Nightmare frequency in adult ADHD patients has not yet been studied systematically. In a sample of 65 patients, it could be shown that nightmare frequency was elevated in ADHD patients compared to a sample representative for Germany. Frequent nightmares (once a week or more often) were reported by 4.62 % of the patients and 1.77 % of the controls. This increase was neither explained by the...
This article takes a semiotic and structuralist approach to understanding the characteristic nightmare package of imagery, or image-constellation, which appears also in charms, curses and lullabies to do with disturbed sleep. Elements of the nightmare package – its mythos – is related to a spectrum of charms and related belief-narratives. Charms against the nightmare are investigated, as are...
Dream research has advanced considerably since the discovery of REM sleep. However, despite the progress made and the existence of various theories of dreaming, the neuroanatomical origins underlying dream recall remains a controversial topic. This may have been due to a lack of suitable tools to effectively test such theories. There is now, however, a diverse range of noninvasive brain...
Did Luke intend Peters visionary command to eat unclean animals in Acts 10 to suggest the dissolution of the Jewish Law? John Moxon shows how, by the incorporation of anxiety dream motifs from Graeco-Roman biography, Luke takes revelation in a decidedly psychological direction, opening up a striking new reading of this controversial passage.
Sleep and dreaming are important daily phenomena that are receiving growing attention from both the scientific and the philosophical field. The increasingly popular predictive brain framework within cognitive science aims to give a full account of all aspects of cognition. The aim of this paper is to critically assess the theoretical advantages of Predictive Processing (PP, as proposed by Clark...
Nightmares are associated with psychopathology and impaired coping in the general population. However, little is known about this association in a psychiatric population. In this study, we investigate whether patients with diverse psychiatric disorders have increased symptomatology and different coping styles if they suffer from comorbid nightmare disorder. Participants were 498 patients with...
Nightmares are typically extended, elaborate dream narratives, and usually occur during rapid eye movement period of sleep.Nightmare experience is accompanied by the disturbed affect culminating in arousal, which usually involves an individual's efforts to avoid threats to survival, security, or physical integrity, but often results in awakening with rapid orientation and alertness...
High dream recallers (HR) show a larger brain reactivity to auditory stimuli during wakefulness and sleep as compared to low dream recallers (LR) and also more intra-sleep wakefulness (ISW), but no other modification of the sleep macrostructure. To further understand the possible causal link between brain responses, ISW and dream recall, we investigated the sleep microstructure of HR and LR,...
Cannabinoids are derivatives that are either compounds occurring naturally in the plant, Cannabis sativa or synthetic analogs of these molecules. The first and most widely investigated of the cannabinoids is Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC), which is the main psychotropic constituent of cannabis and undergoes significant binding to cannabinoid receptors. These cannabinoid receptors are...