Dreams preoccupied the Greek and Roman world in antiquity, therefore they had a prominent role in social, philosophical, religious, historical and political life of those times. They were considered as omens and prophetic signs of future events in private and public life, and that was particularly accentuated when elements of actions which took place in the plot of dreams were associated direct...

Many studies have investigated the effect of waking experience, e.g., pre-sleep stimuli, stress, major life events, traumata, on dream content and have supported the so-called continuity hypothesis of dreaming, i. e. waking experience is reflected in dreams (Overviews: 1-3). On the other hand, systematic research on the effects of drams on subsequent waking life is scarce, although a considerab...

This paper presents an evolutionary argument for the role of dreams in the development of human cognitive processes. While a theory by Revonsuo (2000) proposes that dreams allow for threat rehearsal and therefore provide an evolutionary advantage, the goal of this paper is to extend this argument by commenting on other fitness-enhancing aspects of dreams. Rather than a simple threat rehearsal m...

When we understand the nature and technology in hands it is possible to create and simulate many unusual things. In this regard, with information about science of dreams, its nature and the image processing technology, it is possible to simulate the dream like patterns which can be implemented to robots for improving its intelligence. The model proposed in this paper is based on the concept tha...

I wish to convey the enthusiasm that I feel about dreams, their significance in clinical work, and the many new ways that we have learned to understand them. I would also like to familiarize the reader with some findings about dreams that have come from neurobiologists and cognitive scientists. Some of those researchers have made broadside attacks on the psychoanalytic theory of dreams and the ...

How does the brain control dreams? New science shows that a small node of cells in the medulla - the most primitive part of the brain - may function to control REM sleep, the brain state that underlies dreaming.

How engineering enabled abstraction in computer science. 1. Turning dreams into reality What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? – Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 Although Ecclesiastes says “No,” engineers and computer scientists say “Yes, there are things that are new under the ...

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...

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In popular books about science these days, big theories about Big Questions are everywhere. A scan through the science shelves of your local bookshop will produce titles such as “The Origins of Order”, “Dreams of a Final Theory”, “Consciousness Explained”, and many more, describing unifying theories about elementary particles, evolution, life, mind, and culture. Is the time now ripe for the div...