Increasing evidence supports the clinical view that alexithymia is associated with disturbed dreaming. However, a consistent, replicable pattern of relationships between alexithymia and different dreaming components has not yet been identified. Groups of sleep-disordered outpatients (N 580; 46.0 13.2 years) and nonclinical controls (N 145; 22.9 4.2 years) were administered the Toronto Alexithym...

The experience of acute pain serves a crucial biological purpose: it alerts a living organism to environmental dangers, inducing behavioural responses which protect the organism from further damage. In contrast, chronic pain arising from disease states and/or pathological functioning of the nervous system offers no advantage and may be debilitating to those afflicted. Despite recent advances in...

The DreamThrower is a novel technology that explores virtually creating, throwing and catching dreams. It detects users’ dream state by measuring rapid eye movement (REM). 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 protot...

This paper investigates the linguistic aspect of phenomenon secularisation, using as example English word “dream.” Comparative analysis structure dream narratives in Bible and modern texts allowed us to discern two major secularisation trends—humanizing divine mystifying human. In Bible, entering into contact with while asleep is always evaluated ambivalently: one fascinated by great favour fea...

In March 2003, the first version of the Mizar Problems for Theorem Proving (MPTP) was released. In the past ten years, such large formal knowledge bases have started to provide an interesting playground for combining deductive and inductive AI methods. The talk will discuss three related areas of application in which machine learning and general AI have been recently experimented with: (i) prem...

United States of America is known as a country that promises its people or immigrants who come to become successful by providing ‘American Dream’ the country’s national ethos. These are given equal chances bring out their dreams and aspirations. However, American Dream not always dream for everyone experienced characters in Christina Henriques’ novel The Book Unknown Americans. Issue injustice ...

The production of H2O2, which is essential to thyroid hormone synthesis, involves two NADPH oxidases: dual oxidases 1 and 2 (DuOx1 and DuOx2). A functional study with human DuOx genes and their 5'-flanking regions showed that DuOx1 and -2 promoters are different from thyroid-specific gene promoters. Furthermore, their transcriptional activities are not restricted to thyroid cells. While regulat...

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia manifested by vivid, often frightening dreams associated with simple or complex motor behavior during REM sleep. Patients appear to “act out their dreams,” in which the exhibited behaviors mirror the content of the dreams, and the dream content often involves a chasing or attacking theme. The polysomnographic features of RBD...

This study, for the first time, distinguishes between nightmares and bad dreams, measures the frequency of each using dream logs, and separately assesses the relation between nightmares, bad dreams, and well-being. Eighty-nine participants completed 7 measures of well-being and recorded their dreams for 4 consecutive weeks. The dream logs yielded estimated mean annual nightmare and bad-dream fr...

We have an audacious dream, we would like to develop a simulation and virtual reality system to support the decision making in European football (soccer). In this review, we summarize the efforts that we have made to fulfil this dream until recently. In addition, an introductory version of FerSML (Footballer and Football Simulation Markup Language) is presented in this paper.