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November 6, 2017 Evan Thompson
Author's précis of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy, including the author's response to commentators.
November 3, 2017 Lance Storm, Simon J. Sherwood, Chris A Roe et al.
In order to further our understanding about the limits of human consciousness and the dream state, we report meta-analytic results on experimental dream-ESP studies for the period 1966 to 2016. Dream-ESP can be defined as a form of extra-sensory perception (ESP) in which a dreaming perceiver ostensibly gains information about a randomly selected target without using the normal sensory...
bioRxiv Preprint Server November 3, 2017 Keisuke Suzuki, Warrick Roseboom, David J. Schwartzman et al. 2 citations preprint
Altered states of consciousness, such as psychotic or pharmacologically-induced hallucinations, provide a unique opportunity to examine the mechanisms underlying conscious perception. However, the phenomenological properties of these states are difficult to isolate experimentally from other, more general physiological and cognitive effects of psychoactive substances or psychopathological...
Advances in Consciousness Research October 19, 2017 Riccardo Manzotti
What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked “What is a man?” and replied that a man is “a certain sort of material object”. This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a mind-object identity theory is proposed in its place: to be conscious of an object is simply to be made...
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis October 4, 2017 Leandro Drivet 1 citation
This paper addresses Nietzsche's reflections on the phenomenon of dreams as a crucial precedent of Freud's Die Traumdeutung. The works of Nietzsche and Freud are scrutinized to establish and compare the most relevant aspects of their understanding of dreams. The philosophical impact of both accounts is assessed in terms of the transvaluation of religious and metaphysical values, which reveals...
Sleep Medicine Reviews October 1, 2017 Carlo Cipolli, Michele Ferrara, Luigi De Gennaro et al.
Recent advances in electrophysiological [e.g., surface high-density electroencephalographic (hd-EEG) and intracranial recordings], video-polysomnography (video-PSG), transcranial stimulation and neuroimaging techniques allow more in-depth and more accurate investigation of the neural correlates of dreaming in healthy individuals and in patients with brain-damage, neurodegenerative diseases,...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences October 1, 2017 Rubin Naiman
We are at least as dream deprived as we are sleep deprived. Many of the health concerns attributed to sleep loss result from a silent epidemic of REM sleep deprivation. REM/dream loss is an unrecognized public health hazard that silently wreaks havoc with our lives, contributing to illness, depression, and an erosion of consciousness. This paper compiles data about the causes and extent of...
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction September 14, 2017 Susan Blackmore 18 citations
‘Altered states of consciousness’ discusses the states of consciousness during sleep, dreaming, hallucinations, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, meditation, and after taking psychoactive drugs. Psychologist Charles Tart defines an altered state of consciousness (ASC) as ‘a qualitative alteration in the overall pattern of mental functioning, such that the experiencer feels his...
Routledge eBooks September 7, 2017 William Archer, Gilbert Murray
AT the same time I think that the strongest argument against the ‘psychical explosion’ or ‘alarum-clock’ doctrine is to be found in the well-established fact that some of us, far from reserving our dream-activity for the moment before waking, begin to dream the moment we close our eyes. This is certainly my own experience. I have been able to collect a great deal of evidence on the point,...
Routledge eBooks September 7, 2017 William Oliver Stevens
The fact that a vexing problem, which has defied solution in waking consciousness, sometimes finds an answer in sleep has been well known to psychologists for a long time. Condorcet, the brilliant French philosopher and mathematician of the eighteenth century, found in a dream the solution to a mathematical problem on which he had been struggling in vain for a long time. In the biography of the...