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Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... channeling, shape shifting, astral travel, remote viewing, curses, dream projection, magical darts, telepathy, mind control, necromancy, and so on. The shamanic ontology, or psychedelic spirit space, can be cynically viewed as a shared non-phy...
Vivid dreams, hallucinations, psychosis and REM sleep in Guillain-Barré syndrome
... their association with rapid eye movement sleep (rem sleep) using continuous sleep monitoring in 13 GBS patients with (n = 7) and without (n = 6) hallucinations and 6 tetraplegic ICU controls without hallucinations. Although sleep was short and frag...
Sleep, learning, and dreams: off-line memory reprocessing
Converging evidence and new research methodologies from across the neurosciences permit the neuroscientific study of the role of sleep in off-line memory reprocessing, as well as the nature and function of dreaming. Evidence supports a role for sleep...
Early scientists and philosophers saw sleep as a passive condition where the brain is isolated from the other parts of the body. Alcmaeon claimed that sleep was caused by the blood receding from the blood vessels in the skin to the interior parts of ...
Sleep and General Anesthesia as Altered States of Consciousness
... this stage we go back to stage 2 and then enter rem sleep or rapid eye movement sleep. Here EEG tracings look exactly like the beta waves that are observed when we are completely awake. In fact, brain-imaging studies show that the neurons in the ce...
... [mostly occurring during rapid eye movement (rem) sleep] can be considered as the main physiologically altered conscious states. Pharmacologically induced unconscious states are commonly named deep sedation or general anesthesia. Sedative ane...
The stuff dreams are made of: anatomical substrates of REM sleep
... although the answer to the second question remains elusive. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep was discovered in 1953. Its hallmarks are periods of rapid eye movements, low-voltage electroencephalogram (EEG) and muscle tone suppression that r...
The neuropsychology of REM sleep dreaming
... PET data indicate a preferential activation in rem of the pontine brain stem and of limbic and paralimbic cortical structures involved in mediating emotion and a corresponding deactivation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortical structures involved in...
... visual memory buffer and cause eidetic images to rematerialize from scratch.4 The Hippocampus, ACh, Memory, and Dreaming [fig]3;1[/fig]The processes of dreaming, memory storage, and memory recall are managed by the hippocampus (Fig. 3).5 The hipp...
On February 21, 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that members of the ayahuasca-using União do Vegetal (UDV) church must be allowed to continue using their DMT-containing brew until a final decision is reached in their case against the government....
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