Dream Consciousness What Happens To Consciousness During Sleep

Author : Jack Tanner
Publisher : Magus Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dream Consciousness: What Happens to Consciousness During Sleep? by Jack Tanner Pdf

You come to a fork in the road. On the right is the path to the world created by all minds. This is the objective world, the public world. On the left is the path to the world created by your own mind, your own unconscious. This is your dream world, your private world. Your dream world changes every time you go sleep. There is no continuity of space and time. The objective world, by contrast, stays the same every time you wake up. There is complete continuity of space and time. That's the difference between an objective, public experience and a subjective, private experience. Your consciousness is designed for facing the public world. It becomes drastically disoriented when it faces the private world. Yet it also has the chance to do something astounding – to enter and probe your own mind and discover all of its greatest and deepest secrets. How else will you know yourself if you don't know your own mind? Only dreams can take you there. It's time to delve into the mysteries and extraordinary powers of dreams.

Author : Celia Green,Charles McCreery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317799092

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Lucid Dreaming by Celia Green,Charles McCreery Pdf

Lucid dreams are dreams in which a person becomes aware that they are dreaming. They are different from ordinary dreams, not just because of the dreamer's awareness that they are dreaming, but because lucid dreams are often strikingly realistic and may be emotionally charged to the point of elation. Celia Green and Charles McCreery have written a unique introduction to lucid dreams that will appeal to the specialist and general reader alike. The authors explore the experience of lucid dreaming, relate it to other experiences such as out-of-the-body experiences (to which they see it as closely related) and apparitions, and look at how lucid dreams can be induced and controlled. They explore their use for therapeutic purposes such as counteracting nightmares. Their study is illustrated throughout with many case histories.

Author : J. Gackenbach,S. LaBarge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781475704235

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Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain by J. Gackenbach,S. LaBarge Pdf

A conscious mind in a sleeping brain: the title of this book provides a vivid image of the phenomenon of lucid dreaming, in which dreamers are consciously aware that they are dreaming while they seem to be soundly asleep. Lucid dreamers could be said to be awake to their inner worlds while they are asleep to the external world. Of the many questions that this singular phenomenon may raise, two are foremost: What is consciousness? And what is sleep? Although we cannot pro vide complete answers to either question here, we can at least explain the sense in which we are using the two terms. We say lucid dreamers are conscious because their subjective reports and behavior indicate that they are explicitly aware of the fact that they are asleep and dreaming; in other words, they are reflectively conscious of themselves. We say lucid dreamers are asleep primarily because they are not in sensory contact with the external world, and also because research shows physiological signs of what is conventionally considered REM sleep. The evidence presented in this book-preliminary as it is-still ought to make it clear that lucid dreaming is an experiential and physiological reality. Whether we should consider it a paradoxical form of sleep or a paradoxical form of waking or something else entirely, it seems too early to tell.

Author : Antonio Zadra,Robert Stickgold
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781324020295

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When Brains Dream by Antonio Zadra,Robert Stickgold Pdf

"A truly comprehensive, scientifically rigorous and utterly fascinating account of when, how, and why we dream. Put simply, When Brains Dream is the essential guide to dreaming." —Matthew Walker, author of Why We Sleep Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when nineteenth-century scientists first attempted to unravel them. Why do we dream? Do dreams hold psychological meaning or are they merely the reflection of random brain activity? What purpose do dreams serve? When Brains Dream addresses these core questions about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers, it debunks common myths that we only dream in REM sleep, for example—while acknowledging the mysteries that persist around both the science and experience of dreaming. Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold bring together state-of-the-art neuroscientific ideas and findings to propose a new and innovative model of dream function called NEXTUP—Network Exploration to Understand Possibilities. By detailing this model’s workings, they help readers understand key features of several types of dreams, from prophetic dreams to nightmares and lucid dreams. When Brains Dream reveals recent discoveries about the sleeping brain and the many ways in which dreams are psychologically, and neurologically, meaningful experiences; explores a host of dream-related disorders; and explains how dreams can facilitate creativity and be a source of personal insight. Making an eloquent and engaging case for why the human brain needs to dream, When Brains Dream offers compelling answers to age-old questions about the mysteries of sleep.

Author : Owen Flanagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195349580

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Dreaming Souls by Owen Flanagan Pdf

What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"? With expertise in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Owen Flanagan is uniquely qualified to answer these questions. And in Dreaming Souls he provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Flanagan argues that while sleep has a clear biological function and adaptive value, dreams are merely side effects, "free riders," irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But dreams are hardly unimportant. Indeed, Flanagan argues that dreams are self-expressive, the result of our need to find or to create meaning, even when we're sleeping. Rejecting Freud's theory of manifest and latent content--of repressed wishes appearing in disguised form--Flanagan shows how brainstem activity during sleep generates a jumbled profusion of memories, images, thoughts, emotions, and desires, which the cerebral cortex then attempts to shape into a more or less coherent story. Such dream-narratives range from the relatively mundane worries of non REM sleep to the fantastic confabulations of deep REM that resemble psychotic episodes in their strangeness. But however bizarre these narratives may be, they can shed light on our mental life, our well being, and our sense of self. Written with clarity, lively wit, and remarkable insight, Dreaming Souls offers a fascinating new way of apprehending one of the oldest mysteries of mental life.

