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 …

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

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 …

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 …

The percentages of successful dream recall vary depending on whether the participants
were awakened from REM sleep (about 80% recall) or NREM sleep (about 50% recall). The …

A considerable number of studies have shown that sleep facilitates memory consolidation.
For procedural memory, some findings support the association with REM sleep but the …

Sleep following learning benefits memory. One model attributes this effect to the iterative
“reactivation” of memory traces in the sleeping brain, demonstrated in animal models …

Dreams could reflect memory consolidation processes during sleep. The present pilot study
examined whether the incorporation of a film sequence shows a relationship to task …

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 …