What's the difference between oneirism and reverie?

Oneirism


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In one patient, the auditory hallucinosis was followed by a period of visual hallucinations and oneiric delusions.
  • (2) The clinical picture of a tumour involving the amygdaloid nucleus was characterized over a period of 6 years by generalised epileptic fits, then a state of agitated delirium with oneirism evolving during 2 months and leading finally to pulmonary embolism.
  • (3) It has been found that the main direction of the therapeutic pathomorphosis in the studied group is the appearance in the structure of attacks of the alternately changing main forms of alcoholic psychoses-delirium, verbal hallucinosis, and paranoid, as well as an increase in the number of patients with consciousness disturbances of delirious or delirious-oneiric type by the end of the attack.
  • (4) The relation between oneiric behavior and rapid eye movements (REMs) in paradoxical sleep (PS) without muscle atonia was analyzed in cats.
  • (5) The constituents of the syndrome distinguished (orientation disturbances, theatrical effectiveness of hallucinations with fantastic plot, participation of the patient in the capacity of an active character in the play, episodes of relatively short duration, their relation to the sleep-consciousness cycle, and so forth) permit one to specify it as oneiric.
  • (6) Over the period of follow-up (4-8 years) the author analyzed 23 affective-oneiric and 50 affective-delirious attacks of schizophrenia and traced the history of patients at the age of 18-23 years.
  • (7) Nocturnal fears with a psychomotor excitement, illusions, hallucinations, and figurative delirium in the structure of dream (oneiric) derangement of consciousness were dominant in the disease picture.
  • (8) In 8 of the 12 patients, delirious or oneiric behavior appeared during, or soon after, the episodes of stage 1-REM.
  • (9) Muscle atonia disappeared during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, permitting movements and expression of feelings probably associated with REM sleep-related oneiric activity.
  • (10) These events are commonly regarded as physiological correlates of oneiric behavior.
  • (11) The latter finding is tentatively interpreted as due to a more direct access to aspects of oneiric material structured in the left hemisphere by right-handers, whose language centers are located in the same hemisphere.
  • (12) Their experience of intensive care and their psychosensorial problems were as follows: temperospatial disorientation, perturbation of the sense of posture, hallucinations which could go as far as oneiric delirium, anguish and symptoms of depression.
  • (13) We dream workers of the late twentieth century should therefore fortify ourselves with knowledge of the oneiric past as one important way to enhance our dream work in the twenty-first century.

Reverie


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Revery

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe he’s my dark triad bad-boy reverie, if my triad includes “opposing political views” as one unsavory but compelling trait.
  • (2) After Theresa May stunned the country out of its Easter reverie with her announcement on Tuesday , many wondered just how this famously cautious politician had chosen such a dramatic course.
  • (3) The narrator interrupts her reverie to provide a calculation of how long a 6ft falling body would take to cross a window space 8ft tall.
  • (4) It was a good one to get.” It got much worse for Arsenal as they started the second half as if in a distant reverie.
  • (5) Findings reveal that for this age group, health is an abiding vitality emanating through moments of rhapsodic reverie in generating fulfillment.
  • (6) Nitrous oxide produced a variety of subjective effects, including some that are characteristic of psychedelic drugs, such as happy, euphoric mood changes, changes in body awareness and image, alterations of time perception, and experiences of a dreamy, detached reverie state.
  • (7) It will send everyone of a certain age who might otherwise have engaged their brains on a reverie for times past, when life was simpler, sustainability nutters played nicely with Tories and 35-year-olds acted their age, not their (UK) shoe size?
  • (8) Photograph: Michael Gibson "So, anyway," Farrell whispers, breaking my reverie, "things have changed.
  • (9) But then you’re rudely awaken out of your kitsch reverie by remembering quite what will be left, and at what cost it all came.
  • (10) Sounded pretty good to me, but Abts's introspective, complex little paintings have a strange and mesmerising sense of absorption and contemplative reverie.
  • (11) But in CSKA's case, maybe it should be 'You are are at your most vulnerabe just after you score, and then again just after you concede'," reckons Sam Abrahams, whose name I misread as Sam Adams, sending me into a brief but powerful reverie about beer.
  • (12) Reverie, dreams, visions, the dark woods of somnolent confusion – all these are beautifully evoked in Dante's tour from hell to heaven, The Divine Comedy .
  • (13) As Sebald unfolds the story of Rousseau's tribulations ("a dozen years filled with fear and panic"), the essay seems, in its placeless antiquity, like one of Rousseau's own Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and suddenly it's not Rousseau's obsessive inability to stop thinking that is the theme, but Sebald's own obsessive inability ("the thoughts constantly brewing in his head like storm clouds").
  • (14) Ostensibly a straightforward account of Rousseau's exiled wanderings, it begins with his first glimpse, in 1965, of the Ile Saint Pierre in Switzerland, where Rousseau spent the first period of his stateless exile, and where he claimed – in his Reveries of a Solitary Walker – that he was happier than he had been anywhere else.
  • (15) In Heart, he reveals that in the suspended animation of heart transplant surgery – the closest to death one can come – his reverie consisted not of any moral reckoning or even meditation on the life he'd lived, but a dream about living "in Italy, north of Rome, about 40 or 50 miles north of Rome, a nice little village, drinking good Italian wine and eating good Italian food.
  • (16) The reverie, an apparently random series of events occurring in the analyst's consciousness when his attention is evenly suspended, is examined through the expansion of one of its elements, a single word-association.
  • (17) Crime dramas,” she says, with a nonchalant shrug, “are just what people want.” She says how much she loved Juliet Bravo and we both disappear into a feminist nostalgia reverie.
  • (18) He needs little prompting to go off into a reverie about having the biggest actors, politicians and celebrities of the age opposite him on successive nights, regularly making headlines.
  • (19) In Mr Palomar, by Italo Calvino, the writer's alter ego stands in line in Parisian food shops gazing at cheese and jars of goose fat, writing in his notebook while drifting so far into reverie that the serving staff have to rouse him when it is his turn: "Monsieur!
  • (20) Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote , probably my favourite film of the festival.

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