Author : Dean Cvetkovic,Irena Cosic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642180477

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States of Consciousness by Dean Cvetkovic,Irena Cosic Pdf

In this accessible overview of current knowledge, an expert team of editors and authors describe experimental approaches to consciousness. These approaches are shedding light on some of the hitherto unknown aspects of the distinct states of human consciousness, including the waking state, different states of sleep and dreaming, meditation and more. The book presents the latest research studies by the contributing authors, whose specialities span neuroscience, neurology, biomedical engineering, clinical psychology and psychophysiology, psychosocial medicine and anthropology. Overall this anthology provides the reader with a clear picture of how different states of consciousness can be defined, experimentally measured and analysed. A future byproduct of this knowledge may be anticipated in the development of systematic corrective treatments for many disorders and pathological problems of consciousness.

Author : Celia Elizabeth Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Lucid dreams
ISBN : OCLC:1319409235

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Lucid Dreaming by Celia Elizabeth Green Pdf

Author : Nicholas Tranquillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319072968

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Dream Consciousness by Nicholas Tranquillo Pdf

This book presents three lectures by Allan Hobson, entitled “The William James Lectures on Dream Consciousness”. The three lectures expose the new psychology, the new physiology and the new philosophy that derive from and support the protoconsciousness hypothesis of dreaming. They review in detail many of the studies on sleep and dreaming conducted since the days of Sigmund Freud. Following the lectures are commentaries written by scholars whose expertise covers a wide range of scientific disciplines including, but not limited to, philosophy, psychology, neurology, neuropsychology, cognitive science, biology and animal sciences. The commentaries each answer a specific question in relation to Hobson’s lectures and his premise that dreaming is an altered state of consciousness. Capitalizing on a vast amount of data, the lectures and commentaries provide undisputed evidence that sleep consists of a well-organized sequence of subtly orchestrated brain states that undoubtedly play a crucial function in the maintenance of normal brain functions. These functions include both basic homeostatic processes necessary to keep the organism alive as well as the highest cognitive functions including perception, decision making, learning and consciousness.

Author : Trevor A. Harley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107125285

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The Science of Consciousness by Trevor A. Harley Pdf

An introduction to the psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience of consciousness, including sleep, dreaming, meditative, and altered states.

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191577604

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Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction by J. Allan Hobson Pdf

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness. J. Allan Hobson investigates his own dreams to illustrate and explain some of the fascinating discoveries of modern sleep science, while challenging some of the traditionally accepted theories about the meaning of dreams. He reveals how dreaming maintains and develops the mind, why we go crazy in our dreams in order to avoid doing so when we are awake, and why sleep is not just good for health but essential for life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Brain
ISBN : 1138453846

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Psychodynamic Neurology by J. Allan Hobson Pdf

"Our brains plan conscious experience in our sleep using our waking experience only to correct a built-in, virtual reality model of the world that becomes more fully active when we sleep. We become subjectively aware of that virtual reality model when we dream. Our dreams are a mixture of anticipated virtual and remembered real experience. This book tells the story of now neuroscience has helped us reach this startling and exciting conclusion and how the new scientific model builds upon and also departs from the dream theories of the past. It recounts how modern sleep and dream science developed from its inception in 1953 with the discovery of REM sleep and its association with dreaming. It explains how initial enthusiasm for Freud's dream theory waned and ultimately gave way to the alternative ideas described in detail throughout this book"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780861711239

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Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying by Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho Pdf

This absorbing account of a dialogue between leading Western scientists and the foremost representative of Buddhism today, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, features narration by Francisco Varela, an internationally recognized neuroscientist. Engrossing and highly readable, the conversations will be of merit to any reader interested in psychology, neuroscience, Buddhism, or the alternative worlds of dreams. 10 illustrations. 3 color photos.

Author : Melanie G. Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 1003367712

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The Dreaming Mind by Melanie G. Rosen Pdf

"The Dreaming Mind provides an insightful, interdisciplinary approach to the study of dreaming, exploring its nature and examining some of the implications of dream states for theories of consciousness, cognition and the self. Offering an integrative approach into our understanding of dreams and the mind, it is essential reading for students and researchers of consciousness, dreams, philosophy and cognitive sciences, as well as anyone who is curious about dreaming"--

Author : Ernest Lawrence Rossi
Publisher : Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 1891944991

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Dreams, Consciousness, Spirit by Ernest Lawrence Rossi Pdf

Rev. ed. of: Dreams and the growth of personality. 2nd ed. c1985.

Author : David Foulkes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674037168

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Children’s Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness by David Foulkes Pdf

David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children’s dreaming, and a pioneer of sleep laboratory research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it—active stories in which the dreamer is an actor—appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. He argues that this late development of dreaming suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness. Foulkes offers a spirited defense of the independence of the psychological realm, and the legitimacy of studying it without either psychoanalytic over-interpretation or neurophysiological reductionism.