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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Abstract Emotional processing is a crucial adaptive function. Research suggests that sleep, particularly rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, may have a role in processing the emotional load of past events. Notably, dream experiences may offer insight into this nighttime process. Some studies have reported increased emotionality in dreams as the night progresses, possibly reflecting ongoing...
Even though anecdotal evidence reveals them as ubiquitous phenomena, the performance anxiety dreams of music performers have not been studied systematically to date in scholarly research. This is all the more surprising given the large research literature on music performance anxiety as a wakeful experience, and the widely accepted “continuity hypothesis” in dream research that asserts...
This chapter examines the use of psilocybin mushrooms (known as teonanacatl or “the flesh of gods”) and Mexican tarragon (yauhtli, Tagetes lucida) for therapeutic purposes in Nahua medicine. These entheogenic substances are associated with thunderbolt and rain deities, part of a symbolic complex known as “the healing of the thunderbolt,” reflecting the influence of Tlaloc, the god of rain and...
Abstract Spontaneous thoughts and experiences, such as dreaming and mind wandering, form a significant part of our conscious mental lives. Yet, the precise phenomenological and content-related similarities and differences between dreaming and waking mind wandering remain insufficiently understood. In this study, we address this gap by comparing 340 dreaming and mind wandering questionnaire...
This paper presents and examines Andrew Baxter’s theory of the origin of dreams. In an essay of over 200 pages, he explores various conceptions and accounts of dreaming, develops a distinctive and elaborate theory of their occurrence, and arrives at the striking conclusion that all dreams are produced by external spirits or immaterial (ghost-like) agents. Remarkably, this extraordinary...