: Dreams, Images, and Fantasy: A Semantic Differential Casebook . C. Scott Moss.

When dreams become a royal road to confusion: realistic dreams, dissociation, and fantasy proneness.

Scientific discussions about false memories have, so far, mainly focused on external determinants (e.g., therapeutic interventions). However, in some cases, false memories might develop more spontaneously. For example, difficulties in distinguishing between dreams and reality may lead to false memories. The present article discusses two studies (N = 85 and 255, respectively) that examined to wh...

Bread of dreams: food and fantasy in early modern Europe

Bread, deliberately flavoured or adulterated by herbs and seeds of cannabis and poppy, mouldy or accidentally made from grain contaminated by a fungus from which LSD can be derived, consumed in conditions of chronic malnutrition and hunger, was responsible for individual mental aberration and collective delirium. This is one of the themes of Piero Camporesi's Bread of dreams. In this very start...

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Nightmares and bad dreams in patients with borderline personality disorder: Fantasy as a coping skill?

Background and Objectives: Previous studies reported a high prevalence of nightmares and dream anxiety in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the severity of dream disturbances correlated with daytime symptoms of psychopathology. However, the majority of these results are based on retrospective questionnaire-based study designs, and hence the effect of recall biases (characteristic for BP...

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