A variety of studies in dream research focused solely on the effect of waking life on dream content (overviews: (1-3)), even though several studies (4-8) indicate that the reverse relationship, i.e., dreams affecting subsequent waking life, can also be encountered frequently. Similar to the findings supporting the continuity hypothesis of dreaming (9) which states that waking life is reflected ...

Background: Infatuation and lovesickness are widespread and significant experiences in adolescence. Less is known about the connection between infatuation/lovesickness and sleep. The few studies, examining the link between infatuation and sleep quality show inconsistent results. The link between lovesickness and sleep as well as the link between infatuation/lovesickness and dreams has not been ...

André Jansson New media technologies create new preconditions for touristic practises and experiences. Throughout the process of a journey, from the dreams and plans of a trip to the re‐experiencing of old travel memories, technologies for information gathering, storing, dissemination, and representation are involved. Mediatization alters perceptions of place, distance, sociality, authentic...

In 1859, in On the Origin of Species, Darwin broached what he regarded to be the most vexing problem facing his theory of evolution-the lack of a rich fossil record predating the rise of shelly invertebrates that marks the beginning of the Cambrian Period of geologic time ( approximately 550 million years ago), an "inexplicable" absence that could be "truly urged as a valid argument" against hi...

As the title of his book suggests, McGinn presents an account of the human imagination and its role in such phenomena as mental imagery, dreams and the meaning of language. As he sees it, imagination is a central part of what distinguishes human beings from other animals--we are, as it were 'Homo imaginans' [5]. At the same time, however, contemporary analytical philosophy of mind has devoted l...

The DreamThrower is a novel technology that explores virtually creating, throwing and catching dreams. It detects users’ dream state by measuring rapid eye movement. Once the dream state is detected, sound and light stimuli is played to alter the dream. Users report on their dream, and they can send the stimuli that they have used to another person via an on-line website. A working prototype ac...

In the " General Considerations " one finds a short exposition on the " Present Position of Psychotherapyoutlining the development of this new branch from Freud via Adler and Jung to Stekel. Here the author states that one of the most important results of analysis is the insight into the development of instincts, into the dynamics of the conscious mind, of repression, and of dreams. The conflic...

This article was inspired by participant observation of a contemporary collaboration between empirically oriented philosophers of mind and neuroscientists. An encounter between this anthropologist of science and neurophilosophers in a Finnish sleep laboratory led to the following philosophical exploration of the intellectual space shared by neurophilosophy and science studies. Since these field...

S everal years ago, Prof. Randy Pausch, a young superstar in computer science, gave a much-discussed lecture at Carnegie Mellon. In an address that was advertised as his last, Pausch entertained a packed hall with his stories about his fulfillment of some rather spectacular childhood dreams (e.g., experiencing zero gravity; becoming an Imagineer for Disney). A leader in the creation of virtual ...