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Sleep, not REM sleep, is the royal road to dreams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Alexander A. Borbély  and
Lutz Wittmann
Alexander A. Borbély
Affiliation:
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerlandborbely@pharma.unizh.ch www.unizh.ch/phar/sleep
Lutz Wittmann
Affiliation:
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerlandborbely@pharma.unizh.ch www.unizh.ch/phar/sleep
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Abstract

The advent of functional imaging has reinforced the attempts to define dreaming as a sleep state-dependent phenomenon. PET scans revealed major differences between nonREM sleep and REM sleep. However, because dreaming occurs throughout sleep, the common features of the two sleep states, rather than the differences, could help define the prerequisite for the occurrence of dreams.

[Hobson et al.; Nielsen; Solms; Revonsuo; Vertes & Eastman]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 911 - 912
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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