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Papez dreams: Mechanism and phenomenology of dreaming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

E. E. Krieckhaus
E. E. Krieckhaus
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003 krieck@worldnet.att.net
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Abstract

I agree with Revonsuo that dreaming, particularly about risky scenes, has a great selective advantage. Although the paleoamygdala system generally facilitates stress and alarm, the system which inhibits stress and alarm, initiates bold actions, and mediates learning in risky scenes is the arche, hippocampal system (Papez circuit). Because all thalamic nuclei are inhibited during sleep except arche, Papez probably also dreams in risky scenes.

[Revonsuo]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 961 - 962
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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