mentation
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noun
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Origin of mentation
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Most broadly, Neubauer said, dreams are a type of mentation, or mental activity, that occurs when people are asleep and generally consists of vivid, hallucinatory visual content that is often bizarre or has irregular narratives.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
Scientists don’t actually know why humans experience sleep mentation, a fancy name for dreaming.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2021
The claim is thus that the dynamics of all inanimate matter in the universe correspond to transpersonal mentation, just as an individual’s brain activity—which is also made of matter—corresponds to personal mentation.
From Scientific American ● May 29, 2018
The quietly efficient officer became the eloquent apostle of air power, for war and peace, voicing his creed and its docu mentation in eager New England ac cents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let us then listen to the report of the Intellect, as well as of the higher fields of mentation.
From A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga by William Walker Atkinson
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