OBJECTIVE To be the first to compare EEG power spectra during sleep onset REM periods (SOREMP) and sleep onset NREM periods (NREMP) in normal individuals and relate this to dream appearance processes underlying these different types of sleep periods. METHODS Eight healthy undergraduates spent 7 consecutive nights in the sleep lab including 4 nights for SOREMP elicitation using the Sleep Inter...

Many recently bereaved persons experience vivid and deeply meaningful dreams featuring the presence of the deceased that may reflect and impact the process of mourning. The present study surveyed 278 bereaved persons regarding their own perspective of the relationship between dreams and the mourning process. Fifty eight percent of respondents reported dreams of their deceased loved ones, with v...

Since the publication of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, dream interpretation has been a standard technique often used in psychotherapy. However, empirical studies about the frequency of working on dreams in therapy are lacking. The present study elicited, via a self-developed questionnaire, various aspects of work on dreams applied by psychotherapists in private practice. The fin...

Pipe dreams represent permutations pictorially as a series of crossing pipes. Recent applications of pipe dreams include the calculation of Schubert polynomials, fillings of moon polyominoes, and in the combinatorics of antidiagonal simplicial complexes. These applications associate pipe dreams to words of elementary symmetric transpositions via a canonical mapping. However, this canonical mapp...

BACKGROUND This study examined the frequency and nature of pregnancy-related dreams in pregnant women in a family practice center and assessed the extent such dreams were discussed with providers of prenatal care. METHODS Pregnant women 18 years of age or older who were receiving prenatal care at the University of Missouri-Columbia Family Medical Care Center responded to a two-page self-admin...

Introduction The casual observer might suppose that dreams are the stuff of which Disney movies are made. Mention the concept of dreams, and many will return in their memories to those childhood nightdreams that either delighted or terrified. Yet others, who have traveled along the higher education highway, will hear the word “dreams” and immediately think of Sigmund Freud and his particular sl...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies of dreams after trauma and stress have found increases in the power of the central image of the dream. However, it has been difficult to perform properly controlled studies of dreams before and after trauma. The present study is designed to compare dreams before and after 9/11/01 in the same persons. The assumption is that the events of 9/11 produced mild trauma or at...

dream as a window to the invisible world is brought up in the works of most philosophers, theologians, and mystics, denoting the importance of dreams. from among the philosophers and mystics, ṣadr al-muti’allihīn of shīrāz and ibn ‘arabī have dealt in detail with discourses concerning dreams. mullā ṣadrā and ibn ‘arabī accord an extensive role concerning dreams to the world of imagination and t...

the meaning of dreams. The ancient Egyptians believed dreams possessed oracular power—in the Bible, for example, Joseph’s elucidation of Pharaoh’s dream averted seven years of famine. Other cultures have interpreted dreams as inspirational, curative or alternative reality. During the past century, scientists have offered conflicting psychological and neuroscientific explanations for dreams. In ...

The ancient Egyptians believed dreams possessed oracular power—in the Bible, for example, Joseph’s elucidation of Pharaoh’s dream averted seven years of famine. Other cultures have interpreted dreams as inspirational, curative or alternative reality. During the past century, scientists have offered conflicting psychological and neuroscientific explanations for dreams. In 1900, with the publicat...