Understanding of the evolved biological function of sleep has advanced considerably in the
past decade. However, no equivalent understanding of dreams has emerged. Contemporary …

The active inference framework, and in particular its recent formulation as a partially
observable Markov decision process (POMDP), has gained increasing popularity in recent …

The recognition and incorporation of evidence-based neuroscientific concepts into creative
arts therapeutic knowledge and practice seem valuable and advantageous for the purpose …

Lucid dreaming (LD) is a mental state in which we realize not being awake but are dreaming
while asleep. It often involves vivid, perceptually intense dream images as well as peculiar …

Abstract Social Simulation Theory (SST) considers the function of dreaming to be the
simulation of social events. The Sociality Bias and the Strengthening hypotheses of SST …

In this paper, I discuss the relationship between bodily experiences in dreams and the
sleeping, physical body. I question the popular view that dreaming is a naturally and …

In Experienced Wholeness, Wanja Wiese tackles philosophical and empirical issues
surrounding the “unified” nature of consciousness. He first provides an exhaustive summary …

Predictive Processing theory, hotly debated in neuroscience, psychology and philosophy,
promises to explain a number of perceptual and cognitive phenomena in a simple and …

Dreams and dreaming have been topics of philosophical inquiry since antiquity. Historically,
the topic of dreaming has mostly been discussed in the context of external world skepticism …

The occurrence of sleep passed through the evolutionary sieve and is widespread in animal
species. Sleep is known to be beneficial to cognitive and mnemonic tasks, while chronic …