PsyArXiv
March 25, 2024
Michael Raduga, Andrey Shashkov
preprint
Smart home systems facilitate humans’ domestic environments and enhance their quality of life. Voice control of devices is usually available right after one awakens in the morning. In this study, we tested a way to operate smart home technologies even before awakening with the help of electromyographical (EMG) signals from dreams. A software program was tuned to translate and digitally vocalize...
International Symposium on Electronic Commerce
March 9, 2024
Alessandra V Manganaro
Lucid dreams occur when the subject is aware that they're dreaming while still asleep. It is a state of REM sleep, typically characterized by heightened activity in the frontoparietal region in the brain (associated with self-reflection and memory) comparable to during wakefulness. Growing attention, particularly in neuroscience, has been recently paid to this topic because of its links to the...
Nature and Science of Sleep
March 1, 2024
Qi Rui See, Kausar Raheel, Iain Duncan et al.
8 citations
Background: Speech graph analysis (SGA) of dreams has recently shown promise as an objective and language-invariant diagnostic tool that can aid neuropsychiatric diagnosis. Whilst the notion that dreaming mentations reflect distinct physiologic processes is not new, such studies in patients with sleep disorders remain exceptionally scarce. Here, using SGA and other dream content analyses, we...
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
March 1, 2024
Adriana Alcaraz-Sánchez
AbstractRecently, the construct ‘lucid dreamless sleep’ has been proposed to explain the state of ‘clear light’ described by Tibetan Buddhist traditions, a special state of consciousness during deep sleep in which we’re told to be able to recognise the nature or essence of our mind (Padmasambhava & Gyatrul 2008; Ponlop 2006; Wangyal 1998). To explain the sort of awareness experienced during...
February 26, 2024
S. Saran
Dream enthusiasts and researchers are drawn to lucid dreaming, a unique state of awareness in which the dreamer is aware that he is dreaming and has influence over the dream world. A thorough examination of the state of dream research today is given in this review article, which covers a wide range of topics including the neurological underpinnings of the phenomena, induction techniques,...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
February 20, 2024
Michael R. Sheehy
A classic set of eight similes of illusion (sgyu ma’i dpe brgyad) are employed recurrently throughout Indian and Tibetan Buddhist literature to illustrate the operations of cognition, its correlative perceptions, and experiences that emerge. To illustrate a Buddhist psychology of metaphor, the fourteenth century Tibetan scholar and synthesizer of the Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) or Great Perfection...
Current Issues in Sport Science
February 7, 2024
Emma Peters, Xinlin Wang, Martin Dresler et al.
Introduction Lucid dreaming opens the possibility to rehearse sport skills within a dream while sleeping (Peters et al. 2023; Stumbrys et al. 2016). But so far, no induction techniques have been developed to induce reliable lucid dreams. One potential technique is to apply external stimulation while a person is sleeping in order to send a hint into the dream which might enhance lucidity in the...
The MIT Press eBooks
February 6, 2024
Lay down and almost immediately snapped into the Basal Clarity. [#3058]The lucidity was so shocking that I had the experience of falling out of the dream, down into a space that was a vast, limitless, empty void but also filled completely with pure awareness.[#105]
International Internal Medicine Journal
January 29, 2024
Purpose: The research is aimed at studying the potential for dream synchronization, including lucid dreams, among a group of participants using the concepts of "memes" and "tag-memes" within the framework of the "Banchenko Algorithm" and the "Mnemonic Dream Synchronization Technique of Banchenko." Additionally, it aims to assess the effectiveness of a new artificial intelligence model built and...
PsyArXiv
January 26, 2024
Michael Raduga, Andrey Shashkov
preprint
Objective. In lucid dreams (LDs), it is possible to maintain consciousness and achieve predetermined goals while in REM sleep. Since the 1980s, scientists have been searching for LD application areas. The current study is the first to demonstrate a method for controlling a car avatar with feedback from LDs. Support for this possibility could be used for personal applications and LD studies....
PsyArXiv
January 9, 2024
Garret Yount, Sitara Taddeo, Tadas Stumbrys et al.
preprint
Introduction: Salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) is considered a marker of autonomic nervous system activity in stress research, and atypical waking sAA responses have been reported for traumatized individuals. Lucid dreams, characterized by a dreamer's awareness of their dream state while remaining asleep, have shown promising preliminary evidence of their potential to enhance mental health. This...
Synthese Library
2024
Daniel Gregory
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is not to show that the answer to the question in the title is ‘no’, but to show that it is ‘probably not’, at least on one particular theory of memory. Assuming that an experience will only be an episodic memory if we are ‘disposed to take the relevant experience into account when judging about the past’ (Debus, Accounting for epistemic relevance: A new...
Frontiers in Psychology
2024
Garret Yount, Sitara Taddeo, Tadas Stumbrys et al.
1 citation
Salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) is considered a marker of autonomic nervous system activity in stress research, and atypical waking sAA responses have been reported for traumatized individuals. Lucid dreams, characterized by a dreamer's awareness of their dream state while remaining asleep, have shown promising preliminary evidence of their potential to enhance mental health. This study's...
Consciousness and Cognition
2024
Jarrod Gott, Sina Stücker, Philipp Kanske et al.
22 citations
Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter and neuromodulator involved in a variety of cognitive functions. Additionally, acetylcholine is involved in the regulation of REM sleep: cholinergic neurons in the brainstem and basal forebrain project to and innervate wide areas of the cerebral cortex, and reciprocally interact with other neuromodulatory systems, to produce the sleep-wake cycle and different...