Dream Life Research Articles

Radar in the darkness. The dreams and art of a psychotherapist in a forensic institution

Under the assault of disturbing experiences that seem sealed into a bodily discourse, there appears an increased permeability between the dream space and the psychotherapy space. It is in the forensic in-patient hospital environment that I have commonly sat with a calm and compliant patient to find myself grappling with an overwhelming pull toward sleep. Such tiredness in countertransference can be understood as a manifestation of the weight of buried or repressed disturbance which can only seemingly be registered at a bodily level. Forensic patients are usually the subject of vilification from the courtrooms to sensationalist media reports in a system that further bottlenecks their emotional lives. It seems to me that sometimes there can be a fine line between continuing the trend of condemnation and the taking up of clinical responsibility. It is perhaps one of the most helpful aspects of psychoanalytic work, that we consider the projective processes involved in the criminal justice system. That we look to ourselves and our own countertransference for greater clinical clarity, a radar in the darkness. It is with this in mind that I write an introspective paper focussing on the lens of my own dream life and artistic responses to the environment of a forensic institution.

Gratitude and Dream in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist

This study article demonstrates how dreams may provide a person with a great sense of inspiration and encourage them to pursue their aspirations. It will cause a person to go through a lot of hardships and detours in life, but whether they realize it or not, dreams have the power to mold someone’s life into something productive. According to Paulo, one should always aspire for what makes life more fascinating since the rush of realizing a desire will prevent one from going crazy. Paulo Coelho has also pursued and fulfilled his dreams in real life. Paulo Coelho describes how the dream had a significant impact on Santiago’s life in his book The Alchemist.

Poems of the (un)conscious: a narrative approach to dream analysis

ABSTRACT As a narrative therapist with an interest in psychoanalytic dream analysis, I have troubled myself for quite some time thinking of ways that dream-work can be introduced to my practice through the erudition of the narrative metaphor. However, in implying that the primary constituents of our thoughts and behaviours are not available to our conscious recollection and that they require an ‘expert’ to decipher their meanings, the psychoanalytic metaphor of the ‘unconscious’ and it’s corresponding treatment of the dream poses particular challenges to the de-centered posture of the narrative therapist. In this piece I thereby recruit Derrida’s ideas of the ‘poem’ and his treatment of the ‘unconscious’ to theorize a post-structuralist approach to dream work that can harmonize with the ethics of narrative practice. Becoming of this exploration is a ‘map’ of dream analysis that supports therapists to approach dream life from the position of the bricoleur: a posture that values clients as the author of the dreams possibilities.

Reinterpretasi Peran Ideologi Muhammadiyah Terhadap Pemberantasan TBC (Tahayul, Bid’ah dan Churafat)

This research aims to determine the construct of Muhammadiyah ideology. This research is included in the qualitative research category with a literature review as the data collection method. The data used is in the form of concepts and understanding related to Muhammadiyah Ideology, the data sources are books and journals that examine Muhammadiyah Ideology in terms of outlook on life, life guidelines for Muhammadiyah citizens and Muhammadiyah strategies in realizing their life dreams. The data analysis technique uses a simplified approach. The results of the research show that Muhammadiyah Ideology is a set of understandings that contain Muhammadiyah views, life guidelines and strategies in realizing their life ideals. Muhammadiyah's outlook on life is reflected in the muqaddimah of Muhammadiyah's articles of association which contains views on anchor, society, views on Islamic teachings, upholding Islamic teachings, the prophet's arrival in the struggle, organizational views and Muhammadiyah's ideals. Muhammadiyah citizens' life guidelines discuss self- guidelines in religion, socializing in society, organizing and guidelines in state life. There are several Muhammadiyah strategies in realizing its life aspirations which are pursued by developing society related to aqidah, worship and morals, improving the quality of life of the community, developing Muhammadiyah cadres, strengthening Muhammadiyah associations and appropriate political and state strategies. Furthermore, this ideological construct can be used as a basis for developing instruments to measure the strength of Muhammadiyah ideology as well as to eradicate TB (Superstition, Bid'ah and Churafat) community diseases.

Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction

Book Review| June 12 2023 Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction. By Talia Schaffer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. xvii + 274 pp. Zarena Aslami Zarena Aslami Zarena Aslami is associate professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She is author of The Dream Life of Citizens: Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State (2012). Her writing has appeared in Novel: A Forum, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Victorian Studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly 10574891. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10574891 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Zarena Aslami; Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction. Modern Language Quarterly 2023; 10574891. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10574891 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsModern Language Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington2023 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

End-of-Life Dreams and Visions

End-of-Life Dreams and Visions Abstract: End-of life dreams and visions (ELDVs) or so-called death bed phenomena are transcendent experiences at the end of life that can be visual, auditory and/or kinesthetic, and often include visions of (deceased) loved ones, close friends or perceptions of places, travels, bright lights, or music. ELDVs typically occur weeks to hours prior to death and may comfort the dying and prepare spiritually for the end of life. Such experiences are frequently reported by dying individuals, the prevalence varying between 30 and 80%, but in the clinical context ELDVs are usually neglected, but interpreted and treated as pathological changes in the brain that result in, and from, delirium. This article tries to enlighten the occurrence, the contents and meanings of ELDVs in dying persons as opposed to delirium and night dreams using findings from the literature and from clinical observations. Implications of these conclusions for palliative care and the therapeutic relevance of ELDVs when taking care of dying individuals and their loved ones will also be discussed.

Quarante ans de recherches au CNRS : une vie de rêve…

Guy Jacques honorary research director at the CNRS tells of the forty or so years spent in this agency as well as the twenty plus years of very active retired life spent as a scientific popularizer. Full of often entertaining stories, this book starts with the acceptance at the CNRS without thesis or publication that today’s candidates would envy! These were the times when oceanography was a national priority. Besides his own research on phytoplankton (he started a program of study of the Antarctic ocean), Jacques talks about his various postings: CNRS, Ifremer and Orstom where he was director of scientific information. It is obviously not by chance that the author chose as subtitle to this book the sentence: “the best of lives!”

Metaverse: Opportunities and Challenges for Marketers

Imagine if you are told that the life in which you are living, will going to be changed. How it will make you feel if you get to know that you can meet with your family members, friends, and go to work, not in real life, but rather in a three-dimensional virtual world? A world that is created artificially. Metaverse is a step ahead of imagination. Indeed, it is defined as an imaginary world where we can be a part of it, we can earn money from it, and ultimately, where, we can be a star by living our dream life.

Cultivating a Dream as a Child Growing Up in the Deep South: Keeping the Dream Alive for Today’s Children

The 2021 Oscar Causey Award Address presented at the Literacy Research Association by Professor Dr. Patricia A. Edwards is a response to two self-reflexive questions: “How were my dreams cultivated as a little Black girl growing up in Albany, Georgia during the mid-fifties. sixties, and early seventies?” and “What implications does my story have for cultivating the dreams of today's children?” To explore these questions, Edwards uses a qualitative methodology termed portraiture ( Lawrence-Lightfoot & Davis, 1997 ) to capture her insights and experiences, allowing her to “paint” rich pictures of the participants “in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human experience and organizational life” (p. xv). Through portraiture, which relies heavily on the use of storytelling and narration, Edwards converts the term “research” into “I-search” ( Macrorie, 1988 ), affording her the opportunity to reflect on her lived experiences and share those moments and events with the world while also abolishing the “gaze” that some forms of quantitative and qualitative methodologies employ. In turn, she leverages narratives—via pictures, portraits, and audio—of her life as a Black girl growing up in Albany, Georgia, to construct meaning of her experiences and of her life. In doing so, Edwards highlights the impact of The Albany Civil Rights Movement in cultivating her dream. She invites teachers, school districts, literacy leaders, and the broader community to use her narrative portrait as a basis for creating a new norm that cultivates the dreams of young Black students, and of students of color in general.

ЛИТЕРАТУРНОЕ МНОГОЯЗЫЧИЕ ОЛЬГИ ГРУШИНОЙ КАК ОСОБЕННОСТЬ АВТОРСКОГО СТИЛЯ ПИСАТЕЛЬНИЦЫ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ РОМАНОВ "40 ROOMS" И "THE CHARMED WIFE")

The article describes the features of Olga Grushin’s literary multilingualism. Novels by the Russian Anglophone writer (“The Dream Life of Sukhanov”, 2005; “The Line”, 2010; “Forty Rooms”, 2016; “The Charmed Wife”, 2021) have been interesting not only to her readers but to many linguists and literary scholars and critics. The novels represent a mix of two cultures, two language systems and two literary traditions. The writer’s individual style has been formed due to her transcultural experience with Russian culture incorporated into the English of the text.

