Vascular organogenesis: dream or reality?

The world as a Dream, a Comparative Study in Ibn Arabi’s Thought and the Film Inception

Among movies that considered «dream», "Inception" got a notable fortune. The film, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, has been the source of many academic discussions around the world as well as having won many credible film awards. On the other side, Ibn Arabi, who has referred to him as the designer and theorist of theoretical mysticism, systematically has explained this subject based...

Can "inoperable" congenital heart defects become operable in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension? Dream or reality?

The decision whether to repair congenital heart defects in patients with raised pulmonary vascular resistance to alleviate pulmonary hypertension is a complex one. The degree of pulmonary vascular disease is of paramount importance. Operating on patients with pulmonary vascular resistance above a certain threshold runs the risk of postoperative persistent pulmonary hypertension and a worse long...

Musi : Dream or ( virtual ) Reality ? FABIO

Dreams, reality and memory: confabulations in lucid dreamers implicate reality-monitoring dysfunction in dream consciousness

INTRODUCTION Dreams might represent a window on altered states of consciousness with relevance to psychotic experiences, where reality monitoring is impaired. We examined reality monitoring in healthy, non-psychotic individuals with varying degrees of dream awareness using a task designed to assess confabulatory memory errors - a confusion regarding reality whereby information from the past fee...

Dreaming and Reality in Narcolepsy A MAJORITY OF PATIENTS WITH NARCOLEPSY HAVE VIVID DREAMS, OFTEN MISTAKING THEM FOR REALITY

In a collaborative study between academic centers in Boston and Leiden, the Netherlands (Wamsley et al. 2014), researchers studied dream delusions in 46 people with narcolepsy and cataplexy, comparing them with age-matched healthy controls (n = 41). The average age of the patients was 34.2 ± 10.9 years (SD), and 59 percent were female. A structured telephone interview was utilized to assess dre...