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Finding the Stuff that Dreams are Made Of

Author(s) -

Robert Stickgold

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1100/tsw.2001.38

Subject(s) - dream , sleep (system call) , scientific discovery , computer science , field (mathematics) , psychoanalysis , data science , psychology , cognitive science , neuroscience , mathematics , pure mathematics , operating system

The scientific study of dreams has had a long but tortured history. While the discovery of REM sleep in 1953 and its strong correlation with dreaming led to a renewed hope that the study of dreaming could be moved to a solidly scientific and physiological base, such studies have provided only mixed success. In 1977, Hobson and McCarley proposed the activation-synthesis model for dream construction based on the physiological features of REM sleep, but since then the field has shown surprisingly little progress.

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