Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Xinyue Huang
preprint
Preprint (not peer-reviewed). Version 1.0. Literature checked to 2026-09-27. Critical review of dream science covering neural correlates, dream reports versus experience, lucid-dream communication, memory and creativity claims, a causal-identification argument, and anomalous-information / precognition hypotheses. Main claim: existing evidence supports treating dreams as sleep-generated...
Preprints.org
September 21, 2026
Xianqun Yi, Hongsheng Li
preprint
The convergence of generative artificial intelligence and brain-computer interface technology is pushing artificial dreaming from science fiction into the scope of academic inquiry. Existing research has focused primarily on technical implementation pathways and sensory fidelity goals; while fragmented ethical and risk warnings exist, there remains a lack of systematic assessment of the...
Metafizika Journal
September 15, 2026
Kamala Panahova
The article examines mystical elements within the Ancient Egyptian tradition. In Ancient Egyptian culture, mysticism was viewed not merely as a collection of religious rituals, but as an esoteric system that clarified the structure of the universe and man's place within the spiritual hierarchy. For the first time, the idea that chosen individuals could achieve enlightenment (attaining secret...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 15, 2026
Imaginary Person Michael Duunul (m.a.n)
preprint
This conceptual paper proposes an exploratory hypothesis concerning the relationship between repeated cognitive priming, linguistic suggestion, visualization, metacognition, and lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a state in which an individual becomes aware that they are dreaming while the dream continues. Previous research has demonstrated that lucid dreaming can occur during REM sleep and can...
Qeios
September 10, 2026
Wiesław L Galus
This article addresses David Chalmers's hard problem of consciousness by asking why information processing is accompanied by a subjective 'what it is like'. Its point of departure is the distinction between intelligence and phenomenal consciousness: the achievements of contemporary artificial intelligence show that reasoning, planning, language, and the accurate description of emotions do not...
Psychopathology
September 9, 2026
Ya-Jing Tang, Wen-Hao Wang, Chen Zhu et al.
Classic models of schizophrenia posit a complete loss of insight during psychotic episodes. However, clinical observations and recent phenomenological research, especially those on double bookkeeping, suggest that some patients retain partial self-observation capacities. This study explores the consciousness structure of schizophrenia, with particular attention to the partial insight phenomena....
September 7, 2026
Nathan Harter
The natural sciences have been reluctant to base findings upon certain types of experiences, which, for present purposes, we might call altered consciousness. At the very least, the following four experiences resemble one another, namely dreams, hallucinogens, delusions, and poetry. At their root, these so-called irruptions raise doubts about the reliability of what people perceive under their...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Han Lin
preprint
This paper examines the nature of subjective consciousness through three empirical entry points: the subjective blankness of the pre-natal state, the temporary cessation of consciousness in dreamless sleep, and the extreme case of language deprivation in Genie Wiley. It first reconstructs the Lucretian symmetry argument, contending that the fear of death is rooted in the instinctive attachment...
September 7, 2026
Karen Peoples
Karen Peoples, Ph.D., from the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) in San Francisco believes that telepathic dreams between patient and analyst are “surprisingly common” and can occur so frequently for some individuals as to seem “quite ordinary.” However, for Karen, the impact of shared similar dreams between her and her patient collided for her “with an electric shock,”...
arXiv (Cornell University)
September 5, 2026
Carson Rodrigues
preprint
Dreaming and large language model hallucination are usually studied apart, one as biology and the other as engineering. We argue they are two expressions of a single computation: generative reconstruction from distributed memory under incomplete constraints. Neither the sleeping brain nor an autoregressive model retrieves stored records; both synthesize output by recombining learned...