Dreams - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness.

29 Sep 2009 Dreaming has fascinated and mystified humankind for ages: the bizarre and evanescent qualities of dreams have invited boundless speculation about their origin, meaning and purpose. For most of the twentieth century, scientific dream theories were ... Read more...

Does the circadian modulation of dream recall modify with age?

30 Aug 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVES: The ultradian NREM-REM sleep cycle and the circadian modulation of REM sleep sum to generate dreaming. Here we investigated age-related changes in dream recall, number of dreams, and emotional domain characteristics of dreaming ... Read more...

Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming.

30 Aug 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVES: The goal of the study was to seek physiological correlates of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a dissociated state with aspects of waking and dreaming combined in a way so as to suggest a specific alteration in brain physiology ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dreams - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness. 29 Sep 2009
• Does the circadian modulation of dream recall modify with age? 30 Aug 2009
• Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming. 30 Aug 2009
• Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• Revisiting Searles's paper "The Patient as a Therapist to the Therapist": the analyst's personal in the interpersonal. 30 Jul 2009
• Freud's Botanical Monograph screen memory revisited. 30 Jul 2009
• The relationship between disturbed dreaming and somatic distress: a prospective investigation. 30 Jul 2009
• Unusual sleep experiences, dissociation, and schizotypy: Evidence for a common domain. 19 Jun 2009
• Imagery rehearsal therapy for posttraumatic nightmares in U.S. veterans. 30 May 2009
• Recall frequency of positive and negative dreams in a representative German sample. 30 May 2009
• Pathogenesis and symptomatology of hallucinations (delusions) of organic brain disorder and schizophrenia. 30 May 2009
• The influence of culture on the experience and interpretation of disturbing dreams. 30 May 2009
• Kaethe Kollwitz (1867-1945): the artist who may have suffered from Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. 29 Apr 2009
• The effect of trimipramine on dream recall and dream emotions in depressive outpatients. 26 Apr 2009
• Imaginative literature and Bion's intersubjective theory of thinking. 30 Mar 2009
• On: unraveling the riddle of exhibitionism. 30 Mar 2009
• Transformations in dreaming and characters in the psychoanalytic field. 30 Mar 2009
• Some key features in the evolution of self psychology and psychoanalysis. 30 Mar 2009
• How self psychology found me. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Dreams'

Definition: A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep which are dissociated from the usual stream of consciousness of the waking state.

Descriptor UI: D004325

Alternative terms: Dreams; Dream; Nightmares; Nightmare;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: F02.463.188.634.309; F02.830.855.268;

Technical Notes: consider also NIGHT TERRORS & PAVOR NOCTURNUS (both see SLEEP DISORDERS)