Consciousness and Dreaming Mind: Mapping the Uncharted Territory of Thinking in Dreams

By Miloslava Kozmová The dream world represents an alternate state of consciousness occurring during sleeping. Investigations of features existing in the dreaming state of consciousness can offer fascinating insights into individuals’ nocturnal mental lives along with the scientific contradictions. In this book, the author traces research into one of the most scientifically denied features of dreaming consciousness – the thinking abilities of non-lucid dreamers. Contrary to explanations provided by cognitive neuroscientists, notably that deactivation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex indicates that non-lucid dreamers are incapable of self-generated thought (including executive skills and metacognitive monitoring), the phenomenological findings presented here reveal the wide range of dreamers’ sophisticated thought processes. Despite attempts to integrate phenomenological and neuroimaging findings focused on non-lucid dreamers’ dreaming state of consciousness, these efforts will remain incomplete if researchers do not recognize the existence of dreamers’ self-generated thought processes. In the absence of this recognition, prospects for new discoveries will have only limited potential because the predominant deficiency viewpoint clearly guides many current research efforts. Yet, the non-lucid dreamers can become engaged in their dreams as active agents and, in a developmental manner, might continue to use their executive skills Product Details ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D2PCF4QS Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (May 17, 2024) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 341 pages ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8891136038