Relationship Between Epilepsy and Dreaming: Current Knowledge, Hypotheses, and Perspectives.
Frontiers in Neuroscience 2021 Aurélien De la Chapelle, Birgit Frauscher, Amandine Valomon et al.
The interactions between epilepsy and sleep are numerous and the impact of epilepsy on cognition is well documented. Epilepsy is therefore likely to influence dreaming as one sleep-related cognitive activity. The frequency of dream recall is indeed decreased in patients with epilepsy, especially in those with primary generalized seizures. The content of dreams is also disturbed in epilepsy...