Can dreams reveal insight into our cognitive abilities and aptitudes (ie,“human
intelligence”)? The relationship between dream production and trait-like cognitive abilities is …

The frequent appearance of newly learned information in dreams suggests that dream
content is influenced by memory consolidation. Many studies have tested this hypothesis by …

As testing the functions of dreams directly is not possible, empirical dream research has
focused on three areas providing indirect support for a relationship between dreaming and …

The goal of this paper is to shed new light on the relation between dream recall and dream
experiences by providing a thorough analysis of the process that leads to dream reports …

Dreaming is a universal human behavior that has inspired searches for meaning across
many disciplines including art, psychology, religion, and politics, yet its function remains …

Memories constitute much of the source material for our dreams. Although waking life events
are not faithfully replayed in dreams, dream content arises from recent daily experiences …

The question of a possible link between dream content and memory consolidation remains
open. After a comprehensive review of the literature, we present novel findings from an …

Contributions of specific sleep stages to cognitive processes are increasingly understood.
Non-REM sleep is particularly implicated in episodic memory consolidation, whilst REM …

Collecting dream reports typically requires waking subjects up from their sleep—a method
that has been used to study the relationship between dreams and memory consolidation …

Correlations between memories and dreaming has typically been studied by linking
conscious experiences and dream reports, which has illustrated that dreaming reflects …