Psychodynamic Neurology Dreams, Consciousness, and Virtual Reality [Paperback]

Psychodynamic Neurology: Dreams, Consciousness, and Virtual Realtypresents a novel way of thinking about the value of dreaming, based in solid comprehension of scientific research on sleep and dreams, but with deep understanding of psychoanalytic and other interpretations of dreams.

This book:

• Surveys the remarkable history of sleep research over the past few decades
• Examines the neurobiology of sleep and its implications for consciousness and well-being
• Addresses the nature of waking and dreaming consciousness and how they are deeply related
• Presents the neurogenesis, function, and clinical importance of a brain-based dream theory

Our dreams are a mixture of anticipated virtual as well as remembered real experience. This book tells the story of how neuroscience has helped us reach this startling and exciting conclusion and how the new scientific model builds upon and departs from the dream theories of the past.

Historical Background: The Mind-Brain Schism of 1900
Virtual Reality Dream12/6/2011
Philosophical Issues
The Freudian Split
Modern Sleep Science
Psychodynamics
William James
Helmholtz and the Pact Against Vitalism
Wilhelm Wundt

Neurological Development: Sleep and Dream Science
Noreene Storrie and Potatoes11/26/2012
Self and Agency
Fetal Brain Activation
Sleep Eye Movement
I Move, Therefore I Am
Separate Selves
Vision in Waking and Dreaming
A Virtual Space for Virtual Sensation and Virtual Movement
Taking Virtual Reality Seriously
Evolution
Self-Organization
Dreaming in Real-Time
Time Sense in Dreams

Lucid Dreaming: Splitting Primary and Secondary Consciousness
Waking Dream1/12/13
Flip-Flop StlC