Dreaming As Delirium

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262581795

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Dreaming as Delirium by J. Allan Hobson Pdf

In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming. With a new foreword by the author. In this book, J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming. Drawing on his work both as a sleep researcher and as a psychiatrist, Hobson looks in particular at the strikingly similar chemical characteristics of the states of dreaming and psychosis. His underlying theme is that the form of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, and memories derive from specific nerve cells and electrochemical impulses described by neuroscientists. Among the questions Hobson explores are: What are dreams? Do they have any hidden meaning, or are they simply emotionally salient images whose peculiar narrative structure refects the unique neurophysiology of sleep? And what is the relationship between the delirium of our dream life and psychosis? Originally published by Little, Brown under the title The Chemistry of Conscious States.

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : OCLC:277414494

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Dreaming as Delirium by J. Allan Hobson Pdf

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Jennifer M. Windt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262028677

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Dreaming by Jennifer M. Windt Pdf

A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary consciousness studies. Dreams, conceived as conscious experience or phenomenal states during sleep, offer an important contrast condition for theories of consciousness and the self. Yet, although there is a wealth of empirical research on sleep and dreaming, its potential contribution to consciousness research and philosophy of mind is largely overlooked. This might be due, in part, to a lack of conceptual clarity and an underlying disagreement about the nature of the phenomenon of dreaming itself. In Dreaming, Jennifer Windt lays the groundwork for solving this problem. She develops a conceptual framework describing not only what it means to say that dreams are conscious experiences but also how to locate dreams relative to such concepts as perception, hallucination, and imagination, as well as thinking, knowledge, belief, deception, and self-consciousness. Arguing that a conceptual framework must be not only conceptually sound but also phenomenologically plausible and carefully informed by neuroscientific research, Windt integrates her review of philosophical work on dreaming, both historical and contemporary, with a survey of the most important empirical findings. This allows her to work toward a systematic and comprehensive new theoretical understanding of dreaming informed by a critical reading of contemporary research findings. Windt's account demonstrates that a philosophical analysis of the concept of dreaming can provide an important enrichment and extension to the conceptual repertoire of discussions of consciousness and the self and raises new questions for future research.

Author : Vijay Srinath Kanchi
Publisher : DK Printworld (P) Ltd
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9788124611807

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Sleeping to Dream and Dreaming to Wake Up! by Vijay Srinath Kanchi Pdf

Dreams play a significant role in our life, meaningfully affecting us in the development of our personality and our spiritual journey. They are an everyday experience for any human being. Dreams have always been of great interest to poets and philosophers alike since ancient times and examples are aplenty in Indian and Western scriptures. However, it is an uphill task for an ordinary person to fully appreciate the intricacies and significance of dreams in the day-to-day life. It is here that this book proves as an invaluable guide providing deep understanding on the nature of dream and sleep. This book is a repertoire of human wisdom – gathered for centuries and attested by the modern science – offering enormous insights into our dream and deep-sleep states. It asks, from a common man’s point of view, many a question that perturb us and provides answers to them from the scientific and spiritual perspectives in a captivating way. Some such questions include: • Do we see dreams in black and white or in colour? • What does a visually-challenged person see in his dreams? • Why are some of our dreams extraordinarily vivid with electric colours, the clarity and brilliance of which, we may never encounter in our ordinary waking lives? • Why are we non-reflective, irrational in our dreams? • Are the dream time and waking time equal? • How does our memory work in dream state? Why do we forget our dreams and is it possible to improve dream recall and cultivate awareness in dreams? • Why do we fail to distinguish a dream object from the physical world object while we are dreaming? • If the dream experience exactly feels like the real world and we fail to distinguish it from the waking world while we are dreaming, how can we be certain that we are not dreaming now? • How does a dream contain various persons exhibiting opposite emotions at the same time when all the dream characters including the witnessing dreamer are produced out of single mind of the dreaming person? • Can we intentionally transform the dream scenarios? If so, what would be the philosophical implications of it? • Can dreams and sleeps be utilized for spiritual elevation? ... and many more questions we always wondered about the daily eight hours of our bed time, but never got the right answers to! We find new meanings and ways in dealing with our dreams in this volume, therefore, it is a must read for every dream enthusiast as well as any serious spiritual seeker.

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780262294775

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Dream Life by J. Allan Hobson Pdf

A pioneer in sleep and dream science surveys his life and work through the lens of dreaming and consciousness. J. Allan Hobson's scientific experimentation began in childhood, with a soot-filled investigation into the capacity of a chimney to admit Santa Claus. (He discovered that even with the damper open the chimney was far too narrow.) Hobson's life as an experimentalist has continued through a pioneering career devoted to aligning psychology and biology and to investigating the relationship of dreaming and consciousness. In Dream Life, Hobson conducts an experimental investigation into his life and work. Hobson charts his developing consciousness through a vividly imagined conception (in October of 1932), birth, and babyhood, offering a theory about "protoconsciousness" in fetuses and infants. He recounts his youthful zeal for scientific discovery, his early sexual experimentation, and his education. He describes taking on the entrenched Freudians at Harvard Medical School in the 1950s, as a maverick psychiatrist who wanted to replace psychoanalysis with biological science. He describes his further studies, his marriages and love affairs, his travels, and what he learned about the brain from his whiplash-induced amnesia after a 1963 automobile accident and from his "brain death" after a stroke in 2001. Through it all, Hobson uses his life as the ultimate case study for his theory that REM sleep provides a test pattern that allows the brain to develop "offline." Dreams—most intense in REM sleep, when the brain is active—need no Freudian-style decoding, he says. Dreaming is a glorious mental state, to be enjoyed and studied for what it tells us about consciousness.

