A Case of Pathological Day Dreaming

Anesthetic dreaming, anesthesia awareness and patient satisfaction after deep sedation with propofol target controlled infusion: A prospective cohort study of patients undergoing day case breast surgery

BACKGROUND Anesthetic dreaming and anesthesia awareness are well distinct phenomena. Although the incidence of intraoperative awareness is more common among patients who reported a dream after surgery, the exact correlation between the two phenomena remains an unsolved rebus. The main purpose of this study was to investigate anesthetic dreaming, anesthesia awareness and psychological consequenc...

Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: food and diet as instigators of bizarre and disturbing dreams

In the early 1900s, the Dream of the Rarebit Fiend comic strip conveyed how the spicy cheese dish Welsh rarebit leads to bizarre and disturbing dreams. Today, the perception that foods disturb dreaming persists. But apart from case studies, some exploratory surveys, and a few lab studies on how hunger affects dreaming, there is little empirical evidence addressing this topic. The present study ...

Neurobiology and clinical implications of lucid dreaming.

Several lines of evidence converge to the idea that rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) is a good model to foster our understanding of psychosis. Both REMS and psychosis course with internally generated perceptions and lack of rational judgment, which is attributed to a hyperlimbic activity along with hypofrontality. Interestingly, some individuals can become aware of dreaming during REMS, a partic...

CLINICAL REVIEW Chronobiological features of dream production

87-0792/$ see front matter q 200 i:10.1016/j.smrv.2004.06.005 * Present address: Dream and Night cré-Coeur, 5400, boul. Gouin Ouest, nada. Tel.: C1-514-338-2693; fax: E-mail address: tore.nielsen@umon Summary A review of the scientific literature clarifies several chronobiological features of dreaming. The literature supports the conclusions that dreaming ‘intensity’ and, to a lesser extent dre...

‘Dreaming Sex with Demons’: The Pathological Interpretations in Ancient Chinese Medicine