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Do Both Psychopathology and Creativity Result from a Labile Wake-Sleep-Dream Cycle? DO BOTH PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND CREATIVITY RESULT FROM A LABILE WAKE-SLEEP-DREAM CYCLE? EDITED BY : Sue Llewellyn and Martin Desseilles PUBLISHED IN : Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers Copyright Statement About Frontiers © Copyright 2007-2017 Frontiers Media SA. All rights reserved. Frontiers is more than just an open-access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering All content included on this site, approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, video/audio clips, is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal downloads, data compilations and software, is the property of or is opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. 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Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers ISSN 1664-8714 Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial ISBN 978-2-88945-337-5 DOI 10.3389/978-2-88945-337-5 Office:[email protected] Frontiers in Psychology 1 November 2017 | Psychopathology, Creativity and Labile Sleep DO BOTH PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND CREATIVITY RESULT FROM A LABILE WAKE-SLEEP-DREAM CYCLE? Topic Editors: Sue Llewellyn, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Martin Desseilles, University of Namur, Belgium “The Creative Mind in Sleep and Wake” by Sam Price. Used under First Use Licence. Laypeople think of wake, sleep and dreaming as distinct states of the mind/brain but “in-be- tween”, hybrid states are recognized. For example, day-dreaming or, more scientifically, the default network occurs during wake. Equally, during sleep, lucid dreaming in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep presents as another hybrid state. But hybrid states are usually temporary. This book explores the possibility of an enduring hybrid wake-sleep-dream state, proposing that such a state may engender both creativity and psychopathologies. REM sleep is hyper-associ- ative. Creativity depends on making remote associations. If REM sleep and dreaming begin to suffuse the wake state, enhanced creativity may result. But moderate to severe interpenetration of wake, sleep and dreaming may engender psychopathologies – as the functions of wake, sleep and dreaming are partially eroded. Citation: Llewellyn, S., Desseilles, M., eds. (2017). Do Both Psychopathology and Creativity Result from a Labile Wake-Sleep-Dream Cycle? Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-337-5 Frontiers in Psychology 2 November 2017 | Psychopathology, Creativity and Labile Sleep Table of Contents 04 Editorial: Do Both Psychopathology and Creativity Result from a Labile Wake-Sleep-Dream Cycle? Sue Llewellyn and Martin Desseilles Chapter 1: Creative insight, labile sleep and consciousness 07 Labile sleep promotes awareness of abstract knowledge in a serial reaction time task Roumen Kirov, Vasil Kolev, Rolf Verleger and Juliana Yordanova 17 Increased Performance Variability as a Marker of Implicit/Explicit Interactions in Knowledge Awareness Juliana Yordanova, Roumen Kirov and Vasil Kolev Chapter 2: Creativity, personal insights and dreaming 28 Dissociative states in dreams and brain chaos: implications for creative awareness Petr Bob and Olga Louchakova 34 Comparing personal insight gains due to consideration of a recent dream and consideration of a recent event using the Ullman and Schredl dream group methods Christopher L. Edwards, Josie E. Malinowski, Shauna L. McGee, Paul D. Bennett, Perrine M. Ruby and Mark T. Blagrove Chapter 3: Labile sleep and psychopathologies 44 Dream-reality confusion in borderline personality disorder: a theoretical analysis Dagna Skrzypin’ska and Barbara Szmigielska 52 Imagining the impossible before breakfast: the relation between creativity, dissociation, and sleep Dalena van Heugten - van der Kloet, Jan Cosgrave, Harald Merckelbach, Ross Haines, Stuart Golodetz and Steven Jay Lynn 60 Dreams as a source of supernatural agent concepts Patrick McNamara and Kelly Bulkeley Chapter 4: REM sleep, hyperassociativity and creativity 68 The role of REM sleep theta activity in emotional memory Isabel C. Hutchison and Shailendra Rathore 83 Autobiographical memory and hyperassociativity in the dreaming brain: implications for memory consolidation in sleep Caroline L. Horton and Josie E. Malinowski 97 Metaphor and hyperassociativity: the imagination mechanisms behind emotion assimilation in sleep and dreaming Josie E. Malinowski and Caroline L. Horton Frontiers in Psychology 3 November 2017 | Psychopathology, Creativity and Labile Sleep EDITORIAL published: 20 October 2017 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01824 Editorial: Do Both Psychopathology and Creativity Result from a Labile Wake-Sleep-Dream Cycle? Sue Llewellyn 1* and Martin Desseilles 2 1 Humanities, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2 Psychology, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium Keywords: psychopathology, creativity, state de-differentiation, labile sleep, creative insight Editorial on the Research Topic Do Both Psychopathology and Creativity Result from a Labile Wake-Sleep-Dream Cycle? We invited contributions on the following hypothesis: the boundaries between wake, sleep, and dreaming (W/S/D) can become less distinct, engendering a de-differentiated, disordered state in which wake, sleep and dreaming become interpenetrated (see Llewellyn, 2016, for a review). In other words, the state differentiation which, through differing neuromodulation and input-output gating, achieves the W/S/D cycle is disrupted. Consequently, the mind/brain assumes more of a hybrid, de-differentiated wake-sleep-dream state across the cycle. Due to the chaos dynamics of brain processes, where a small change can engender diverse results, de- differentiation can take a variety of forms. A slight to moderate degree of penetration of wake by REM sleep may result in enhanced creativity. Normal waking consciousness is a sub-critical, ordered state (Carhart-Harris et al., 2014) whereas creative states are critical. Creative insight depends on spreading neural activation to make remote associations amongst memory (including knowledge) elements (Yaniv and Meyer, 1987; Dijksterhuis and Meurs,
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