Exploring the brain bases of dreaming. Commentary on: “Beyond the neuropsychology of dreaming: insights into the neural basis of dreaming with new techniques of sleep recording and analysis.” Sleep Medicine Reviews

Although it has been known since soon after the discovery of REM sleep that dreams can occur in all stages of sleep [1, 2], it is clear that REM sleep represents the sleep state most conducive to sensorily vivid, motoric and emotionally salient dreams with the most elaborated narrative structures [3]. The first PET studies of REM sleep from the late 1990s [4-8] provided essential background for speculation as to the brain bases for the unique features of the REM-sleep dream experience in comparison to waking consciousness.
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