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Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology
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Dreams are a most remarkable experiment in psychology and neuroscience, conducted every night in every sleeping person. They show that our brain, disconnected from the environment, can generate by itself an entire world of conscious experiences. Content analysis and developmental studies have furthered our understanding of dream phenomenology. In parallel, brain lesion studies, functional imaging, and neurophysiology have advanced our knowledge of the neural basis of dreaming. It is now possible to start integrating these two strands of research in order to address some fundamental questions that dreams pose for cognitive neuroscience: how conscious experiences in sleep relate to underlying brain activity; why the dreamer is largely disconnected from the environment; and whether dreaming is more closely related to mental imagery or to perception.
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“An intriguing possibility concerns the putative antagonism between externally oriented cortical networks and internally oriented, default-mode networks[92, 93].”
§ Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology > Why is the dreamer disconnected from the environment?
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The Introduction distinguishes an externally driven extrinsic system from an intrinsic system associated with internally driven functions, and the default-mode comparison reports that parts of the intrinsic system deactivate during visual stimulation. But the same comparison explicitly says this study did not observe a negative correlation between the two systems. The paper therefore supports a possible tension between them, not a demonstrated antagonistic relationship. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“Neuromodulatory activity in cataplectic dogs is largely similar to that in REM sleep except that levels of histamine are high, much like during wakefulness[105]. It thus seems that levels of histamine are correlated with our ability to incorporate sensory stimuli into conscious experience.”
§ Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology > Why is the dreamer disconnected from the environment?
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“In fact, during dreaming there is a prominent reduction of voluntary control of action and thought. We cannot pursue goals, and have no control over the dream’s content.”
§ Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology > Phenomenology of dreams and their relation to brain activity > Similarities between dreaming and waking
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“Dreams are highly visual, in full color, rich in shapes, full of movement, and incorporate typical wakefulness categories such as people, faces, places, objects, and animals[3].”
§ Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology > Phenomenology of dreams and their relation to brain activity > Similarities between dreaming and waking
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“Moreover, stimuli not only fail to elicit a behavioral response, but also largely fail to be incorporated in the content of the dream[8, 84–86] (though some stimuli, such as a spray of water, pressure on the limbs, and meaningful words have a slightly higher chance of incorporation[84, 85]).”
§ Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology > Why is the dreamer disconnected from the environment?
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“From lesion studies (Box 3) we know that dreaming requires an intact temporo-parieto-occipital junction[22, 23] and lesions in this region also affect mental imagery in wakefulness[109].”
§ Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology > Are dreams more like perception or imagination?
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“Overall, lesion studies indicate that dreaming depends on specific forebrain regions rather than on the brainstem REM sleep generator[22, 128, 129].”
§ Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology > Phenomenology of dreams and their relation to brain activity > Similarities between dreaming and waking
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“This feature is known as “high arousal threshold”, and it persists in REM sleep despite its wake-like low-voltage EEG[83].”
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“Indeed, 10–30% of all NREM sleep reports are indistinguishable by any criteria from those obtained from REM sleep[64, 65].”
§ Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology > What determines the level of consciousness during sleep?
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“reports of conscious experiences in NREM sleep ranged between 23% and 74%[9].”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [9] Rechtschaffen, 1973, The psychophysiology of mental activity during sleep source
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“The modification of memory performance across early childhood, due in the firsts ages to the so-called infantile amnesia72–74 and subsequently to the development of cognitive functions,67 parallel the improvement of dream recall rates in children.”
From Spotlight on dream recall: the ages of dreams (2018) · cites this paper as [73]
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“infantile amnesia and confabulatory reports in infancy are the main reasons why reliable studies in this age range cannot be carried out.73,74”
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“the regions implicated in emotional processes during wakefulness are also responsible for the neurophysiological background of REM sleep that can explain some qualitative features of DE”
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“Considering that mental imagery shares the same neuronal substrates as dreaming [2,73]”
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“Although sleep is often associated with “rest,” the brain remains highly active, with neuronal activity persisting but exhibiting frequency patterns distinct from those observed during wakefulness23,24.”
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“the processes that regulate dreaming and emotional salience in sleep mentation share similar neural substrates of those controlling emotions during wakefulness”
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“the neural activation of emotional-limbic (Nir and Tononi, 2010) and reward systems (Perogamvros and Schwartz, 2012) during REM-DE contributes to the offline reprocessing of emotions and associative learning”
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“At the same time, dream content analysis reveals a full development and adult-like content of dream experience from 9 years of age,4,89,73,91 coherent with mature mental imagery skills.73,92”
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“A first real development in dream content is reached at the age of 7 years, when the child starts to represent himself in the dream, with higher emotional content, active participation, and narrative structure, in dreams overall more frequent and longer.4,73,89,91”
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“Longer reports, but with still low recall rate, are reached between ages 5 and 7 years.”
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“Specifically, dream content at the age of 2–5 years shows a general absence of people, object, and events, being usually a static report of single characters.”
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“The ages in which children begin to report some dream content seem to parallel their cognitive maturation.73”
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“the distribution of brain activity in REM sleep is not homogenous”
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“Strikingly, these experiences usually evoke the sensation of being awake, since similar features as in our external sensorium (characters, objects, colors, places, and sounds) are incorporated in a realistic manner [2].”
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“Second, during sleep subjects are largely disconnected from the environment on both the input and output side, meaning that in the majority of cases, sensory stimuli do not influence the content of experience 2 .”
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“In other words, mind wandering and dreaming both refers to a peculiar internal cognition, so it is plausible that the neural substrate for sleep mentation shares some brain regions with the network for mind wandering (i.e., DMN; Fosse and Domhoff, 2007; Ioannides et al., 2009; Nir and Tononi, 2010).”
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“Some empirical evidence showed that children start at 4 years of age to discern dream from reality and reach a complete comprehension of this difference at the age of 9 years, when cognitive abilities are adequately matured.4,69,73,89,90”
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“Interestingly, another issue in facing dream research in infancy is the achievement of the ability to discern a dream from reality, whose age definition is still controversial.4,69,73,89,90”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nir, Y., & Tononi, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-02
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 88-100
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2814941
- OpenAlex
- W2081767153
- Cited by
- 595
- References
- 176
- Citations by year
- 2026: 42 · 2025: 64 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 60 · 2019: 51 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 36 · 2014: 24 · 2013: 31 · 2012: 24
- FWCI
- 1.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5p20mh077967-04, DP1OD000579)
- National Institute of Mental Health (P20MH-077967)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Keywords
- dreams, phenomenology of dreams, brain lesions, functional imaging, mental imagery, perception, sleep
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Consciousness, Dreams, Emotions, Environment, Humans, Imagination, Neurophysiology, Perception, Psychophysiology
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