Coleridge named his own son who constituted the panoply from whose ideas Coleridge mounted his own dream theory almost a century before Freud's Interpretation of dreams (1900). A desideratum is sometimes lodged against books like this on lines that they are not explicit about the moment of interface between creative act and physiological process. In this instance, the dream act and the medical ...

This special issue is devoted to exploring the manifestations of Mr. Science in May Fourth China and examining this icon’s significance not only China’s modern era but also our understandings science society beyond. In introduction, co-editors make a case for critically engaging and, by extension, questions early twentieth century China, particularly light emergence as scientific technological ...

People spent 5 min before sleep at home writing their stream of thought as they suppressed thoughts of a target person, thought of the person, or wrote freely after mentioning the person. These presleep references generally prompted people to report increased dreaming about the person. However, suppression instructions were particularly likely to have this influence, increasing dreaming about t...

Advances in media and communication technology have opened up new avenues for understanding consciousness through observation of behaviour in virtual environments. A convergence of progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer science should consider the powerful role of conscious and unconscious states as an interface between self and virtual worlds. In this chapter, we review the premise of...