Dreaming mystical experience among Christians and Hindus: the impact of culture, language, and religious participation on responses to the Dreaming Mysticism Scale

Sears, Robert E.; Hood, Ralph W.

doi:10.1080/13674676.2016.1266472

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“…The sample size in the present study was small, particularly for some of the subanalyses, which may limit generalizability. Additionally, future studies should examine the role of cultural factors in drug‐related dreams, as contextual differences in dreaming have been observed in different cultures, including the perceived meaningfulness of dreaming 38 …”

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Clinical correlates of drug‐related dreams in opioid use disorder

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Background and Objectives Drug‐related dreams are commonly reported by individuals in treatment for substance use disorders, which may be distressing. Existing evidence suggests that dream recollection may be influenced by clinically relevant phenomena, such as opioid use and withdrawal, general sleep disturbance, affective symptoms, and chronic pain. However, very few studies have explored drug‐related dreams among individuals who screened positive for opioid use disorder (OUD). Methods Adults recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) who screened positive for OUD (N = 154) completed a questionnaire about drug‐related dreams, as well as measures assessing sleep, opioid use history, stress, anxiety, and chronic pain. χ2 analyses, one‐way analysis of variance, and bivariate correlations, correcting for the false discovery rate, were used as appropriate to explore correlates of (1) recollecting a drug‐related dream, and (2) experiencing post‐dream craving and distress. Results Individuals who recollected a past‐week drug‐related dream were more likely to report other recent sleep disturbances, including poorer sleep quality, greater insomnia symptoms, and a higher risk for sleep apnea. Post‐dream craving and distress were both associated with greater insomnia symptoms, poor sleep hygiene behaviors, and greater anxiety symptoms. Individuals who had ever experienced a drug‐related dream (recently, or in their lifetime) were more likely to report a history of severe withdrawal, overdose, and intravenous opioid use. Conclusion and Scientific Significance Drug‐related dreams were common among individuals in the present sample and were related to other clinically relevant phenomena. Interventions that treat co‐occurring OUD, pain, sleep symptoms, and affective symptoms may improve overall well‐being in this population.

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“…In his portrayal of dialogical I-Thou relations, Buber emphasized the pivotal character of the "fresh running springs" of poetic language (cited in [118] p. 17), a locution that echoes Ricoeur's account of "living metaphor." Although Stace [119] worried that the language of poetry was too "conceptual" to capture ecstatic experience of the "inner subjectivity" of beings in general, psychometric studies have isolated a component of extravertive mystical experience ("distributed liveliness") that is also evident in spiritual (secular) poetry [120] and in dreams [121,122]. Even so, these studies-and their authors-do not address the complexities of poetic metaphor, especially the extended themes that are disclosed in an unfolding succession of poetic metaphors.…”

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The Epistemic Limits of Impactful Dreams: Metacognition, Metaphoricity, and Sublime Feeling

Kuiken

2024

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Taxonomic studies of dreams that continue to influence the dreamer’s thoughts and feelings after awakening have distinguished three types of impactful dreams: nightmares, existential dreams, and transcendent dreams. Of these, existential dreams and transcendent dreams are characterized by recurrent metacognitive appraisal of the epistemic tension between complementary (a) metaphoric (A “is” B) assertions and (b) literal (A “is not” B) assertions. Metacognitive appraisal of such complementary metaphoric and literal assertions is detectible as the felt sense of inexpressible realizations. The poesy of such inexpressible realizations depends upon the juxtaposition of a metaphoric topic and vehicle that are both “semantically dense” but at an abstract level “distant” from each other. The result is the “emergence” of attributes of the metaphoric vehicle that are sufficiently abstract to be attributes also of the metaphoric topic. The cumulative effect of successive metaphoric/literal categorical transformations produces a higher-level form of metacognition that is consistent with a neo-Kantian account of sublime feeling. Sublime feeling occurs as either sublime disquietude (existential dreams) or as sublime enthrallment (transcendent dreams). The aftereffects of these two dream types are thematically iterative “living metaphors” that have existential (but not totalizing) abstract ontological import.

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“…In his portrayal of dialogical I-Thou relations, Buber emphasized the pivotal character of the “fresh running springs” of poetic language (cited in [ 118 ] p. 17), a locution that echoes Ricoeur’s account of “living metaphor” Although Stace [ 119 ] worried that the language of poetry was too “conceptual” to capture the ecstatic experience of the “inner subjectivity” of beings in general, psychometric studies have isolated a component of extravertive mystical experience (“distributed liveliness”) that is also evident in spiritual (secular) poetry [ 120 ] and in dreams [ 121 , 122 ]. Even so, these studies—and their authors—do not address the complexities of poetic metaphor, especially the extended and ontologically expanded themes that are disclosed in an unfolding succession of poetic metaphors.…”

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The Epistemic Limits of Impactful Dreams: Metacognition, Metaphoricity, and Sublime Feeling

Kuiken

2024

Brain Sciences

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Taxonomic studies of dreams that continue to influence the dreamer’s thoughts and feelings after awakening have distinguished three types of impactful dreams: nightmares, existential dreams, and transcendent dreams. Of these, existential dreams and transcendent dreams are characterized by recurrent metacognitive appraisal of the epistemic tension between complementary (a) metaphoric (A “is” B) assertions and (b) literal (A “is not” B) assertions. Metacognitive appraisal of such complementary metaphoric and literal assertions is detectable as the felt sense of inexpressible realizations. The poesy of such inexpressible realizations depends upon the juxtaposition of a metaphoric topic and vehicle that are both “semantically dense” but at an abstract level “distant” from each other. The result is “emergence” of attributes of the metaphoric vehicle that are sufficiently abstract to be attributes also of the metaphoric topic. The cumulative effect of successive metaphoric/literal categorical transformations produces a higher-level form of metacognition that is consistent with a neo-Kantian account of sublime feeling. Sublime feeling occurs as either sublime disquietude (existential dreams) or as sublime enthrallment (transcendent dreams). The aftereffects of these two dream types are thematically iterative “living metaphors” that have abstract (but not “totalizing”) ontological import.

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Dreaming mystical experience among Christians and Hindus: the impact of culture, language, and religious participation on responses to the Dreaming Mysticism Scale

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Clinical correlates of drug‐related dreams in opioid use disorder

Clinical correlates of drug‐related dreams in opioid use disorder

The Epistemic Limits of Impactful Dreams: Metacognition, Metaphoricity, and Sublime Feeling

The Epistemic Limits of Impactful Dreams: Metacognition, Metaphoricity, and Sublime Feeling

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