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A standout resource on the emerging field of applying neuropsychology and the latest findings in sleep and dream research to religious experience, this book investigates the proven biological links between REM dreams and religious ideas, covering past and current schools of thought in both the science of dreams and the science of religion. Across time and around the world, billions of people with highly dissimilar backgrounds and cultures have felt spiritual or religious inspiration that shaped their lives and supplemented their mental strength—and in many cases, this inspiration came via a dream. The "how" and "why" of this common phenomenon is one that science has largely failed to explain. In this book, nationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist Patrick McNamara taps the latest science in sleep and dreams as well as neuropsychology to investigate one facet of the answer from the "inside out"—the human brain's role. The first study of its kind in an emerging field, Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams provides a comprehensive summary of past theory and examines the latest science on dreams, REM sleep, cognitive approaches to religion, and neuroscience approaches to religion. Readers will come away with an in-depth understanding of how and why god beliefs and spiritual convictions so often emerge in our dreams. Dedicated sections address special dream types like visitation dreams, nightmares, precognitive dreams, "big" dreams, lucid dreams, paralysis dreams, twin dreams, and more.

Table of Contents:
Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Caveats History of the Religion–Dreams Link Chapter 1. Dreams That Appear to Yield Direct Perceptual Evidence of a Spirit Realm Nightmares Meeting One's Double in a Dream/Nightmare Visitation Dreams and Spirits Lucid Dreaming and Religious Consciousness Precognitive Dreams False Awakenings and Sleep Paralysis Dreams REM Parasomnias Chapter 2. The Anthropology of Dreams and Religion Chapter 3. Cognitive Processes in Dreams That Produce Religious Ideas Cognitive Processes in Dreams That Give Rise to Religious Ideas: Supernatural Agents (SAs) Cognitive Models of Agency REM Sleep, Emotional Regulation, and Personality Traits Theory-of-Mind Attributions REM, Theory of Mind, and the Default Network Chapter 4. The Neurobiology of REM Is the Core Neurobiology of Religious Experiences PGO Waves and the Orienting Reaction (OR) Psychopharmacology of REM Sleep and the Chemistry of Altered States of Consciousness Overlap with Neurobiology of Religiousness REM intrusion and Daydreams REM and the Dopamine Systems REM-Related Computations of Value and Salience Chapter 5. Why REM Sleep May Be a Highly Sensitive Perceptual System A Brief Detour into the Senses Weak Signals in Dreams Precognitive Dreams Redux Twin Dreams and Weak Signals Is the Information We Get in Dreams Reliable? Dreamwork, Creativity, and Religious Ideas Chapter 6. Religiosity and Dream Recall Non-Dreamers and Religiosity Sleep Disorders and Religiosity Dreams in Schizophrenia Autism Dreams in the Subgroup of Patients with Parkinson's Disease Who Report Lower Levels of Religiosity Chapter 7. Implications and Conclusions Religion, Dreams, and Morality Is Religion an Adaptation? Creating Individuals Who Can Cooperate Over the Long Term Enter Religion Universality Effortless Acquisition of Religiousness Specific Biology Appendices Appendix A: A Quick Tour of the Brain Science Relevant for Religion and REM Sleep Appendix B: How Scientists Study REM and NREM Dreams Appendix C: Dream Transcripts across a Single Night of Sleep Appendix D: Dream Transcripts Scored for Agency Changes Index

About the Author :
Patrick McNamara, PhD, is associate professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and professor at Northcentral University.


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  • ISBN-13: 9798216076308
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution
  • ISBN-10: 8216076304
  • Publisher Date: 26 Sep 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Sub Title: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams


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