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SUMMARY: Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life expe
 riences? - Dr. ValdasNoreika\, Lecturer in Psychology Queen Mary Universit
 y of London
DTSTART:20210219T163000Z
DTEND:20210219T180000Z
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CONTACT:Tristan Bekinschtein
DESCRIPTION:Many psychological studies of dreaming have revealed a continu
 ity between waking and sleep consciousness\, with evidence ranging from th
 e dominance of visual modality to the rumination over personal concerns in
  dreams. Such continuity led to the proposal that dreaming can be used as 
 a research model of waking consciousness (Antti Revonsuo). On the other ha
 nd\, many discrepancies have been observed between waking and dreaming act
 ivities\, e.g. we read or browse a lot during the daytime but seldom in dr
 eams. Moreover\, dreams are often made of bizarre social encounters as wel
 l as temporal and spatial discontinuities with very minimal insight into t
 he hallucinatory nature of these experiences. This led to the proposal tha
 t dreaming can be treated as a model of psychosis rather than typical waki
 ng consciousness (Allan Hobson). While psychological studies continue info
 rming (and challenging) both of these accounts\, recent cognitive neurosci
 ence experiments brought new evidence regarding continuity of the neural c
 orrelates of behavioural\, cognitive and perceptual functions between waki
 ng life and dreaming. For instance\, inhibition of the primary sensorimoto
 r cortex during sleep reduces the frequency of motor dreams\, while the an
 ger in dreams is associated with frontal alpha asymmetry - a neural marker
  of the affective processing during wakefulness. The implication of such f
 indings for continuity/discontinuity debate is discussed\, as well as the 
 emerging new directions for the science of dreaming. 
LOCATION:Zoom meeting
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