Dream Science Exploring the Forms of Consciousness 1st Edition by JF Pagel ISBN 0124046487 9780124046481

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ISBN 10: 0124046487 
ISBN 13: 9780124046481
Author: JF Pagel

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 altering our understanding of consciousness. Different forms of dreaming consciousness occur throughout sleep, and dreamlike states extend into wake. Each dream state is developed on a framework of memories, emotions, representational images, and electrophysiology, amenable to studies utilizing emerging and evolving technology. Dream Science discusses basic insights into the scientific study of dreaming, including the limits to traditional Freudian-based dream theory and the more modern evidence-based science. It also includes coverage of the processes of memory and parasomnias, the sleep-disturbance diagnoses related to dreaming. This comprehensive book is a scientific exploration of the mind-brain interface and a look into the future of dream science.

Dream Science Exploring the Forms of Consciousness 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Archaeology, Anthropology, and Dreaming

• Moving Images – Cave Art

• Mimeographs on Fresh Clay

• Night Terrors

• The Mechanical “Creativeness” of a Lightning Storm

• Illumination

• Non-Dreaming Neanderthals

• The Shadow Play of Consciousness

• Notes

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 4. Studying Dreaming and Consciousness

• Beyond the Chinese Room

• Pathophysiology

• Neurochemical Frog Prophecies and the Control of REM Sleep

• The Electrophysiology of a Storm-Wracked Ocean

• Approaching Dream Toads

• Notes

Chapter 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

Chapter 6. The Conscious Forms of Sleep

• Controlling Dreaming: Lucidity and Sleep Meditation

• Sleep-Onset Dreams and Hallucinations

• The “Special” Relationship of REM Sleep with Dreaming

• Anxiety (Stage 2) Dreaming

• The Dreams of Dreamless Sleep

• Notes

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 9. Visual Dream Consciousness

• Archetypical Visual Processing

• Fooling and Binding Visual Systems

• The Sprocket in the Projector

• The Visual Dream Stage

• Notes

Chapter 10. Creating Artificial Dreams

• Film-Making: The Mental Apparatus

• Artificial Consciousness

• The Interface that Abrogates Consciousness

• Dreamtime Elmo

• Notes

Chapter 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

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