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

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 …

Background Anaesthetic-induced unresponsiveness and non-rapid eye movement (NREM)
sleep share common neural pathways and neurophysiological features. We hypothesised …

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 …

Introduction Dreaming reported after anesthesia remains a poorly understood phenomenon.
At present, there is a hypothesis that dreaming occurs intraoperatively and is related to light …

Mentation reports were collected after spontaneous awakenings from morning naps in 18
healthy participants, and associations between sleep stages duration and complexity of …

Dreaming is a fundamental but not fully understood part of human experience that can shed
light on our thought patterns. Traditional dream analysis practices, while popular and aided …

Background: Clinical case illustrations of patients with an impairment of personality
functioning (IPF) have repeatedly reported that progress during psychotherapy is reflected …

Evidence suggests that dream content, such as dreaming about a learning task, is
associated with improved task performance following sleep. Given links between sleep and …

The function and meaning of dreams continue to fascinate and allude humankind. Despite
the near universal intrigue, the pendulum of public and scientific opinion on dream research …