1. Dreams are wish fulfillment. Alternatively, following Freud, dreams are the guardian of sleep. 2. Dreams are an attempt at problem solving. This has been particularly elaborated by French. 3. Dreams are a manifestation of certain psychological processes of which the dreamer is totally unaware; that is, dreams spring from the unconscious. 4. The content of dreams is continuous with the conten...

Gamification presents an opportunity to model and guide the enculturation process of computer science undergraduates. It can also make the matriculation journey more engaging for a broader range of students if done correctly. This paper looks at design considerations, potential benefits and the challenges with implementing meaningful gamification in a department of computer science. It describe...

T old saying “If you pinch yourself and experience pain you cannot dream” implicate that dreams might be void of pain sensations. Symons (1) wrote that having pain dreams is maladaptive because acute pain should be result in awakening (it might be a potentially dangerous situation). Although there had been examples of pain dreams published (2-3), the first content analytic study of 119 REM awak...

The relationship among parasomnias, sleep-related violence (SRV), and psychosis has neither been reported nor studied. The authors introduce the phenomenon of psychotic dream-related aggression (PDRA) and, through a review of the research on manifest dreams, the continuity of thinking across the sleep–wake cycle, and SRV, argue for its inclusion alongside the parasomnias of DSM-IV. Five cases a...

be cannot goveem her."-BAGLIVI. MAN has, since prehistoric times, sought to explain the natural phenomena of the world in which he lived in terms which he found most easy to understand. What we call the scientific discipline was evolved as a purposeful and basic method which made it possible to give unity and intelligibility to the facts of nature. rhis method utilises observation, measurement,...

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...