Dreams and Visions
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4408-4716-5 (ISBN)
Across time and around the world, billions of people with highly dissimilar backgrounds and cultures have felt spiritual or religious inspiration that shaped their lives and supplemented their mental strength—and in many cases, this inspiration came via a dream. The "how" and "why" of this common phenomenon is one that science has largely failed to explain. In this book, nationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist Patrick McNamara taps the latest science in sleep and dreams as well as neuropsychology to investigate one facet of the answer from the "inside out"—the human brain's role.
The first study of its kind in an emerging field, Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams provides a comprehensive summary of past theory and examines the latest science on dreams, REM sleep, cognitive approaches to religion, and neuroscience approaches to religion. Readers will come away with an in-depth understanding of how and why god beliefs and spiritual convictions so often emerge in our dreams. Dedicated sections address special dream types like visitation dreams, nightmares, precognitive dreams, "big" dreams, lucid dreams, paralysis dreams, twin dreams, and more.
Patrick McNamara, PhD, is associate professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and professor at Northcentral University.
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Caveats
History of the Religion–Dreams Link
Chapter 1. Dreams That Appear to Yield Direct Perceptual Evidence of a Spirit Realm
Nightmares
Meeting One's Double in a Dream/Nightmare
Visitation Dreams and Spirits
Lucid Dreaming and Religious Consciousness
Precognitive Dreams
False Awakenings and Sleep Paralysis Dreams
REM Parasomnias
Chapter 2. The Anthropology of Dreams and Religion
Chapter 3. Cognitive Processes in Dreams That Produce Religious Ideas
Cognitive Processes in Dreams That Give Rise to Religious Ideas: Supernatural Agents (SAs)
Cognitive Models of Agency
REM Sleep, Emotional Regulation, and Personality Traits
Theory-of-Mind Attributions
REM, Theory of Mind, and the Default Network
Chapter 4. The Neurobiology of REM Is the Core Neurobiology of Religious Experiences
PGO Waves and the Orienting Reaction (OR)
Psychopharmacology of REM Sleep and the Chemistry of Altered States of Consciousness
Overlap with Neurobiology of Religiousness
REM intrusion and Daydreams
REM and the Dopamine Systems
REM-Related Computations of Value and Salience
Chapter 5. Why REM Sleep May Be a Highly Sensitive Perceptual System
A Brief Detour into the Senses
Weak Signals in Dreams
Precognitive Dreams Redux
Twin Dreams and Weak Signals
Is the Information We Get in Dreams Reliable?
Dreamwork, Creativity, and Religious Ideas
Chapter 6. Religiosity and Dream Recall
Non-Dreamers and Religiosity
Sleep Disorders and Religiosity
Dreams in Schizophrenia
Autism
Dreams in the Subgroup of Patients with Parkinson's Disease Who Report Lower Levels of Religiosity
Chapter 7. Implications and Conclusions
Religion, Dreams, and Morality
Is Religion an Adaptation?
Creating Individuals Who Can Cooperate Over the Long Term
Enter Religion
Universality
Effortless Acquisition of Religiousness
Specific Biology
Appendices
Appendix A: A Quick Tour of the Brain Science Relevant for Religion and REM Sleep
Appendix B: How Scientists Study REM and NREM Dreams
Appendix C: Dream Transcripts across a Single Night of Sleep
Appendix D: Dream Transcripts Scored for Agency Changes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.10.2016 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Brain, Behavior, and Evolution |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4408-4716-9 / 1440847169 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4408-4716-5 / 9781440847165 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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