The role of peripheral physiology in the experience of emotion has been debated since the
19th century following the seminal proposal by William James that somatic responses to …

Dream experience (DE) represents a fascinating condition linked to emotional processes
and the human inner world. Although the overlap between REM sleep and dreaming has …

Isolated reports have long suggested a similarity in content and thought processes across
mind wandering (MW) during waking, and dream mentation during sleep. This overlap has …

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

The mesolimbic dopaminergic system (ML-DA) allows adapted interactions with the
environment and is therefore of critical significance for the individual's survival. The ML-DA …

Nightmares occur across a wide range of psychiatric disorders, but outside of PTSD
presentations are infrequently considered a treatment priority. We aimed to assess evidence …

Sleep is divided into two main sleep stages:(1) non-rapid eye movement sleep (non-REMS),
characterized among others by reduced global brain activity; and (2) rapid eye movement …

Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions
are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences. In The Measure of …

In this paper we propose an emotion assimilation function of sleep and dreaming. We offer
explanations both for the mechanisms by which waking-life memories are initially selected …

The continuity hypothesis of dreaming states that waking life is continuous with dreams, but
many of the factors that have been postulated to influence wake–dream continuity have …