Emily Jane

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SLEEP TALKING

Sleep talking is a parasomnia that refers to talking aloud while asleep.

It can range from mumbling sounds to loud shouts and long frequently inarticulate speeches and can occur many times during a sleep cycle.

As with sleep-walking and night terrors, sleep-talking usually occurs  during the less-deep delta wave NREM sleep stages or during temporary arousals there from.

It can also occur during the REM sleep stage at when time it represents what sleep therapists call a motor-breakthrough of dream speech (words spoken in a dream are spoken out loud.

Sleep talking can occur by itself or as a feature of another sleeping disorder.

Rapid eye movement behaviour disorder (RBD) - (loud, emotional, or profane sleep-talking).

Sleep Walking.

Night Terrors - Intense feat screaming, shouting.

Sleep - related eating disorder.

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IS SLEEP-TALKING A WINDOW INTO THE UNCONSCIOUS?

Your sub conscious (SC) mind is extremely active when you are in REM ( Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. this is when you are dreaming. Reaching the SC mind of yourself you do not need to be lucid, its just you don’t know you reached it until you wake. Lucidity is the recognition of the SC mind. When you are a lucid dreamer you are aware you are in a dream and therefore in the SC mind. Lucid dreamers can affect and change their dreams, the outcomes and responses as the conscious mind mingles with the sub conscious. Many things in your dreams will be illogical and without reason for example you can fly or walk on the ceiling, i personally breath under water. Becoming Lucid will open your conscious mind to your Sub conscious. you will start to recognise when you are dreaming and when you are awake. New lucid dreamers will wake when they realise with excitement they are dreaming and therefore the possibilities are unrestricted and endless. 

Sleep talking is a window to someone else’s SC. If you are listening to someone talking during their REM sleep then you are eaves dropping on their dream. What you hear however will not be rational. Like your dreams their dreams will be illogical un ordered and irrelevant to the conscious mind. These are not the persons deepest desires or the persons inner thoughts. they are fragments of memories or complete fiction. So your second part of your question no you can not read the mumbling of someones dreams as what they are really feeling. 

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Influenced by the writings of psychologist Sigmund Freud, Surrealism sought a revolution against the constraints of the rational mind and the rules of a society they saw as oppressive. Freud and other psychoanalysts used a variety of techniques to bring the subconscious to the surface of the mind...

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The word Mandala means ”circle”.

A Mandala represents wholeness, a cosmic diagram reminding us of our relation to infinity, extending beyond and within our bodies and minds.

The mandala appears to us in all aspects of life, the Earth, the Sun, the Moon and the circles of life encompassing...

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FINAL WORK - UNCONSCIOUS MOVEMENTS CREATE AN ARTWORK

This artwork was created by unconscious body movements which had occurred during deep sleep and lucid dreaming - this is when your unconscious is more dominant than your conscious mind. It is clear that the person who has slept on this bed sheet, covered in paint, did not stay still during the period of time slept. Like the unconscious mind, this artwork is obscure and abstract. It does not give us a clear indication of what the artwork is about unless explained. The plain white background represents the conscious mind (just how plain and simple our conscious mind is) and the colour represents the movement of the unconscious mind (in comparison to the unconscious mind - colour theme throughout assessment). once again, we are not exactly exposed to the entirety, and each fragmented piece of information is what creates the obscurity and abstraction of this artwork. Each fragmented piece of information whig is contracted from the unconscious mind creates confusion to the conscious mind, and this is also what I am attempting to portray throughout this piece. 

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PROCESS OF FINAL WORK - UNCONSCIOUS MOVEMENTS CREATE AN ARTWORK

In the process of creating this artwork - I have placed a plain bed sheet underneath tarp onto a mattress. I have then painted my cousins back arms and legs and front and asked him to sleep for around 3 hours - 12pm to 3am. I had then woken him up as the paint had dried. An explanation of the actual artwork will be explained in another tumblr post.

WHY HAVE I USED COLOURED PAINT?

I have used colour to represent the power of the unconscious mind. Colour has been used in order to create a strong contrast between the two minds.

WHY HAVE I USED A PLAIN WHITE BED SHEET?

I have used a plain white bed sheet in order to  portray just how simplistic the conscious mind is in comparison to the unconscious mind.

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PROCESS OF FINAL ARTWORK - FRAGMENTED INFORMATION

In the process of making this artwork, I have hung a plain pillow slip on the close line - along with tarp in the background. I have then splatted the pillow with small bits of colourful paint - drip painting inspired by Jackson Pollocks unconscious drip dry paintings. The concept and meaning behind this simple art work will be explained in the final post of this artwork on Tumblr.

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FINAL ARTWORK - FRAGMENTED INFORMATION

not finished.

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FINAL ARTWORK - CONFUSED FRAGMENTED INFORMATION FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND

not finished.

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This is an audio of White Noise - The audible unconscious:

WHITE NOISE:

In signal processing, ‘white noise’ is a random signal with a constant power spectral density. The term is used, with this or similar meanings, in many scientific and technical disciplines, including physics, acoustic engineering, telecommunications, statistical forecasting, and many more.

White Noise is uncorrelated random variables with zero mean and finite variance.

Depending on the context, one may also require that the samples be independent and have the same probability distribution. In particular - if each sample has a normal distribution with zero mean - the signal is said to be Gaustien White Noise.

An infinite bandwidth White - Noise signal is purely theoretical construction. The bandwidth of white-noise is limited in practice by the mechanism of noise generation, by transmission Medium and by finite observation capabilities.

Thus a random signal is considered “White Noise” if it is observed to have a flat spectrum over the range of frequencies that is relevant tot he context.

The term White Noise is sometimes used in context of phylogenetically based statistical  methods to refer to  lack of phylogenetic pattern in comparative data. 

It is sometimes used in non-technical contexts, in a metaphoric sense of “random talk without meaningful content”.

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This audio is in relation to Leibniz’s Theory earlier on during these Tumblr posts.

White Noise.

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EXPERIMENT - SLEEP TALKING NO.3

I recorded my cousin sleep talking while in deep sleep when the unconscious mind is at its peak - the most powerful. 

RESULTS

The sleepwalking did not make much sense at all. this just proves just how disjointed and random the information contracted from the unconscious mind while sleeping is. It created confusion and I was unable to make out the words or what was happening in his dream.

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SLEEP TALKING NO.2 - EXPERIMENT

This is where the most sleep talking was spoken. Once again what was begin said did not make sense.

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Also known as the Rorschach test

Its a method of psychological evaluation.

Psychologists use this test to examine the personality characteristics and emotional functioning of their patients.

The Rorschach is currently the second most commonly used test in forensic assessment.

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"State-dependent psychiatric phenomena on the Rorschach: two case studies of acutely unstable suicidal mental status."

Two inpatient case studies are presented illustrating the clinical utility of the Rorschach to display and evaluate acute state-dependent psychiatric phenomena. The patients interviewed experienced severely acute, intrusive, ego-alien suicidal ideation. Comparison of test and retest data indicates correspondence between symptoms and test signs. Data suggest that Rorschach responses, given with serious and perhaps ominous affect involving inanimate movement, morbid content directly imputable to suicidal themes, and some co-occurrence of morbid content and inanimate movement, were closely associated with acutely unstable suicidal mental status and display remission coincident with clinical improvement. These efficiently available Rorschach data may be of value in substantiating acute mental status.

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“‘Meaning’ has to do with coherence and with systematic relations to other variables, and in that regard dreams do have meaning. Furthermore, they are very “revealing” of what is on our minds. We have shown that 75 to 100 dreams from a person give us a very good psychological portrait of that...