Dreaming

Dreaming Cogniton and Acculturation Processes

The author suggests that dreaming cognition be modeled as reflecting dynamic, integrative, culturallysensitive, and historically holistic methods. The author conceptualizes six models of dreaming cognition. 1) Freudian dreaming model, 2) Jungian analytic model, 3) neurocognitive or neurophysiological dreaming model, 4) acculturative dreaming brain model (Sang Bok Lee, 2005: ”Lee Acculturation D...

آرزواندیشی به منزله یک آسیب اعتقادی بر پایه منابع اسلامی

     Damage on the beliefs of an individual or a community can affect the public health. The main objective of this study was to explain and comment on dreaming as a belief-related pathology in religious beliefs sanity. By relying on the eternal power of God, the religious person is exposed to a kind of damage, which makes him to feel himself eligible for the enjoyment of so...

Transcendental consciousness wakes up in dreaming and deep sleep Commentary on “ The neurobiology of consciousness : Lucid dreaming wakes up ” by J . Allan Hobson

Hobson (2009) highlights the contribution of lucid dreaming research to the field of consciousness study. Hobson (2009) also sites a lack of paradigms and theoretical models of consciousness to advance lucid dreaming research. However in addition to Hobsons’ AIM model (Hobson, Pace-Schott & Stickgold, 2000), there exists discussions of developmental models of consciousness that include lucid dr...

Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms.

The paradigmatic assumption that REM sleep is the physiological equivalent of dreaming is in need of fundamental revision. A mounting body of evidence suggests that dreaming and REM sleep are dissociable states, and that dreaming is controlled by forebrain mechanisms. Recent neuropsychological, radiological, and pharmacological findings suggest that the cholinergic brain stem mechanisms that co...

Dreaming Dreaming in Haitian Vodou: Vouchsafe, Guide, and Source of Liturgical Novelty

Lucid Dreaming – Dreams of Clarity

Although the concept of ‘lucid dreaming’ was fi rst coined by Frederik Willems van Eeden, a Dutch psychiatrist, and introduced at the meeting of The Society for Psychical Research held on 22 April 1913, the phenomenon of lucid dreaming was already known in earlier historical periods and its descriptions can be found in writings of Aristotle. However, modern lucid dreaming research was establish...