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Author |
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| Name | Campillo Ferrer, Teresa |
| Research field | Neuroscience |
| Career stage | doctoral researcher |
| Home university/institution | Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) |
| Department/Research unit at home university/institution | Psychology |
| Chair/Working group at home institution | - |
International activity |
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| Country | Japan |
| Location | Tokyo |
| University | - |
| Fund Research School | PR.INT |
| Type of activity | conference visit |
| Period |
starts 02-07-2024 ends 05-07-2024 |
| Keywords | Unusual bodily experiences, sleep, dreams, meditation, chatconsciousness, altered states of consciousness |
| Report |
Overall project and experience: Last week, I had the honor of presenting “Sleep scoring of unusual bodily experiences facilitated by a pre-sleep meditation protocol” at the ASSC 27 in Tokyo. This project holds a special place in my heart, as it took years to design an appropriate induction procedure and obtain all necessary permissions and funding to begin data collection. A few days before arriving in Tokyo, and with the invaluable support of my collaborators, we published a preprint of this induction method (https://osf.io/wf7zs). We also shared part of our final results at the ASSC 27. Not only was I able to present and discuss our results at the conference, but it was also a pleasure to connect with relevant people in the consciousness field who are working with similar experiences using completely different approaches (for example, hallucinations emerging after psychedelic consumption). I hope to collaborate with some of these researchers in the near future. Poster presentation: In summary, we used a pre-sleep meditation protocol to facilitate unusual bodily experiences (such as floating, flying or out-of-body experiences) in a controlled sleep lab. We collected high density EEG data and scored sleep from individuals reporting unusual bodily experiences. We additionally analyzed the phenomenology of n=36 unusual bodily experiences (N=20 subjects) and examined if this phenomenology could be predicted by different relevant factors such as age, sex or state of consciousness (wake vs. sleep). We found that the individual’s age (younger vs. older) and state of consciousness (sleep vs. wake) can predict the presence of visual content within the unusual bodily experience report. Final remarks: I sincerely thank the Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness for organizing such an incredible event. It was a privilege to present our work at this conference. |