Dreaming—a particular form of consciousness that occurs during sleep—undergoes major
changes in the course of the night. We aimed to outline state-dependent features of …

Consciousness is often said to disappear in deep, dreamless sleep. We argue that this
assumption is oversimplified. Unless dreamless sleep is defined as unconscious from the …

In this article, we present results from an interdisciplinary research project aimed at
assessing consciousness in dreams. For this purpose, we compared lucid dreams with …

Dreaming is often characterized as lacking high-order cognitive (HOC) skills. In two studies,
we test the alternative hypothesis that the dreaming mind is highly similar to the waking …

The science of dreaming constitutes a relevant topic in modern-day neuroscientific research
and provides major insights into the study of human consciousness. Linking specific …

Abstract The Dream Catcher test defines the criteria for a genuine discovery of the neural
constituents of phenomenal consciousness. Passing the test implies that some patterns of …

Evidence of reflective awareness and metacognitive monitoring during REM sleep dreaming
poses a significant challenge to the commonly held view of dream cognition as necessarily …

Reports of white dreams, the feeling of having had a dream experience without being able to
specify this experience any further, make up almost one third of all dream reports, yet this …

Sleep offers a unique opportunity to relate changes in brain activity to changes in
consciousness. Indeed, if it were not for sleep, when consciousness fades in and out on a …

A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience
in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary …