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The effect of exposure to a preferred odour on mental sleep activity and its characteristics and affective state upon waking
Jankovská, Tereza ; Martinec Nováková, Lenka (advisor) ; Sebalo Vňuková, Martina (referee)
Tereza Jankovská Abstract Previous literature shows that preferred odours serve as powerful cues for information retrieval from autobiographic memory and that exposure to odours during sleep affects the emotional tone of dreams. In the present study, we sought to investigate how continuous stimulation with a preferred odour influences various dream characteristics, dream emotions, and post-sleep core affect during all-night exposure. Eighteen healthy adults were invited to visit the sleep laboratory three times in weekly intervals. The first visit served to adapt the participants to the laboratory environment. On the second visit, half of the participants were exposed to an odour they chose themselves or to the odourless control condition. On the third visit, they received control or exposure in a balanced order. On each visit, the participants were woken up from the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stage. Dream pleasantness, emotional charge of the dream, positive and negative emotions experienced in the dream, and four dimensions of post-sleep core affect (valence, activation, pleasant activation-unpleasant deactivation, and unpleasant activation-pleasant deactivation) were assessed. Presented results are not consistent with previous studies, i.e. no statistically significant difference between the...
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Dear Dream Diary
Fiedlerová, Marie ; Filipová, Markéta (referee) ; Štindlová, Marie (advisor)
Visual representation of my dream diary, images on the edge of reality and dreams. I see moments and events that I am sometimes not sure if they have already happened, they are yet to come or they are just a dream. I lay in my bed and I see visions in between reality and something absurd, images dance around me in the dark of the night and take a form in the morning light of my room on the canvas of white walls.
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Other places
Jáchim, Jan ; Skála, Jiří (referee) ; Klímová, Barbora (advisor)
Walk through a fictional dreamed space. Audiovisual installation combines surround sound and parallel text commentary. Using the imagination of sound illusion, projected text and absence of image, it aims to motivate the spactator's dreaming.
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The Sleeping Corridor
Přikrylová, Veronika ; Jeřábková, Edith (referee) ; Ambrůz, Jan (advisor)
Series of objects derived from furniture which subjects to dreamlike decay. The starting topic of work Sleeping hallway is the ability of author's reflection on a specified, limited task, requested from the selected theorist which I, without modification, adopted as my own.
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Motif of dream and dreaming in Art Education Project at Primary School
ČERNÁ, Daniela
This diploma thesis Dream and dreaming in Art Education at Primary school is dedicated to common states of consciosness and their usage in art activities with pupils at Primary school. The diploma thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and project part. The teoretical part is dealing with a dream from the point of the view of psychology. By using professional sources we will try to explain meaning of our dreams and origins of this specific state of consciousness. We will introduce how the well-known psychologist worked with dreams and dreaming and how they tried to express that. We will define the different types of dreams we could encounter. The second chapter is dedicated to the dreams in the art. It deals with artwork of selected painters from the Czech Republic and foreign countries, who were inspired by dreams and dreaming and they decided to use this theme in their artwork. The next part is developing didactic view on the problematic of working with the given topic and ilustrate the direction and ways of working with the theme of dreams in the Art Education at Primary school. The project part intorduces six lessons of the art series "Dreams and dreaming", which reflect the work with different themes related to the dreams and dreamimg in art education.
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Dear Dream Diary
Fiedlerová, Marie ; Filipová, Markéta (referee) ; Štindlová, Marie (advisor)
Visual representation of my dream diary, images on the edge of reality and dreams. I see moments and events that I am sometimes not sure if they have already happened, they are yet to come or they are just a dream. I lay in my bed and I see visions in between reality and something absurd, images dance around me in the dark of the night and take a form in the morning light of my room on the canvas of white walls.
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The effect of psychedelics on sleep
Šachová, Pavla ; Kopřivová, Jana (advisor) ; Spišská, Veronika (referee)
Recently, psychedelic drugs gain attention thanks to their potential to cure depressive disorders, anxious states or addiction. They are not causing addiction, they are not toxic and they trigger neuroplastic changes in tens of minutes or hours, which are essential for therapeutic purposes and positively correlates with an onset of antidepressant effect. Neuroplastic changes are simultaneously the connecting link between psychedelic state and sleep. In sleep the higher rate of neuroplasticity is markable during slow-wave sleep (SWS), which duration is getting shorter in patients with mental illness. The marker o neuroplasticity is slow-wave activity (SWA), which is getting higher not only in SWS, but also after intoxication with psychedelics or after long-time using of antidepressants. So the effect of psychedelics on sleep can be described as positive and inciting its therapeutical potential. The thesis is focused on ketamine which is the most recent one as for the topic of neuroplasticity and sleep.
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