DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
November 1, 2025
Hamidreza Shakerin
This Paper Offers the first comprehensive critique of the naturalistic psychological explanation that interprets near-death experiences (NDEs) as mere rereading or reconstruction of brain-stored memories. Physicalists claim that classic NDE features—out-of-body perception, tunnel experience, life review, luminous beings—are nothing but neural reactivation of archived personal engrams under...
Current Psychiatry Reports
November 1, 2025
Christine J So, Courtney J Bolstad, Katherine E Miller
We review the recent published literature on nightmare-focused interventions, including imagery rehearsal therapy, for trauma-exposed adult populations. Imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) and prazosin remain the most supported treatments, though results vary across studies. New consensus guidelines have led to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Nightmares (CBT-N), which integrates rescripting,...
Incursiuni în imaginar
October 23, 2025
Liliana Danciu
The present study aims to capture the way in which the Romanian writer Dumitru Țepeneag deconstructs the myth in order to reconstruct it in the mystical atmosphere of reverie which is highly experienced by the main character of the novel Nunțile necesare (The Necessary Marriage). The theoretician of the aesthetic oneirism in Romanian literature proves to be a talented writer who capitalizes on...
Journal of Life Sciences Research and Reviews
October 22, 2025
Independent Researcher, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia, Robert A Dielenberg
This paper introduces the Fixation-Projection Framework (F-P), a conceptual framework that models the brain as a fixation–projection system. Fixations are defined as functional set points instantiated in biological tissue, from synaptic stabilizations to beliefs, while and projections are cast as the remapping and transmission of fixated content. Based on this, it is argued that the F-P...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
October 16, 2025
Rasmus Sinn, Marc Borner
Abstract Jean-Paul Sartre develops a phenomenological account of dreaming in his early work on the imaginary. Providing a brief but rich analysis, he emphasizes the active and imaginative nature of consciousness during dreaming and distinguished it sharply from perception. This paper revisits Sartre’s dream theory in light of the neuroscientific and philosophical framework of Predictive...
LIFE International Journal of Health and Life-Sciences
October 14, 2025
Dustin Warden
This case study documents the integrative treatment of a woman with chronic schizophrenia, complex PTSD, and comorbid anxiety and depression, incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her primary symptoms included persistent hallucinations, trauma-driven nightmares, and emotional dysregulation. Traumatic themes of incest, supernatural forces, and violent dream figures dominated her inner...
Journal of Sleep Research
October 1, 2025
Claudia Picard-Deland, Matteo Cesari, Ambra Stefani et al.
Parasomnias are abnormal behaviours or mental experiences during sleep or the sleep-wake transition. As disorders of arousal (DOA) or REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) can be difficult to capture in the sleep laboratory and may need to be diagnosed in large communities, new home diagnostic devices are being developed, including actigraphy, EEG headbands, as well as 2D infrared and 3D time of...
September 30, 2025
Mariana Pereira
Dreaming is a universal yet poorly understood phenomenon. This thesis investigates the neural mechanisms of dream traits and states using multimodal neuroimaging, including structural and functional MRI, diffusion imaging, and simultaneous EEG/fMRI. By addressing methodological challenges and leveraging large-scale datasets, the studies provide novel insights into the neural correlates of dream...
Scientific Reports
September 29, 2025
Nerea L Herrero, Yohann Corfdir, Aylin A Vázquez-Chenlo et al.
Consciousness does not always fade during sleep. Instead, it can re-emerge in the form of non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC), such as lucid dreams (LDs), sleep paralysis (SP), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and false awakenings (FAs). While some of these states have been studied phenomenologically, their neurophysiological underpinnings remain unclear. In this exploratory study, we...
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
September 24, 2025
Jorge Villanueva
A Chaotic Life is a three-volume series in which Stanley Krippner (b.1932), a well-known American parapsychologist (and much more), recounts his life from his childhood, recalling his university years, recounting his reactions to various episodes of the Second World War and passages from his adult life.Krippner has visited more than one hundred countries and has interacted with cultures and...