The power of daydreaming: the aesthetic act of a new beginning

ABSTRACT What can we learn from a better understanding of the process of daydreaming in an organizational context? That is the main question underpinning this study. Based on a field study with a rural entrepreneur that uses daydreaming as her main strategic tool in the development of her farm, and a reading of Bachelard’s work on the phenomenology of ‘reverie,’ we come to understand daydreaming as an embodied act that emerges at the intersection between relational materiality, vertical temporality and aesthetic space. This conceptualization of daydreaming reminds us that rather than focusing on how to make dreams come true, which is the traditional way of relating to dreams in organizational life, there is a need to enable people to dream anew, because that is when new beginnings can be born, and the particular will to act, through daydreaming, can be released.

Project Review: Michele Mattei: The Grids of Winter; Motherboards: Our New Bloodlines; and My Cyborg Life

Review| September 01 2021 Project Review: Michele Mattei: The Grids of Winter; Motherboards: Our New Bloodlines; and My Cyborg Life Michele Mattei: The Grids of Winter; Motherboards: Our New Bloodlines; and My Cyborg Life. Roni Feinstein Roni Feinstein Roni Feinstein, PhD, is an independent scholar based in Southern California who currently teaches at UCLA Extension. For links to her writing, visit ronifeinstein.com. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2021) 48 (3): 71–76. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.3.71 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Roni Feinstein; Project Review: Michele Mattei: The Grids of Winter; Motherboards: Our New Bloodlines; and My Cyborg Life. Afterimage 1 September 2021; 48 (3): 71–76. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.3.71 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search During the COVID-19 Spring of 2020, French-born, Los Angeles–based photographer Michele Mattei began to contemplate what it meant for people worldwide to be shut inside their homes. She wondered about the multitude of lives confined behind closed windows and doors, which for her called to mind the opening passage of Charles Baudelaire’s 1869 poem Les fenêtres (Windows), which she has loved since early childhood:He who looks out at the world from an open window never sees as many things as he who looks at a closed window. There is nothing deeper, more mysterious, more fruitful, more shadowy, or more dazzling than a window lit by a candle. What we can see in daylight is always less interesting than what happens behind a windowpane. Deep in that dark or luminous aperture, life lives, life dreams, life suffers.1 Thus inspired, Mattei sought to give form to what she describes as... You do not currently have access to this content.

Souls in Civilization – Why Do We Struggle to Read Olive Schreiner’s Short Fiction and Allegories?

Olive Schreiner’s short fiction, published in Dreams (1890), Dream Life and Real Life (1893) and Stories, Dreams and Allegories (published posthumously in 1923), were very popular on their publication and were praised for their aestheticism and political thought. This paper attempts to explore why these stories and allegories have not been taken up as much as Schreiner’s other work in the present day by reading them in the context of various perspectives on allegory.

Design studio challenge, as a creativity fostering tool for product Design students

Improving students’ creativity skills is design instructors’ dream, that’s why there are many techniques to achieve that, as a design instructor you want your students to think out of the box, to be motivated and competitive, you want to make sure they make the best out of the design lecture time. Students waiting for the professor feedback on their projects would be irritating, as the time you spend with each one would mean a wasted time for the others, they would be anxious, and worried about feedback on their work, so they just sit waiting for calling their names for the follow up. Instructors’ life dream is to have great time management inside the classroom, students gaining knowledge, benefitting from lecture time, have one on one time with each student, making sure they are on the right track. Design challenges is a well-known activity in design communities, it simply aims to keep designers motivated, some time it’s time controlled, in others, its topic controlled. The research aims to discover the potentials resulting from applying design challenges in classroom while inspiring the students for design thinking, how will this be applied? is this going to improve their creativity skills? would this help the instructor for better classroom time management? The experiment is taking place during product design studio in, College of Applied Arts, Product Design Department for, the experiment is documented using videos and photos

Dreams and waking life connection

The present study explored individual’s connection between dreams and his waking life. Individuals’ personal experiences of dreams, their existence, purpose, belief, and truthfulness were explored in relationship to their daily life functioning. Present study aimed at identifying the collective themes of participants with researchers’ reflection. The sample of four adults (2 males, 2 females) with age range of 18-35 was recruited from different universities of Lahore. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted through interview schedule regarding participants’ personal demographics, schedules and hours of sleep, belief on the occurrences and fulfillment of dreams. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was applied to analyze the data individually and collectively across all participants. Findings revealed that 10 themes were generated from the data that include curiosity about dream content, dream and real life connection, intuition about death, wish fulfillment in dreams, sense of morality in dreams, and information about personality through dreams etc. These themes help us in better understanding of dreams and waking life connection.

