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March 29, 2018 Otto M. Rheinschmiedt
There is an irresistible affinity between the fictions of dreams and fiction writing. Dreams dazzle us by their vivid and succinct images, symbols, and metaphors, which come upon us when we are asleep. One might be tempted, given the dream’s constant supply of images, to call dreaming a nocturnal cinematographic event. Dreams are autobiographical fictions, they are the narrators of the...
March 29, 2018 Naphtali Wagner 1 citation
This chapter assumes that many fans who had been waiting impatiently for the Beatles&s; new album thought for the first few seconds that the clerk had accidentally wrapped up a classical album. Classical and psychedelic music delimit the eclectic, multistylistic and multigenre nature of Sgt. Pepper. Psychedelia, in contrast, is associated with altered states of consciousness – hallucinations,...
March 29, 2018 Otto M. Rheinschmiedt
One of the oldest depictions of a dream state is a mural in the complex of caves at Lascaux in southwest France, painted some 18,000 years ago by our European early modern human ancestors. The prehistoric cave paintings of the Perigord area of France, going back to 30,000 BC, are considered the cradle of art in human history but are also a celebration of the state of dreaming. Dreams not only...
Princeton University Press eBooks March 20, 2018 Alireza Doostdar
This chapter narrates a woman's encounter with the rammal , an occult specialist, that took her into the world of the metaphysical. The woman, Nafiseh, was a twenty-nine-year-old divorcée and an avid enthusiast of metaphysical experimentation. Nafiseh had honed her skills at lucid dreaming and claimed that she could pick up nonverbal communications from other people while asleep. She had...
March 20, 2018 Joseph Dillard
Dream Sociometry is an in-depth character and life issue interviewing protocol that is one aspect of Integral Deep Listening (IDL). IDL is itself a form of dream yoga, or a path to awakening from the dreamlike nature of reality, asleep or awake. IDL does not claim that life is a dream, only that it shares with dreaming the same common delusion that while asleep and dreaming one is awake. It...
March 15, 2018 Jennifer Windt 7 citations
Sleep is phenomenologically rich, supporting diverse kinds of conscious experience as well as transient loss of consciousness. Sleep is also cognitively and behaviorally rich, with different sleep stages supporting different kinds of memory processing as well as sleep behaviors ranging from subtle muscle twitches to seemingly goal-directed behaviors, as in sleepwalking, sleep talking, and rapid...
Neuroimage February 15, 2018 Michał Bola, Adam B. Barrett, Andrea Pigorini et al.
Loss of consciousness can result from a wide range of causes, including natural sleep and pharmacologically induced anesthesia. Important insights might thus come from identifying neuronal mechanisms of loss and re-emergence of consciousness independent of a specific manipulation. Therefore, to seek neuronal signatures of loss of consciousness common to sleep and anesthesia we analyzed...
Heart, lung & circulation February 2018 Irene Instenes, Eva Gjengedal, Leslie S P Eide et al.
Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) are increasingly performed in octogenarian patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS), including those with high surgical risk. Postoperative delirium (PD) is a common and serious complication in older patients, characterised by reduced awareness, change in consciousness, disturbance in logical thinking...
Frontiers in Neuroscience January 22, 2018 Camila Sanz, Federico Zamberlán, Earth Erowid et al. 112 citations
Ever since the modern rediscovery of psychedelic substances by Western society, several authors have independently proposed that their effects bear a high resemblance to the dreams and dreamlike experiences occurring naturally during the sleep-wake cycle. Recent studies in humans have provided neurophysiological evidence supporting this hypothesis. However, a rigorous comparative analysis of...
Revista De Estudios Hispanicos 2018 Marsha Kinder
This essay uses neuroscience to reframe the work of filmmaker Luis Buñuel. It shows not only how certain concepts in neuroscience illuminate his narrative experimentation but also how his experimental narratives expand our understanding of human consciousness. Drawing on the translational writings of neuroscientists Michael Gazzaniga and Antonio Damasio, who emphasize the role of narrative in...