Utilizing the Global Workspace System of Baars (1988), this paper compares conscious and unconscious processes across waking, nonlucid, and lucid dreams. Sleep psychology can display gross functional dissociation between perceptual and cognitive consciousness. We utilize this observation to develop models of sleep experience and dream generation. These models accommodate Hunt’s (1989) “multipli...

The popularity of this text is attested by the fact that this, the 5th edition, was necessitated after a lapse of but 3 years. Certain, but by no means major, revisions have been made in this edition. The style is concise and lucid. A number of the illustrations are excellent and most of the others are good. One of its most attractive features is the inclusion of an adequate bibliography after ...

Abstract. Some new results on magnetic dipole (M1) transitions in heavy quarkonium from nonrelativistic effective field theories of QCD are briefly reported. This model-independent approach not only facilitates a systematic and lucid way to investigate the relativistic corrections, it also clarifies some inconsistent treatment in previous potential model approach. The impact of our formalism on...

Several lines of evidence converge to the idea that rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) is a good model to foster our understanding of psychosis. Both REMS and psychosis course with internally generated perceptions and lack of rational judgment, which is attributed to a hyperlimbic activity along with hypofrontality. Interestingly, some individuals can become aware of dreaming during REMS, a partic...

The contrast between self- and other-produced tickles, as a special case of sensory attenuation for self-produced actions, has long been a target of empirical research. While in standard wake states it is nearly impossible to tickle oneself, there are interesting exceptions. Notably, participants awakened from REM (rapid eye movement-) sleep dreams are able to tickle themselves. So far, however...

BACKGROUND Lucid Dreams are a form of dream life, during which the dreamer may be aware that he/she is dreaming, can stop/re-start the dreams, depending on the pleasantness or unpleasant nature of the dream, and experiences the dream as if he/she were fully awake. Depending on their content, they may be pleasant, un-pleasant or terrifying, at least in the context of patients, who also exhibit c...

Intensional Programming (IP) was born in 1986 at Arizona State—or at least that is when we came up with the name. We had actually been doing it for some time already. Tony Faustini and I had been discussing whether or not Lucid is really a “functional” programming language. This is quite an interesting topic, and I will have something to say about it a bit later. Suddenly, we asked ourselves wh...

Although the language Lucid was not originally intended to support computing with infinite data structures, the notion of (infinite) sequence quickly came to the fore, together with a demanddriven computation model in which demands are propagated for the values of particular values at particular index points. This naturally generalized to sequences of multiple dimensions so that a programmer co...

Towards Hybrid Intensional Programming with JLucid, Objective Lucid, and General Imperative Compiler Framework in the GIPSY

Lucid, a popular source of online convenience survey samples, has seen significant increase in inattentive respondents since 2020. Inattentive participants – who incorrectly answer directed query attention check questions may be introducing substantial measurement error and attenuation bias. Using data from 152,967 across multiple studies conducted between January 2020 June 2021, we find that r...