Following a set of studies concerning the intrinsic electrophysiology of mammalian central
neurons in relation to global brain function, we reach the following conclusions:(i) the main …

The neuroanatomical substrates controlling and regulating sleeping and waking, and thus
consciousness, are located in the brain stem. Most crucial for bringing the brain into a state …

Dreaming has fascinated and mystified humankind for ages: the bizarre and evanescent
qualities of dreams have invited boundless speculation about their origin, meaning and …

This article explores the notion that the brain is genetically endowed with an innate virtual
reality generator that–through experience-dependent plasticity–becomes a generative or …

Why do we spend so much time sleeping? What are the neural and chemical mechanisms
that produce this state? What makes us dream? These are some of the central issues that …

Consciousness is a multifaceted concept; its different aspects vary across species, vigilance
states, or health conditions. While basal aspects of consciousness like perceptions and …

Dreams are a remarkable experiment in psychology and neuroscience, conducted every
night in every sleeping person. They show that the human brain, disconnected from the …

In this paper, we address the different ways in which dream research can contribute to
interdisciplinary consciousness research. As a second global state of consciousness aside …

D IJo R at home, it was often 11 am, the time of the peak occurrence of REM in sleep. All that
summer, I was so exhausted that I slept on top of the covers with the window shades up …

Building on the content, developmental, and neurological evidence that there are numerous
parallels between waking cognition and dreaming, this article argues that the likely neural …