American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
October 1, 1994
Steven Jay Lynn, Cornelia Maré, Steven A. Kvaal et al.
17 citations
This article summarizes data from three studies (Maré, Lynn, Kvaal, Segal, & Sivec, in press; Lynn, Maré, Kvaal, Segal, & Sivec, 1993) designed to extend research on the "hidden observer" to two phenomena of clinical relevance: hypnotic dreams and suggested age regression. Subjects received suggestions for a hypnotic dream or age regression and then received suggestions for a "hidden observer"...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 1994
Stephen LaBerge
A model of dreaming is developed along the following lines: A primary function of the brain is to predict and control environmental events. In order to do so, it constructs a model of the world. The waking brain bases its model primarily on current sensory information, and secondarily on contextual and historical information. In contrast, because the sleeping brain acquires little information...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 1994
Douglass Price‐williams
Anthropological studies of folk cultures have been made not only on the content of their dreams but also on their interpretations. While there is a wide variance in the understanding of dreaming by cultures other than our own, there is a large set which might be called the classic dream interpretation of folk societies, which was first noted by Tylor in the nineteenth century. Its main tenet is...
Journal of Psychology and Theology
June 1, 1994
Hendrika Vande Kemp
This historical examination focuses on dreams at a time when these manifestations of sleeping consciousness first drew the interest of the new psychologists in addition to that of philosophers, clergy, and laity. The data is the dream literature from 1860 to 1910, reflected primarily in popular magazines. The author summarizes the dream articles in religious magazines and by the clergy,...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1994
Piercarla Cicogna
7 citations
The aim of the present work was to investigate the characteristics of the dreaming during the beginning and the end of sleep, both phases being transitional between different states of consciousness (wakefulness vs sleep and vice versa). The hypothesis of an adaptive function of the mental activity in the two sleep phases is put forward to ensure a continuity of self-experience in the passage...
Ceskoslovenska psychiatrie
April 1, 1994
S Grof
In this lecture, the new insights and strategies that transpersonal psychology offers will be discussed in relation to the global crisis. Western academic psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy are ethnocentric; they tend to see their point of view as being superior to the perspectives of all the other cultural groups. They are also pragmacentric in that they take into considerations only...
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
March 3, 1994
Robert Richmond Ellis
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1994
Antonio Zadra
4 citations
Six studies are presented whose combined goals were to investigate the relationship between the dimensions of repetition and negative affect in dreams, dream content measures, and measures of well-being. Study 1 presents the results of a content analysis of childhood and adult recurrent dreams. Study 2 showed that recurrent dreamers score lower on measures of well-being and report more negative...
Clio's Psyche
1994
M. Potts
In human history when and how did dreaming consciousness and the ability to metaphorize (or “imagemake”) originate? This question has been the subject of extensive research by MacKenzie (1965), Mumford (1966), and Langer (1972). Mumford (1966) concluded that proto-human consciousness was initially comprised of dreamlike consciousness which gradually evolved into waking consciousness, in...
International Forum of Psychoanalysis
October 1, 1993
Montague Ullman
An alternative view of the nature of dreaming consciousness is presented that differs from that of Dr. McDougall in three important ways. The dream is not regarded as the result of a return to a regressive state. It is a highly creative metaphorical representation of the subjective state of the dreamer. The dreamer is involved in a self-confrontational act that is revelatory rather than...