Dreams
Research News and Information

Saturday, November 21, 2009

REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness.

29 Sep 2009 Dreaming has fascinated and mystified humankind for ages: the bizarre and evanescent qualities of dreams have invited boundless speculation about their origin, meaning and purpose. For most of the twentieth century, scientific dream theories were ... Read more...

Does the circadian modulation of dream recall modify with age?

30 Aug 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVES: The ultradian NREM-REM sleep cycle and the circadian modulation of REM sleep sum to generate dreaming. Here we investigated age-related changes in dream recall, number of dreams, and emotional domain characteristics of dreaming ... Read more...

Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming.

30 Aug 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVES: The goal of the study was to seek physiological correlates of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a dissociated state with aspects of waking and dreaming combined in a way so as to suggest a specific alteration in brain physiology ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dreams'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Henry James and the art of the dream. 29 Sep 2009
• REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness. 29 Sep 2009
• Journal club. A geneticist wonders why we need to sleep. 29 Sep 2009
• [Medical art column. Dream-like metamorphosis] 21 Sep 2009
• Does the circadian modulation of dream recall modify with age? 30 Aug 2009
• Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming. 30 Aug 2009
• Preserved memory function during bispectral index-guided anesthesia with sevoflurane for major orthopedic surgery. 30 Aug 2009
• Dreaming and electroencephalographic changes during anesthesia maintained with propofol or desflurane. 30 Aug 2009
• Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide. 30 Jul 2009
• Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex. 30 Jul 2009
• Revisiting Searles's paper "The Patient as a Therapist to the Therapist": the analyst's personal in the interpersonal. 30 Jul 2009
• Freud's Botanical Monograph screen memory revisited. 30 Jul 2009
• The relationship between disturbed dreaming and somatic distress: a prospective investigation. 30 Jul 2009
• The self and dreams during a period of transition. 26 Jul 2009
• In two minds? Is schizophrenia a state 'trapped' between waking and dreaming? 17 Jul 2009
• Early cognitive impairment after sedation for colonoscopy: the effect of adding midazolam and/or fentanyl to propofol. 15 Jul 2009
• Is 'bipolar disorder' the brain's autopoietic response to schizophrenia? 6 Jul 2009
• Secondary traumatic stress in oncology staff. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Dreams'

Definition: A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep which are dissociated from the usual stream of consciousness of the waking state.

Descriptor UI: D004325

Alternative terms: Dreams; Dream; Nightmares; Nightmare;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: F02.463.188.634.309; F02.830.855.268;

Technical Notes: consider also NIGHT TERRORS & PAVOR NOCTURNUS (both see SLEEP DISORDERS)