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Strengths and Weaknesses of McNamara's Evolutionary Psychological Model of Dreaming

Evolutionary Psychology, 2010
This article includes a brief overview of McNamara's (2004) evolutionary model of dreaming. The strengths and weaknesses of this model are then evaluated in terms of its consonance with measurable neurological and biological properties of dreaming, its ...
Sandra Olliges
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Dreaming during the Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dream reports reveals mental suffering related to fear of contagion

PLoS ONE, 2020
The current global threat brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread social isolation, posing new challenges in dealing with metal suffering related to social distancing, and in quickly learning new social habits intended to prevent ...
N. Mota, J. Weissheimer, Marina Ribeiro, Mizziara M. M. De Paiva, Juliana Avilla-Souza, G. Simabucuru, M. Chaves, Lucas Cecchi, J. Cirne, G. Cecchi, Cilene Rodrigues, M. Copelli, S. Ribeiro   +12 more
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Sleep fragmentation and lucid dreaming [PDF]

, 2020
Lucid dreaming-the phenomenon of experiencing waking levels of self-reflection within one's dreams-is associated with more wake-like levels of neural activation in prefrontal brain regions.
Dresler, M., Peters, E., Gorman, L., Rak, M., Mangiaruga, A., Steiger, A., Gott, J., Weber, F., Talamini, L., Weber, Frederik, Chaabou, Mahmoud, van Hooijdonk, C., Bovy, Leonore, Wilson, Steven, van Hooijdonk, Carmen F.M., Peters, Emma, Mangiaruga, Anastasia, Gorman, Luke, van Hooijdonk, Carmen F. M., Dresler, Martin, van Hooijdonk, C.F.M., Varatheeswaran, Rathiga, Rak, Michael, Gott, Jarrod, Steiger, Axel, Varatheeswaran, R., Talamini, Lucia, Wilson, S., Chaabou, M., Bovy, L., Hooijdonk, C.F.M. van, Gott, J.A., Weber, F.D.   +32 more
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Dreaming [PDF]

, 1906
[Verse 1] Out in the still summers evening Into my heart comes a feeling of love that’s true and undying; For you, sweetheart, I am sighing. Down by the stream, where we wander’d Under the pale moonlight beaming, There’s where I linger and dream of you
Dailey, J. Anton, Heiser, L. W.
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Increased Lucid Dreaming Frequency in Narcolepsy

Sleep, 2015
Axel Steiger, Martin Dresler, Michael Schredl   +2 more
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Virtual reality training of lucid dreaming

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2020
Metacognitive reflections on one's current state of mind are largely absent during dreaming. Lucid dreaming as the exception to this rule is a rare phenomenon; however, its occurrence can be facilitated through cognitive training.
Jarrod A. Gott, Leonore Bovy, E. Peters, Sofia Tzioridou, Stefano Meo, Ç. Demirel, M. J. Esfahani, Pedro Reis Oliveira, Thomas Houweling, A. Orticoni, A. Rademaker, Diede Booltink, R. Varatheeswaran, C. V. van Hooijdonk, Mahmoud Chaabou, Anastasia Mangiaruga, E. van den Berge, F. Weber, Simone M. Ritter, M. Dresler   +19 more
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Dreams of the rarebit fiend: Food and diet as instigators of bizarre and disturbing dreams

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
In the early 1900s, the Dream of the Rarebit Fiend comic strip conveyed how the spicy cheese dish Welsh rarebit leads to bizarre and disturbing dreams. Today, the perception that foods disturb dreaming persists.
Tore eNielsen, Russell A. Powell
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EEG Signal Diversity Varies With Sleep Stage and Aspects of Dream Experience

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Several theories link consciousness to complex cortical dynamics, as suggested by comparison of brain signal diversity between conscious states and states where consciousness is lost or reduced.
Arnfinn Aamodt, André Sevenius Nilsen, Benjamin Thürer, Fatemeh Hasanzadeh Moghadam, Nils Kauppi, Bjørn Erik Juel, Johan Frederik Storm   +6 more
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Aphantasia, imagination and dreaming

, 2020
Aphantasia is a recently discovered disorder characterised by the total incapacity to generate visual forms of mental imagery. This paper proposes that aphantasia raises important theoretical concerns for the ongoing debate in the philosophy and science ...
Cecily M. K. Whiteley
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Humour as social dreaming:Stand-up comedy as therapeutic performance [PDF]

, 2012
Stand-up comedy binds dramatic cultural spectacle to ritualised, intimate exposure. Examining ‘case’ examples from live comic performance, this paper describes stand-up as a kind of social dreaming.
MacRury, Iain
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