Dreaming and the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey in a U.S. sample.

This study analyzes the responses of 3,031 U S adults who, in early May of 2020, completed an online survey regarding their dreams and the COVID-19 outbreak The results indicate that those people most strongly affected by the pandemic also reported the strongest effects on their dream life (heightened dream recall, more negatively toned dreams, and pandemic-related dreams) Pronounced negative effects of the pandemic on dreaming were also found to be more likely among women and people with higher levels of education These findings support the notion that changes in the frequency, tone, and contents of dreaming can help identify specific people who may be most at risk for mental health problems during the COVID-19 outbreak

Dreaming the Field: The Analyst’s Dreams as a Co-Creative Act

ABSTRACTWhen the analyst shares a personal dream with a patient, they must first engage thoughtful self-reflection. In two treatments, I take a leap of faith and disclose my countertransference dreams as a reflection of our bi-directional, intersubjective exchange. In utilizing my dreams, I convey how I apprehend and represent my patients’ experience in my imagination, expressing a sense of twinship and shared humanity. I view my dream life as an opportunity for my patients’ psychic dilemmas to take up residence in my imagination, a “specificity of recognition,” as previously unshareable affect states are rendered creatively for our mutual reflection and become a shared dream field. In this way, my patients’ stories become real and memorialized in my unconscious experience and elaborated in our therapeutic dialogue. In our collaborative dream interpretation, we make meaning together as mutual, co-creative but asymmetrical therapeutic partners. In this exchange, openness to mutual vulnerability embodies the humanistic project of psychoanalytic healing.

Learning disability and work inclusion: on the experiences, aspirations and empowerment of sheltered employment workers in Norway

This inclusive research inspired study explored the experiences of people with learning disabilities working in a Norwegian sheltered employment company. The study aimed at developing knowledge on the working experiences of people with learning disabilities and the impact of their participation in the study. We employed focus groups, supplemented by informal discussions to generate data for the study. Together with the employees and employers, we established two three-member focus groups. The participants, both males and females, discussed their work experiences and the empowering consequences of participating in the research. The data indicated that the employees had desires to work fully in ordinary companies, assuming socially valued roles. The participants experienced a combination of work in ordinary and sheltered employment companies as less stressful and satisfying. The adopted inclusive research strategy empowered our research partners to reflect on their experiences and made efforts to meet their working life dreams. Points of interest Participation in work-life is a central policy for all Norwegian citizens, including people with learning disabilities. This article presents and discusses the personal experiences of people with learning disabilities whose desire it is to work and contribute their quota to the Norwegian society. The research participants indicated that many people with learning disabilities would like to be a part of ordinary working life, but face barriers to attaining their goals. A combination of sheltered and ordinary work seems to work well for research participants with learning disabilities. Participation in this inclusive research seemed to empower people with learning disabilities and enabled them to realize their dreams and aspiration regarding work-life.

КУЛЬТУРНО-ЯЗЫКОВАЯ ЛИЧНОСТЬ ОЛЬГИ ГРУШИНОЙ КАК ПИСАТЕЛЯ ТРАНСЛИНГВА

The article describes the specifics of Olga Grushin’s cultural and linguistic personality. Novels by the Russian Anglophone writer (“The Dream Life of Sukhanov”, 2005; “The Line”, 2010; “Forty Rooms”, 2016) have become a great source of material showing the author’s national and cultural identity. The novels have been analysed to find the features of Grushin’s syntax as well as value dominants representing her culture and language identity

Music and dreams: A review

The purpose of this paper is to review scientific studies of music dreams and also touch the area of creative music dreams, i.e., dreams inspiring new music. Different types of music dream categories will be defined. In large sample, the percentage of music dreams in relation to all remembered dreams ranges from 4% to 8%. The literature indicates that musicians tend to experience more music dreams than non-musicians. The positive correlation between musical activities in waking life and music dream percentage supports the continuity hypothesis of dreaming. Also in line with the continuity hypothesis are the findings that music dreams are more positively toned than dreams in general. As research regarding this topic is still in its infancy, there are several interesting topics for the future studies, e.g., incubating creative music dreams, stimulating the sleeper with music, or the relationship between music and sleep-dependent memory consolidation.