Exploring dreams and the subconscious

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Short history: Indo-European Community, Persians with named trained professionals magus, Mesopotamians, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, India, the Middle Ages, the emergence of psychoanalysis, the neuroscience of dreams

Notable achievements: the stages of sleep and types of dreams were identified, the discovery of the cognitive functions of dreams, methods for inducing and controlling dreams, the identification of factors influencing dreams, the development of methods of dream interpretation, the exploration of the role of dreams in healing and personal development, the esoteric explanation of dream, notable achievements attributed to the subconscious (automation of processes, subliminal perception, implicit learning, creativity, influence of emotions, implicit memory)

Exemplary stories: Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley (author of the famous novel Frankenstein), Edgar Allan Poe (novels cum ar fi Morella and Ligeia), Mircea Eliade, the inventor Elias Howe, the chemist Kekulé, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, Allan Hobson ("The activation-synthesis hypothesis"), J. Allan Hobson ("the dream brain hypothesis"), Frederic Bartlett (the story War of the Ghosts, dream memory)

Gallery of portraits of scholars: Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Mircea Eliade

Exploration through Imaginary/Speculative Fiction. Fictional works dedicated to the dream and the subconscious: in literature, in cinematography, in the visual arts

Unclear hypotheses, conspiracies, mysteries: lucid dreams, premonitory dreams, intuition, premonition, somnambulism, hypnosis, out-of-body or out-of-body experiences, communication with spirits, déjà vu, ancestral memory, telepathy

Insights into dreams and the subconscious: psychodynamic perspective, cognitive perspective, neuroscientific perspective, evolutionary perspective, intercultural perspective, transpersonal perspective, non-scientific perspectives; the experimental study of dream content and recall, neuroscientific, studies on the neurobiology of dream-related sleep disorders, clinical research and therapeutic applications, cross-cultural and anthropological perspectives; examples of research projects (the role of dreams in memory consolidation, how dreams can help process traumatic emotions, genes that can influence the predisposition to lucid dreams)

Author

  • Born on the 9th day of November 1998 in the town of Potcoava, located in Olt county, in a family of modest means. A graduate of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Craiova, she debuted under the auspices of the Writers' Union in an anthology dedicated to Romania's national day, later dedicating herself to SF literature, bringing to light titles such as Silence for Muramono, Sators, Creatura din Vorniam , in the magazines Helion SF, Egophobia, Scriitorul, etc.

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