In a lucid dream, a dreamer becomes conscious that she can interact with and control events in the dream environment. Using gestural control devices and responsive video visualization of vocal interaction, our interactive performance, dream.Medusa, invites four participants selected from the observing audience to experience a simulated lucid dream. The participatory nature of the dream.Medusa p...

Chinese college students are the future of vigorous development motherland, expectation nation, successors and builders domestic socialist modernization cause, main bearers practitioners dream. The cultivation students’ own national cultural spirit is not only related to overall individuals, but also closely prospects our country survival entire ethnic minority. Therefore, in perspective Dream ...

The study of the Shamanistic State of Consciousness (SSC) is the focus of much current psychological interest. Harner (1980, 1988a)defines the SSC as a mental condition distinct from the Ordinary State of Consciousness (OSC) which is exclusively focused on external events and experiences. The SSC is synonymous with visualizing or imaging; it is akin to the "lucid" or "waking-dream," a dream in ...

Ageing is associated with marked changes in sleep timing, structure and electroencephalographic (EEG) activity. Older people exhibit less slow-wave and spindle activity during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, together with attenuated levels of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep as compared to young individuals. However, the extent to which these age-related changes in sleep impact on dream proc...

In 1953, Aserinsky and Kleitman published their paper on the so-called REM sleep which accounts for about 20 % of the total sleep time in adults. REM sleep is characterized by rapid eye movements, activated EEG and muscle atonia. Awakenings from REM sleep are very often accompanied by reports of intense dreaming (1). Since REM sleep occurs regularly every night in every human being, it can be a...

We investigated the role of the dopamine system [i.e., subcortical-medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) network] in dreaming, by studying patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) as a model of altered dopaminergic transmission. Subcortical volumes and cortical thickness were extracted by 3T-MR images of 27 PD patients and 27 age-matched controls, who were asked to fill out a dream diary upon morning a...