Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... throughout all daily activities: waking, sleeping, eating, working, relaxing. Sharing the schedules and routines of daily life is essential to synching the circadian rhythms and cross-expectations of each subject. Psychic Bonding and Circad...
Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States
... up the transitional states between waking and sleeping, including meditative and lucid dream states. The waking mind finally shuts down at the delta range of 0.5 to 4 Hz, where the brain slows into the deep rhythms of regenerative sleep. This bra...
Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... similar to states of fever or deep restorative sleep. The cellular regenerative power of psychedelics have only recently been demonstrated in scientific terms, but in shamanic models this restorative function is taken for granted. Physical Shaman...
... It is seen normally in adults in slow wave sleep. It is also seen normally in babies. It may occur focally with subcortical lesions and in general distribution with diffuse lesions, metabolic encephalopathy hydrocephalus or deep midline lesion...
... or unconscious state, as in going to sleep. Psychedelics are unique in that they can both enhance and degrade perceptual limitations by orders of degrees; psychedelics can obscure and distort perceptual data or they can enhance resolut...
Anticholinergic drug-induced sleep-like EEG pattern in man
... exhibited marked impairment of consciousness, sleep-like behavior, and sometimes coma-like states. The anticholinergic-induced sleep-like state differed significantly both clinically and electroencephalographically from chlorpromazine-induced sle...
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 a...
Jimson Weed (Datura stramonium) Poisoning
... antispasmodic GI preparations, over-the-counter sleep aids, cold preparations, muscle relaxants, antipsychotics, other plants, mushrooms, scopolamine, or cyclic antidepressants.(7) ...
Substances that Enhance Recall and Lucidity During Dreaming
... any of a class of substances that intensify REM sleep via the Acetylcholine esterase inhibitor class of drugs. 2. A method according to claim 1 wherein said inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of physostigmine, tetrahydroaminoacridin...
Sleep Deprivation, Psychosis and Mental Efficiency
When sleep deprivation becomes great enough, the effects mimic those of psychosis. The failure of the scientific world to recognize this is due to some extent to the folklore that has grown up around the sleepless marathon of high school student Rand...
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
... 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 in the consolidation of an array of learning and memory tasks. In addition, ne...
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...
... pathologically altered conscious states. Normal sleep, encompassing light (stage II) and deep (stage III and IV) slow wave sleep stages, and dreaming [mostly occurring during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep] can be considered as the main physiolo...
The stuff dreams are made of: anatomical substrates of REM sleep
... 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 recur throughout the night in a 90-minute r...
The neuropsychology of REM sleep dreaming
... mechanisms which are essential to REM sleep and only come into full play when the serotonergic and noradrenergic systems are inhibited. In REM, the brain thus becomes activated but processes its internally generated data in a manner quite...
... 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, and other s...
An Overview of Physical Shamanism
... up and make some mental notes, then go back to sleep to finish the dream; but if the subject does not rouse to some level of lucidity the dream is almost always forgotten. The same can be said for psychedelic hallucination; if the subject is too o...
Autohypnotic Induction of Sleep Rhythms Generates Visions of Light with Form-constant Patterns
Autohypnotic Induction of sleep Rhythms Generates Visions of Light with Form-constant Patterns. [fig]1;0[/fig] [fig]2;0[/fig]...
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