Sep 4 2017

Sleep Paralysis Found to be Linked to Traumatic Experiences and Stress

Eternal Nightmare: Sleep Paralysis Found to be Linked to Traumatic Experiences and Stress

via The Daily Grail

Greg @DailyGrail writes:

Researchers involved in a new study have attempted to shed a bit more light on the subject, by conducting a systematic review of 42 previous published studies that have investigated variables “associated with both the frequency and intensity of sleep paralysis episodes”. They found that, although many of the most obvious categories – such as age, gender, and ethnicity – showed little evidence of difference in frequency and intensity of sleep paralysis experiences, there were a few areas that seemed to be related. One of those areas was a history of trauma or stress:

“A confirmed or unconfirmed history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) was found to be significantly related to frequency of sleep paralysis episodes… The frequency and intensity of intruder and incubus hallucinations were significantly greater in both CSA groups as compared to those who did not report sexual abuse… Sleep paralysis prevalence was significantly higher in both CSA groups compared to a control group who reported not having experienced CSA.”

Link: “A systematic review of variables associated with sleep paralysis (full-text)

Source: Eternal Nightmare: Sleep Paralysis Found to be Linked to Traumatic Experiences and Stress | The Daily Grail

Feb 23 2014

New Study on Why some people remember dreams and others don’t

New Study on Why some people remember dreams and others don’t

By Jasmine Bailey

Video transcript provided by Newsy.com

Do you often remember your dreams? Or maybe when you’re awake, what went on during sleep remains a mystery. A group of researchers in France conducted a study to find out why some people remember dreams while others don’t.

They studied brain scans of 41 people while they were awake and asleep. They found that high dream recallers, people who remember dreams about five times a week, have a higher level of activity in certain parts of the brain.

​Whether awake or asleep, those participants showed higher activity levels in the medial prefrontal cortex and the temporoparietal junction — areas involved in processing information, including external stimuli. (ViaWikimedia Commons / Ranveig)

The results also showed people who often remember their dreams are more prone to waking up during the night.

“Sleepers who can recall their dreams vividly have twice as much wakefulness during sleep as people who forget them almost immediately, meaning they probably wake up briefly during the night, cementing their dreams into memory.” (Via KMAX)

As the lead researcher explains, the “​sleeping brain is not capable of memorizing new information; it needs to awaken to be able to do that.” (Via HealthDay News)

According to the study, high dream recallers also have more dreams compared to low recallers — giving them more dreams to remember.

Why some people remember dreams and others don’t | www.ktvu.com.

Oct 15 2008

Thomas Campbell Consciousness Event in Austin, Texas – November 6th through 8th

Download the PDF Flyer: Lo Res / Hi Res

November 6th, 7th & 8th

In this workshop: Discover the unification of physics and metaphysics. Find the origins and inner workings of consciousness and reality,mind and matter. Understand who, what and why you are. Integrate your personal experience and present understanding within a larger scientific context. See how love, spirituality and quantum mechanics are derived as fundamental aspects of reality. Nuclear physicist Thomas Campbell helped get Bob Monroe’s laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running in the ’70s. Tom, the “TC (physicist) ”in Monroe’s book Far Journeys, has been a serious explorer of the frontier of reality, mind, consciousness, altered states and psychic phenomena for 35 years. He has steered his research toward discovering the outer boundaries, inner workings and causal dynamics of the larger reality system. He published his My Big TOE trilogy (my-big-toe.com) in 2003. It is a logic-based work of science representing the results and conclusions of his scientific exploration of the nature of existence.

 

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Thomas Campbell Workshop, Advance Tickets (non-INACS members) 11/08/08, Austin, Texas ($85)

 

Thomas Campbell Workshop, Advance Tickets (INACS members) 11/08/08, Austin, Texas ($60)

 


Thomas Campbell at I N A C S

Jun 28 2007

Dream 070611

Last night / this morning I dreamed of a nuclear apocalypse. Not a global nuclear exchange but rather, an accident with a single nuclear missile whose warhead is eroded by acid until it explodes. In this dream I see the tip of a nuclear bomb submerged in a vat of acid and it’s nose cone is slowly eaten away by the acid. I don’t think this could actually cause a nuclear missile to explode but that’s how it works in the dream. And somehow it’s “my” / “our” fault in the dream. And we are trying to gather a few friends to escape the city before all hell breaks loose!

There was much more to the dream but that was the basic theme. There was also a scene where I and a friend became trapped in an incredibly small elevator – like the size of a highschool locker. The elevator malfunctioned and seemed to plummet to a sub-basement. We had to pry the doors open and I recall the person / child I was with reading the tiny serial numbers on the inside of the door, stating that she could recite these numbers to the automated system and get us out. It worked – sortof. 

 – sMiles