Newly encoded memory traces are spontaneously reactivated during sleep. Since their
discovery in the 1990s, these memory reactivations have been discussed as a potential …

Sleep problems are extremely common in industrialized countries and the possibility that
diet might be used to improve sleep has been considered. The topic has been reviewed …

The phenomenon of dreaming about the laboratory when participating in a sleep study is
common. The content of such dreams draws upon episodic memory fragments of the …

Memories of waking-life events are incorporated into dreams, but their incorporation is not
uniform across a night of sleep. This study aimed to elucidate ways in which such memory …

Memories of the past help us adaptively respond to similar situations in the future. Originally
described by Schacter & Addis in 2007, the “constructive episodic simulation” hypothesis …

Dreams are often viewed as fascinating but irrelevant mental epihenomena of the sleeping
mind with questionable functional relevance. Despite long hours of oneiric activity, and high …

Dream's emotions could exert a major role in desensitizing negative emotions. Studying
emotional dynamics (how emotions fluctuate across time) during rapid eye movement (REM) …

The understanding of biological functions of sleep has improved recently, including an
understanding of the deep evolutionary roots of sleep among animals. However, dreaming …

Empirical investigations that search for a link between dreaming and sleep-dependent
memory consolidation have focused on testing for an association between dreaming of what …

Through the dreams of a transcultural Chamorro I call Neno dreamed during the COVID-19
pandemic, this article finds three kinds of imagery in narratively complex dreams. Neno's …