What about dreams? State of the art and open questions

S Scarpelli, V Alfonsi, M Gorgoni… - Journal of Sleep …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Several studies have tried to identify the neurobiological bases of dream experiences,
nevertheless some questions are still at the centre of the debate. Here, we summarise the …

Beyond the neuropsychology of dreaming: insights into the neural basis of dreaming with new techniques of sleep recording and analysis

C Cipolli, M Ferrara, L De Gennaro, G Plazzi - Sleep medicine reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent advances in electrophysiological [eg, surface high-density electroencephalographic
(hd-EEG) and intracranial recordings], video-polysomnography (video-PSG), transcranial …

Does COVID-19 impact the frequency of threatening events in dreams? An exploration of pandemic dreaming in light of contemporary dream theories

J Wang, SE Zemmelman, D Hong, X Feng… - Consciousness and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ninety-one dreams collected during the Covid-19 pandemic (the epidemic-situation sample)
were compared with ninety-one dreams collected before the start of the epidemic (the non …

Arousal in nocturnal consciousness: how dream-and sleep-experiences may inform us of poor sleep quality, stress, and psychopathology

N Soffer-Dudek - Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The term “sleep experiences,” coined by Watson, denotes an array of unusual nocturnal
consciousness phenomena; for example, nightmares, vivid or recurrent dreams, hypnagogic …

Such stuff as dreams are made on: Dream language, LIWC norms, and personality correlates.

RC Hawkins II, RL Boyd - Dreaming, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
We describe the language features of dream narratives from 3 large samples of normal
persons using Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC), a computer text analysis program …

The endocannabinoid system modulating levels of consciousness, emotions and likely dream contents

E Murillo-Rodriguez… - CNS & Neurological …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Background & Objective: Cannabinoids are derivatives that are either compounds occurring
naturally in the plant, Cannabis sativa or synthetic analogs of these molecules. The first and …

Bizarreness of lucid and non-lucid dream: effects of metacognition

C Yu, H Shen - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Dreams are usually characterized by primary consciousness, bizarreness and cognitive
deficits, lacking metacognition. However, lucid dreaming (LD) is a type of consciousness …

[HTML][HTML] Imagetic and affective measures of memory reverberation diverge at sleep onset in association with theta rhythm

NB Mota, E Soares, E Altszyler, I Sánchez-Gendriz… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
The 'day residue'-the presence of waking memories into dreams-is a century-old concept
that remains controversial in neuroscience. Even at the psychological level, it remains …

Whose sexual dream experiences are more intense? An exploratory study on the relationship between personality traits and sexual dreams.

Y Gan, R Wang, X Wang, J Li, Y Chen, J Chen, H Fan - Dreaming, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Sexual dreams reflect individuals' attitudes toward sex, the personal significance of sex,
and/or sexual issues in their waking life. Gaining insight into the factors associated with the …

Spotlight on dream recall: the ages of dreams

A Mangiaruga, S Scarpelli, C Bartolacci… - Nature and science of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Brain and sleep maturation covary across different stages of life. At the same time, dream
generation and dream recall are intrinsically dependent on the development of neural …