Author : María Zambrano,Roberta Johnson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791440192

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Delirium and Destiny by María Zambrano,Roberta Johnson Pdf

Maria Zambrano's Delirium and Destiny makes the work of this major Spanish philosopher available in English for the first time. An excellent introduction to Zambrano's life and thought, it traces the intellectual formation of a young woman who became one of Jose Ortega y Gasset's most distinguished pupils, and it chronicles Zambrano's redefinition of his philosophical positions. A truly interdisciplinary work, this translation is accompanied by an extensive critical essay, a translator's afterword, and a glossary of pertinent historical and philosophical terms.

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262582201

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The Dream Drugstore by J. Allan Hobson Pdf

An investigation into the brain's chemistry and the mechanisms of chemically altered states of consciousness. In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depression and schizophrenia. He also draws on work that expands our understanding of how certain drugs can correct imbalances and restore the brain's natural equilibrium. Hobson explains the chemical balance concept in terms of what we know about the regulation of normal states of consciousness over the course of the day by brain chemicals called neuromodulators. He presents striking confirmation of the principle that every drug that has transformative effects on consciousness interacts with the brain's own consciousness-altering chemicals. In the section called "The Medical Drugstore," Hobson describes drugs used to counteract anxiety and insomnia, to raise and lower mood, and to eliminate or diminish the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia. He discusses the risks involved in their administration, including the possibility of new disorders caused by indiscriminate long-term use. In "The Recreational Drugstore," Hobson discusses psychedelic drugs, narcotic analgesia, and natural drugs. He also considers the distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate drug use. In the concluding "Psychological Drugstore," he discusses the mind as an agent, not just the mediator, of change, and corrects many erroneous assumptions and practices that hinder the progress of psychoanalysis.

Author : Karl Peterman
Publisher : Karl Peterman
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lucid Dreaming: How to Take Control of Your Dreams (Lucid Dreaming Explores the Latest Scientific Research and Techniques) by Karl Peterman Pdf

A lucid dream is one in which you’re aware that you’re dreaming. To have a lucid dream means that you can dictate what happens in the dream. Think of a movie in which you’re the main hero, a drama which you and only you dictate. It takes role-playing out of your computer or television screen and into your head where you can experience it full-on in 3-D surround sound complete with full-body sensations. Need inspiration for a book, project, or business? Want to know how it feels like to actually fly? Want to explore a scenario that you cannot do in real life? Want to have sex with someone (or a whole group of them) but know that your chances of actually doing so in the real world are virtually nil? Lucid dreaming makes all of the above and more possible. Inside you will learn: · What lucid dreams are · Why lucid dreaming is beneficial · Ways to manage REM sleep · How to encourage lucid dreaming · How to tell if you are in a dream · Ways to maintain a lucid dream Discover proven lucid dreaming techniques, including how to lucid dream and control your dreams, and explore the fascinating science behind dreaming and consciousness. Learn how to interpret your dreams and use them to enhance your creativity and improve your memory. Explore the neurobiology of dreaming and discover how mindfulness can help you achieve lucidity.

Author : Nicholas Tranquillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780192802156

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Dreaming by J. Allan Hobson Pdf

In this fascinating book, Harvard researcher Hobson offers an intriguing look at the nightly odyssey through the illusory world of dreams. Hobson describes how the theory of dreaming has advanced dramatically over the past 50 years, sparked by the use of EEGs in the 1950s and by recent innovations in brain imaging. 20 illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : OCLC:660180612

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Delusion and Dream by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0192803042

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Dreaming by J. Allan Hobson Pdf

The Harvard professor and world-renowned expert on sleep shares the extent of what is known about dreaming, dream disorders, sleep deprivation, and much more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UCAL:B4327252

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Glasgow Medical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : V. Kasatkin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781312221321

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A Theory of Dreams by V. Kasatkin Pdf

Russian psychiatrist Vasily Kasatkin devoted more than half a century to collecting and studying dreams and is the author of the book ""Theory of Dreams" (Medical 1967). The theory Kasatkin proposes is not filled with mystical symbols, but numerous scientifically-based facts and interesting observations. His work is based on an extensive 30-year collection of dreams, which allowed Kasatkin to make significant conclusions. He demonstrates that the sleeping brain warns us of impending disease, of which the first symptoms may occur weeks, months or even years before the overt physical symptoms.