Dream experience (DE) represents a fascinating condition linked to emotional processes
and the human inner world. Although the overlap between REM sleep and dreaming has …

Wakefulness, non-rapid eye-movement (NREM) and rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep differ
from each other along three dimensions: behavioral, phenomenological, physiological …

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …

Visual imagery during sleep has long been a topic of persistent speculation, but its private
nature has hampered objective analysis. Here we present a neural decoding approach in …

Isolated reports have long suggested a similarity in content and thought processes across
mind wandering (MW) during waking, and dream mentation during sleep. This overlap has …

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

Dreaming can occur in both rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) sleep. We
recently showed that in both REM and NREM sleep, dreaming is associated with local …

The mesolimbic dopaminergic system (ML-DA) allows adapted interactions with the
environment and is therefore of critical significance for the individual's survival. The ML-DA …

Dreams are experiences that occur during sleep, while we are disconnected from the
environment. Thanks to recent progress in neuroimaging techniques, it is now becoming …

Several studies have tried to identify the neurobiological bases of dream experiences,
nevertheless some questions are still at the centre of the debate. Here, we summarise the …