Journal of Sleep Research
August 1, 2025
Marta Spinoni, Serena Scarpelli, Ilaria Di Pasquale Benedetti et al.
2 citations
The gestational period is a sensitive time marked by significant changes that can affect women's sleep and dreaming processes, with an augmented frequency and recall of dreams suggesting that dreaming represents an adaptive mechanism of emotional regulation. This study investigates the relationship between pregnancy-related variables, alexithymia, and depressive symptoms in influencing dream...
July 21, 2025
Frederick Thomas, Katelynn Andrews
The fundamental social motives framework has generated several empirical findings demonstrating the activation of a motivational system that guides conscious (live) cognition and downstream behavior in functional ways. This evolutionary view of motivation describes social cognition as an inner motivational state designed to recognize, analyze, and mobilize behaviour to manage social threats or...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
July 16, 2025
Borjan Milinkovic, Anil K. Seth, Lionel Barnett et al.
2 citations
preprint
Conscious experience depends on the coordinated activity of neural processes that span multiple scales—from synapses to whole-brain dynamics. A recently introduced measure, dynamical independence, identifies, characterises and quantifies these multi-scale relationships using an information-theoretic dimensionality-reduction approach. Here, we use DI to examine changes in emergent dynamical...
Art&Sensorium
July 6, 2025
Daniel Mirante
Awe-inspiring experiences and aesthetic rituals can induce profound epistemic transformations while also intersecting with structures of power. This review examines diverse case studies – from Amazonian shamanic rituals to ancient Egyptian temple arts, Surrealist dream experiments, transpersonal psychology, and science-fiction cyberculture – to understand how designed experiences of awe and...
Al-Aasar
July 2, 2025
زنیرہ صدیق
This study explores Khafif Makhfi ki Khwab Beeti, a groundbreaking Urdu novel by Mirza Athar Baig, through the lenses of parapsychology, altered states of consciousness, and postmodern narrative theory. Baig’s experimental narrative blends elements of metafiction, philosophical inquiry, and linguistic hybridity to challenge traditional literary forms. The protagonist, Khafif Makhfi, is not only...
Contemporary Journal of Social Science Review
July 2, 2025
Wania Gul, Babar Riaz
The present research examines James Joyce's Finnegans Wake from a stylistic perspective, with a specific emphasis on two of its most striking narrative strategies: neologism and stream-of-consciousness. The study examines how Joyce creates an unconscious-like linguistic atmosphere that imitates yet subverts unconscious mental processes and conventional culture. Based on the stylistic model of...
International Journal of English Studies
July 1, 2025
L. M. González Rodríguez
Lyn Hejinian, a prominent figure in Language poetry, is strongly committed to the task of dismantling poetic conventions by envisaging a new language that resists the constraints of linearity and referentiality. In The Book of a Thousand Eyes (2012), she explores the dream world in order to delve into the mechanics of the writing process, while playing with language and experience at various...
Journal of Applied Consciousness Studies
July 1, 2025
Ayush Srivastava
Background: Dreams have intrigued thinkers across disciplines due to their immersive and often perplexing nature. They raise fundamental questions regarding consciousness, knowledge, morality, and the self. Traditional views often reject the conscious nature of dreams, while recent developments in lucid dream research challenge these assumptions. Aims and Objectives: This paper explores whether...
Consciousness and Cognition
July 1, 2025
Gulshan Kumar, Safoora Naaz, Nahida Jabin et al.
Studies on the electrophysiological and phenomenological aspects of dream experiences provide insight on consciousness during sleep. Whole night polysomnography (PSG) studies were conducted among 29 healthy young participants with high dream recall abilities. Dreams reports were collected during the second night by multiple awakening protocol. On the third night, participants were presented...
June 30, 2025
Paul Thagard
Abstract The chapter explores the concept of compound consciousness by using ‘cringe’ as a contemporary example. It outlines how complex experiences like cringe unify emotion, perception, and internal sensations. The author introduces the Neural Binding and Coherence (NBC) theory, which uses neural representation, binding, and coherence, to explain diverse conscious phenomena. These mechanisms...