.
3 citations
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CORRECTION article Front. Neurosci., 11 April 2018Sec. Neuropharmacology Volume 12 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00229
December 31, 2017
Min Jae Seong, A. Jung, Hea Ree Park et al.
Min Jae Seong, A-reum Jung, Hea Ree Park, Su Jung Choi, Eun Yeon Joo Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Department of Nursing, Samsung Medical Center, Department of Clinical Nursing Science, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Department of Neurology, Brain-Nerve Center, Samsung Medical Center, Samsung Biomedical...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
November 27, 2017
James M. Honeycutt
Research has demonstrated the health benefits of a wide range of spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer, and similar nonspiritual practices like mindfulness. Shamanism is a spiritual practice that uses dream recall during ecstatic trances, and scientific research has shown health benefits of dream recall. Researchers have long realized the importance of intrapersonal communication...
Journal of Sleep Research
November 24, 2017
Michelle Carr, Kadia Saint-Onge, Cloé Blanchette-Carrière et al.
A recent study reported that individuals recalling frequent idiopathic nightmares (NM) produced more perseveration errors on a verbal fluency task than did control participants (CTL), while not differing in overall verbal fluency. Elevated scores on perseveration errors, an index of executive dysfunction, suggest a cognitive inhibitory control deficit in NM participants. The present study...
Sleep
November 21, 2017
Andrea J Phelps, Richard Kanaan, Christopher Worsnop et al.
80 citations
Study Objectives: This study used ambulatory polysomnography (PSG) to investigate post-traumatic nightmares of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The key research question was whether post-traumatic nightmares occur in both rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep, and if so, whether nightmares in each sleep stage differed in content, phenomenology, and heart rate response. Underlying...