Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
October 21, 2026
Tommaso Mapelli
This article aims to show that Giovanni Piana’s work provides a valuable and coherent outline for a phenomenology of the unconscious. After a necessary introduction to the topic as it appears in Piana’s writings, the analysis develops along three main lines of inquiry. First, Piana’s account of the structure of consciousness is reconstructed, highlighting its critical distance from the Freudian...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Maria Kamecka
preprint
How do we recognise the voice in our head as our own, and what changes when it feels as though someone else is speaking? This conceptual paper explores the relationship between inner speech, auditory imagery, dreaming and voice-hearing, drawing on neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of mind. It examines how agency, ownership, speaker identity and source attribution contribute to our...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 16, 2026
Jeremy Rodgers
preprint
When a person compares two apparent sizes, what warrants saying that their relation actually appears, and that the organised physical comparison itself bears that appearance? This two-document research contribution develops a positive, explicitly scoped answer. It distinguishes producing a correct comparison, experiencing a relation, and identifying the physical activity that bears the...
Alpha Revista de Artes Letras y Filosofía
October 15, 2026
Pedro Martín Favaron
This article examines a possible Indigenous conception of consciousness based on the reflections and visionary practices of the onanya (wisdom keepers of the Shipibo-Konibo nation), in contrast to the reductionist interpretations of neuroscience. While the latter tends to explain consciousness as a mere product of the brain, Indigenous reflections understand it as a relational faculty that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 13, 2026
Pramod Pillai
preprint
Conscious perception, imagery and dreaming differ in what drives them, yet may share one actively maintained organization: a single running model of the present that covers the world, the body and where one is in it. I propose that operating this organization constitutes experience. The theory names three features needed for any experience: running, in which the model’s content advances by its...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 13, 2026
Sergey Antonovich Kravchenko
preprint
Center for Anticipation 2.0 is an independent research initiative founded by Sergey Antonovich Kravchenko, continuing the work of the original Center for Anticipation (2008–2018). The project investigates how possible futures are represented in human experience through dreams, intuition, premonitions, altered states of consciousness, and anticipatory processes. Particular attention is given to...
Frontiers in Sleep
October 12, 2026
Adriana Michalak, Claudia Picard-Deland, Giulio Bernardi et al.
The sleeping brain hosts a spectrum of subjective experiences, ranging from fleeting hypnagogic images and simple thoughts to vivid, full-fledged dreams and lucid dreaming. The works published in this Research Topic present novel methodological and conceptual approaches to studying these experiences. Contributions span the challenges of studying dreaming in clinical populations (Fischmann et...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 11, 2026
Oliva Fmoo
preprint
Short Description An exploration of hypnagogic and hypnopompic states as perceptual thresholds between sleep and wakefulness. The text proposes sustained presence at the threshold as a method for investigating experiences that may otherwise remain unseen and unconceived. Abstract This work investigates the phenomenology of hypnagogic and hypnopompic states as potential thresholds for exploring...
The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
October 11, 2026
Mahmoud Ahmed Bekiet, Sahar Marei Zaki Youssef, Ahmed Jado Nabih Ali
Abstract Background Dreams reflect memory processes, incorporating long-term and autobiographical experiences. Early childhood memories, though often inaccessible consciously, may persist implicitly and appear symbolically in dreams, especially during emotional processing. This study aims to assess the frequency and themes of childhood-related memories in adult dreams in Luxor. Methods This...
Communications Psychology
October 11, 2026
Peter Coppola, Pilleriin Sikka, Katja Valli et al.
Abstract The language people use to describe their inner experiences arising during sleep and wakefulness provides a window into the mind. Dreams and unguided waking thought, here referred to as mind wandering, are thought to reflect unique individual differences and mental health. Here we use graph theory to analyse a large dataset of dream (n = 1434) and mind wandering (n = 1619) reports from...