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Dreaming and Offline Memory Consolidation
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Converging evidence suggests that dreaming is influenced by the consolidation of memory during sleep. Following encoding, recently formed memory traces are gradually stabilized and reorganized into a more permanent form of long-term storage. Sleep provides an optimal neurophysiological state to facilitate this process, allowing memory networks to be repeatedly reactivated in the absence of new sensory input. The process of memory reactivation and consolidation in the sleeping brain appears to influence conscious experience during sleep, contributing to dream content recalled on awakening. This article outlines several lines of evidence in support of this hypothesis, and responds to some common objections.
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“Despite their realism, dreams, especially from rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, often feature bizarre and creative elements, mostly because they do not simply replay previous experiences [5-7].”
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“Indeed, it is openly admitted that the consolidation hypothesis still views dreams themselves as epiphenomena.54”
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“Perhaps the leading contemporary theory is that dreams somehow involve memory consolidation and storage,53 often via a proposed form of memory replay.54”
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“According to this hypothesis, dreams are not epiphenomena, either in the sense of neutral evolution but also in the sense of not being an expression of some other background process, such as patterns of activity and associated experiences merely brought about by some other processing integrating new memories.54 Rather, the point of dreams is the dreams themselves, because they provide departures a”
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- Wamsley, E. J.
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- Harvard University (US)
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- Wamsley, Erin J.
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- Wamsley, Erin J.
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- Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
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- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (KL2TR000168)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T32HL07901-10, T32HL007901)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH048832, R21MH098171)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- dreams, memory consolidation, sleep, memory reactivation, long-term memory storage, dream recall, memory stabilization
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Consciousness, Dreams, Eye Movements, Humans, Memory, Sleep
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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