Dream Science : Exploring the Forms of Consciousness
J. F. Pagel
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Burlington : : Elsevier Science, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (244 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Dream Science: Exploring the Forms of Consciousness; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Preface: The REMS Equals Dreaming Debacle; Urban Myths; Spontaneous Electrical Activity; Clear and Irrefutable Evidence; Neuroconsciousness; The Special Relationship; Melancholic Simpletons; A Slice of the Brain; An All-Time Low; Almost Unstudied; Paradigm Shift; 1 Archaeology, Anthropology, and Dreaming; Moving Images - Cave Art; Mimeographs on Fresh Clay; Night Terrors; The Mechanical "Creativeness" of a Lightning Storm; Illumination. - 9 Visual Dream ConsciousnessArchetypical Visual Processing; Fooling and Binding Visual Systems; The Sprocket in the Projector; The Visual Dream Stage; Notes; 10 Creating Artificial Dreams; Film-Making: The Mental Apparatus; Artificial Consciousness; The Interface that Abrogates Consciousness; Dreamtime Elmo; Notes; 11 Crossing the Line: Dreaming and Ecstasy; The Standard Approach to the Illogic of Dream Science; Dream Illogic in Religion and Philosophy; Crossing the Line; The Ecstasy of Cave Painters; Dream Science; Notes; Index. - Anxiety (STAGE 2) DreamingThe Dreams of Dreamless Sleep; Notes; 7 The Nightmare: Integrating Emotions into Consciousness; Fear and Emotional Competence; Imagining Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Creative Nightmares: Honor, Power, and the Love of Women; The Creative Nightmare Project; Emotional Consciousness; Notes; 8 Organizing Consciousness into Stories; Signs and Absolute Symbols; Signing "Dream"; Dream Language; Soap Operas and Other Parables; Pretty Horses and the Structure of Story; Dreaming and Three-Act Stories; Dreaming as a Structuring Principle For Life; Notes. - Neurochemical Frog Prophecies and the Control of Rapid Eye Movement SleepThe Electrophysiology of a Storm-Wracked Ocean; Approaching Dream Toads; Notes; 5 The Forms of Waking Consciousness; Attention-Focused Waking; Default Non-Attentive Waking; The Rhythms of Creativity; The Cognitive Curiosity of Hypnosis; Meditative States; The Altered State of Drowsy Waking; Forming Waking Consciousness; Notes; 6 The Conscious Forms of Sleep; Controlling Dreaming: Lucidity and Sleep Meditation; Sleep-Onset Dreams And Hallucinations; The "Special" Relationship of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep with Dreaming. - Non-Dreaming NeanderthalsThe Shadow Play of Consciousness; Notes; 2 Shamans, Dreams, and Religion; Very Disturbing Dreams; Dreams as Divine Epiphany; The Purkinje Tree: Shamanism and Trance States; Dirty Needles and Dream Ecstasy; Notes; 3 Dream Philosophy; Unconcealing Dreams; The Dream as a Window into Body and Mind; Memory, Dreaming, and Frontal Lobotomies; The Same Memory Systems Are Used in Dreaming and Waking; Descartes' Many Errors?; Notes; 4 Studying Dreaming and Consciousness; Beyond the Chinese Room; Pathophysiology. - Dreaming is the cognitive state uniquely experienced by humans and integral to our creativity, the survival characteristic that allows for the rapid change and innovation that defines our species and provides the basis for our art, philosophy, science, and humanity. Yet there is little empiric or scientific evidence supporting the generally accepted dream-based theories of neuroconsciousness. Dream Science examines the cognitive science of dreaming and offers an evidence-based view of the phenomenon. Today, such evidence-based breakthroughs in the field of dream science are a
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