Dream experience (DE) represents a fascinating condition linked to emotional processes
and the human inner world. Although the overlap between REM sleep and dreaming has …

Whether we are awake or asleep is believed to mark a sharp divide between the types of
conscious states we undergo in either behavioural state. Consciousness in sleep is often …

Disorders of consciousness (DoCs) pose a significant clinical and ethical challenge
because they allow for complex forms of conscious experience in patients where intentional …

Previous experiments combining cognitive techniques and sleep disruption have been
relatively successful in inducing at-home lucid dreams (LD) over training periods of 1 week …

Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are characterized by the subjective experience of being
located outside the physical body. Little is known about the neurophysiology of spontaneous …

According to virtual reality dream theory (Hobson & Friston, 2014), while dreaming, brains
generate a dream world similar to a virtual reality environment, and this world uses the same …

Although emotions are reported in a large majority of dreams, little is known about the
factors that account for night-to-night and person-to-person variations in people's experience …

Empirical investigations that search for a link between dreaming and sleep-dependent
memory consolidation have focused on testing for an association between dreaming of what …

The Society for Psychological Anthropology—a section of the American Anthropology
Association—and Palgrave Macmillan are dedicated to publishing innovative research that …

Hypnagogia—the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep—is marked by
“hypnagogic dreams,” during which our brains tend to forge connections among concepts …