Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States
... state. This range is also associated with day-dreaming, memory recall, and guided visualization. The high end of the theta band is associated with internal focus, visualization, and sustained concentration; the lower end is associated with more t...
Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... creation and memory compression, just as dreaming is a form of associative information creation and compression.2 Even a single low-dose psychedelic session can produce changes in identity and transpersonal awareness that last a lifetime.3,4...
What is Nonlinear Hallucination?
... nonlinear perspectives of consciousness. dreaming can be associatively nonlinear, which means narrative content moves unpredictably from state to state while retaining some tangential linearity. Psychedelics are famous for being recursively ...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... creates artificial realities naturally while dreaming. There is no need to invoke alternate dimensions or invisible energy to explain these phenomena. The Psychosis Argument While there has been no satisfactory objective proof demonstrating th...
... be easily fooled by hallucination and illusion. dreaming, Imagination, Psychosis, Hallucination While the information resolution of imagination and dreams is difficult to measure, it is widely agreed that dream perception is somewhat less resolve...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
... entities is a mix of aboriginal archetypes of dreaming and spirit walking, Western archetypes of visiting afterlives of heaven and hell, and Tibetan archetypes of traveling through bardos of the afterlife. The ontological split between the land o...
Substances that Enhance Recall and Lucidity During Dreaming
A method of enhancing lucid dreaming comprising administration to individuals the Acetylcholine Esterase inhibitor class of drugs. Use of therapeutic agents recently developed for Alzheimer"s Disease such as Donepizil (Aricept), Rivastigmin (Exelon),...
Sleep, dreams, and memory consolidation: the role of the stress hormone cortisol
We discuss the relationship between sleep, dreams, and memory, proposing that the content of dreams reflects aspects of memory consolidation taking place during the different stages of sleep. Although we acknowledge the likely involvement of various ...
Sleep, learning, and dreams: off-line memory reprocessing
... as well as the nature and function of dreaming. Evidence supports a role for sleep in the consolidation of an array of learning and memory tasks. In addition, new methodologies allow the experimental manipulation of dream content at 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
Stages of Sleep EEG recordings show that we go through five stages of sleep each with its characteristic brain-wave activity. Stage 1 is the transition stage from wakefulness to sleep and is identified with theta waves and last between 1 to 7 minu...
... (stage III and IV) slow wave sleep stages, and dreaming [mostly occurring during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep] can be considered as the main physiologically altered conscious states. Pharmacologically induced unconscious states are commonly n...
The stuff dreams are made of: anatomical substrates of REM sleep
Where do dreams come from? Why do we dream? A recent paper1 brings us closer to answering the first question, although the answer to the second question remains elusive. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep was discovered in 1953. Its hallmarks are pe...
The neuropsychology of REM sleep dreaming
... to explain how the formal cognitive features of dreaming may be the combined product of a shift in neuromodulatory balance of the brain and a related redistribution of regional blood flow. The human PET data indicate a preferential activation in RE...
... and share many of the qualities of lucid dreaming, sleepwalking, and dementia. [fig]1;1[/fig]The most commonly reported eidetic hallucinations seen on psychedelics are of people, faces, animals, plants, flowers, spirits, aliens, insects, a...
... shamanism and psychedelic therapy viable. In dreaming neuroplasticity is stimulated in response to daily routine and anxiety; in hypnosis neuroplasticity is stimulated in response to suggestion and reinforcement. In shamanism neuroplasticity is ...
An Overview of Physical Shamanism
... is too ineffable; and the processes of dreaming and eidetic visual hallucination blocks the formation of new semantic memories. In order to remember a dream a subject must wake up and make some mental notes, then go back to sleep to finish...
... cholinergic modulation of memory, recall, and dreaming; these pathways mediate the smooth input and output of memory from the hippocampus. Salvia divinorum interrupts Kappa-opioid tactile sensory pathways; these pathways mediate pain, gravity awa...
... turns itself back on. Sleeping and dreaming demonstrate that the basic functions of consciousness are modular and interdependent; they can operate individually as well as in specialized groupings. The modular functions of consciousness...
The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
... modulatory gate that switches between waking and dreaming. This model is presented in the AIM state description of consciousness. Chapter 4: In order for information to be stored in memory the serotonergically modulated forebrain must be online a...
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