Consciousness and sleep

Tononi, Giulio; Boly, Melanie; Cirelli, Chiara

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2024.04.011

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“…Finally, the study of dreaming and dreamless sleep is regarded as a fundamental experimental model in the search for the functional bases of human consciousness. Indeed, as compared to task-based protocols exploring wakefulness conscious experiences, the study of dreams is naturally less influenced by confounding effects such as changes in attention, stimulus and task processing, task performance, and response preparation [6], [7].…”

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The individual determinants of morning dream recall

Elce,

Bergamo,

Bontempi

et al. 2024

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Evidence suggests that (almost) everyone dreams during their sleep and may actually do so for a large part of the night. Yet, dream recall shows large interindividual variability. Understanding the factors that influence dream recall is crucial for advancing our knowledge regarding dreams' origin, significance, and functions. Here, we tackled this issue by prospectively collecting dream reports along with demographic information and psychometric, cognitive, actigraphic, and electroencephalographic measures in 204 healthy adults (18-70 y, 113 females). We found that attitude towards dreaming, proneness to mind wandering, and sleep patterns are associated with the probability of reporting a dream upon morning awakening. The likelihood of recalling dream content was predicted by age and vulnerability to interference. Moreover, dream recall appeared to be influenced by night-by-night changes in sleep patterns and showed seasonal fluctuations. Our results provide an account for previous observations regarding inter- and intra-individual variability in morning dream recall.

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confidence: 99%