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 …

Dream is a state of consciousness characterized by internally-generated sensory, cognitive
and emotional experiences occurring during sleep. Dream reports tend to be particularly …

During a single lifetime a person devotes at least 50,000 hours to dreaming. Despite
intensive study, our understanding has been obscured by psychoanalytic theories that see …

Dreaming is still a mystery of human cognition, although it has been studied experimentally
for more than a century. Experimental psychology first investigated dream content and …

The studies reported in the following articles are aimed at providing a comprehensive,
detailed, and quantitative picture of cognition in human dreaming. Our main premises are …

Discoveries in three distinct areas of dream research make it possible to suggest the
outlines of a new neurocognitive theory of dreaming. The first relevant findings come from …

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 …

What is dreaming? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? In
this fascinating book, Harvard researcher Allan Hobson offers an intriguing look at our …

Research in the second half of the twentieth century may finally have succeeded in
constraining the boundaries of reasonable discussion about dreams and dreaming. Largely …

Dreaming is a universal human mental state characterized by hallucinatory imagery
congruent with a confabulated, temporally ordered, storylike experience. As in waking …