Bizarre dreams

CA/S - Akathesia, akinesia, asthenia, bizarre dreams, depression, drowsiness, extrapyramidal symptoms, headache, hyperkinesia, insomnia, NMS, somnolence. 

Pentazocine is contraindicated in the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction because of cardiovascular stimulation. Psychotomimetic side effects, such as hallucinations, bizarre dreams, and sensations of depersonalisation, occur in about 6-10% of patients. They are more common in elderly patients, in those who are ambulatory, and when doses above 60 mg are given. Nausea occurs in approximately 5% of patients although vomiting is less common. Other commonly reported side effects are dizziness and drowsiness. The risk of physical dependence is low. 

No doubt this third architecturally bizarre dream is as typical and meaningful as the other two. Mass Mental is endangered. It is neglected. And, in the panic of political uncertainty about the future it is vulnerable to used furniture collectors—like me and the Carl Schwartz wannabes of our dreams But this transparent meaning doesn t explain why the furniture was not veridical, why Carl Schwartz was still there, why he didn t really look like himself and—most of all—why I didn t notice all of these discrepancies and wake up to the obvious fact that I was dreaming. 

I can appreciate how completely taken over my perceptions could be were I to hallucinate. I understand, on contemplating my delusional lack of insight when dreaming, how unwelcome and futile it would be to try to talk me out of a paranoid belief. Because when dreaming I believe the most bizarre dream events are real, I know that weirdness is no sure tip-off that I am out of my mind. And, more importantly, I can use the experience of dream hallucination and delusion to create an alliance by directly (sometimes) and indirectly (always) communicating my understanding of the power and subjective reality of psychosis. 

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At the 18th hour, there was some fitful sleep, with bizarre dreams. 

Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disorder characterized by abnormal thinking, psychosis (delusions, paranoia, hearing voices), lack of emotion, and loss of function in one s school or workplace. The bizarre thought patterns of schizophrenics often resemble that of dream content, and in fact it was once hypothesized that people with schizophrenia suffered from intrusions of REM sleep into wakefulness, much like that seen in people with narcolepsy. However, most scientific evidence suggests that this is not the case. 

Hypnagogic hallucinations—Bizarre and often frightening dreams and sounds that occur during the onset or waking up from cataplexy. 

The first dream had to do with the dairy barn that I am restoring on my farm in Vermont. I was talking to Bob Limlaw, the master builder-carpenter who is doing the work. The second dream had to do with pipe leaks in my recently rebuilt farm house, also in Vermont, but all of the characters and themes referred to my laboratory in Boston, which badly needs remodeling now. The third dream concerned the bizarre and unique 1912-period office furniture that was being pilfered by my hospital colleagues as they anticipated the imminent closing of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. 

Between the time I went to sleep and the time I woke up my consciousness had somehow been reactivated, but it had also been radically altered. Because of these radical alterations, I was unable to connect my dream experience to my current whereabouts or even to recognize the bizarre content as a dream. 

The fact that the visual imagery of my dream is synthetic and bizarre could itself be isomorphic to the autoactivation of the visual brain—to the near simultaneous activation of visual networks encoding general barn features, features of my particular barn, and the local architectural elements, cement and stone, that I was playing with on my walk last night. 

In all three of my dreams these features were prominent, yet I did not notice that my Vermont barn was so different that it could not possibly be my barn—even with the impossible alterations that had been made. Pipes in my Vermont farm house were a pastiche of the plumbing that is really there and the plumbing in my Boston laboratory. These glaring incongruities and discontinuities are the very essence of dream bizarreness. In waking, perceptions like this would cause such alarm that I would consider consulting some other psychiatrist. 

Freud correctly assumed that the failure of self-reflection in dreams that results in our delusional belief that we are awake, can fly, or survive surely deadly falls from vertiginous heights was akin to psychosis. As such we accurately regard it as primary process thinking, which is by definition narcissistic, omnipotent, and uncritical. But why does it have this character And by what mechanisms Certainly not to defend consciousness from invasion (because consciousness is invaded by primary processes in this case ). It seems far more likely that this failure to test reality is the outcome of an organic deficit related to two other deficit conditions of dreaming, the disorientation that creates bizarreness and the amnesia that creates dream forgetting. 

My dinner party hostess, who happened to be a descendent of Mary Arnold-Eoster, sent me home with her copy of Studies in Dreams, where the technique of lucid dreaming and its psychedelic delights are described in detail. I was as attracted by the idea of flying in my dreams as I was by the power of self-hypnosis, so I followed Arnold-Eoster s prescription. I simply put a notebook by my bedside, so as to be able to record my dream recall, and told myself, before going to sleep. I ll pay attention to my consciousness, which I would know to be dreaming because of the bizarre discontinuities and incongruities of time, place, and person. 

Now we need to tie the priming with its residual activation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex neuronal networks to the emergence, in REM, of a reactivation of those networks. I propose that the residual activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is amplified by the REM activation of these other cortical networks that produce dream bizarreness via the associative resonance that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has been primed to detect. And indeed, the dawning awareness that this must be a dream feels, subjectively, like a positive feedback process. Once the recognition has been inserted into delusional process it is enhanced by the mounting evidence of delusion that it observes ... 

These decreases in the I function occur in trance because external stimulus strength declines. We now note that the opposite movement of the I function in lucidity is the reciprocal enhancement of inputs external to the REM system, but rather than coming from the outside world, they come from the primed dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which has been instructed to notice—and act on—dream bizarreness by dissociating itself from REM. 

The second is that the startle hypothesis could also link sensorimotor orientation to cognitive orientation, and by constantly forcing a resetting of the former system wreak havoc with the latter. This would help us understand the orientational instability at the root of dream bizarreness. By orientational instability, I mean the tendency for dream people, places, times, and actions to be discontinuous and/or incongruous, as if the brain-mind system could never settle on a stable, internally consistent set... 

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