Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself an
illusion? Am I conscious now? Now considered the'last great mystery of science' …

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

This article explores the notion that the brain is genetically endowed with an innate virtual
reality generator that–through experience-dependent plasticity–becomes a generative or …

In this article, we present results from an interdisciplinary research project aimed at
assessing consciousness in dreams. For this purpose, we compared lucid dreams with …

The science of dreaming constitutes a relevant topic in modern-day neuroscientific research
and provides major insights into the study of human consciousness. Linking specific …

This metatheoretical paper develops a list of new research targets by exploring particularly
promising interdisciplinary contact points between empirical dream research and philosophy …

The paper proposes a minimal definition of dreaming in terms of immersive spatiotemporal
hallucination (ISTH) occurring in sleep or during sleep–wake transitions and under the …

This paper approaches the debate whether perceptual consciousness requires cognitive
access from the perspective of dream studies, and investigates what kind of findings could …

Are dreams subjective experiences during sleep? Is it like something to dream, or is it only
like something to remember dreams after awakening? Specifically, can dream reports be …

The widely used guidelines for sleep staging were developed for the visual inspection of
electrophysiological recordings by the human eye. As such, these rules reflect a limited …