Several studies have demonstrated that dream content is related to the waking life of the dreamer. However, the characteristics of the memory sources incorporated into dreams are still unclear. We designed a new protocol to investigate remote memories and memories of trivial experiences, both relatively unexplored in dream content until now. Upon awakening, for 7 days, participants identified t...

PURPOSE To evaluate morning dream recall frequency and content in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS Fifty-two patients with pharmacoresistant TLE submitted to a written dream diary during five consecutive days and continuous video-electroencephalographic (video-EEG) monitoring. A matched control group of 41 healthy subjects completed the same diary at home. The number of rec...

The arrival of the modern computer set in motion a series of lexicographers’ dreams without equal in the history of dictionary making. Achieving the wildest of those electronic-dictionary vistas has the potential to result in reference works beyond all recognition. This potential, alas, remains to be realised. The aim of this article is to analyse the major achievements and future prospects whe...

Utilizing the Global Workspace System of Baars (1988), this paper compares conscious and unconscious processes across waking, nonlucid, and lucid dreams. Sleep psychology can display gross functional dissociation between perceptual and cognitive consciousness. We utilize this observation to develop models of sleep experience and dream generation. These models accommodate Hunt’s (1989) “multipli...

During sleep, humans experience the offline images and sensations that we call dreams, which are typically emotional and lacking in rational judgment of their bizarreness. However, during lucid dreaming (LD), subjects know that they are dreaming, and may control oneiric content. Dreaming and LD features have been studied in North Americans, Europeans and Asians, but not among Brazilians, the la...

The sections that follow are based on, or extracted from, some of the latest research findings related to dreams and dreaming. Much of the following information is from the book DREAM LANGUAGE: Self-Understanding through Imagery and Color by Robert Hoss, MS, with foreword by David Feinstein, PhD. The book includes additional information, along with examples and explanations, of how understandin...