Arianna Huffington's new book "The sleep revolution" effectively lays out the public health consequences of sleep loss and then points to a way forward to address this crisis
Mental content of dreams can sometimes perfectly coincide with mental content of overt behavioral acts and that fact can raise thorny legal and philosophical issues.
The dream lag effect, wherein images from daily events appear in dreams 5-7 days later, appears to be restricted to personally significant events only.
Why are some forms of music relatively rare in dreams? Dreams screen out redundant and parasitic forms of information but will process musical phrases that violate expectancies
Recent data on brain activation patterns in REM support the idea that dreaming involves production of vary complex mental simulations...but to what purpose?
Network, graph, and content analyses of dreams consistently demonstrate more accurate information on emotions and thought in dreams than in waking reports.
The continuity hypothesis of dreams has strong empirical support and its supporters are now studying those lements of dreams that are apparently discontinous with waking life
Dissociative symptoms like memory lapses, out of body experiences, and identity confusion, can be due to sleep fragmentation but the good news is that there are effective treatments.
Online sleep and dream communities are beginning to build vast collections of dreams and related sleep data. These communities should establish baseline data formatting conventions to make future collaborative efforts possible and fruitful.
In the ancient world soothsayers preyed upon the innocent and gullible offering them arcane dream interpretations and "healing" metaphors for their dreams. Modern "experts" are little better in this regard.
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