Since around 2010, important changes occurred in research on the neural bases of dreaming. From the 1960s until the end of the century, most sleep physiologists and some dream researchers continued to adhere to the view that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep was the functional state of the brain concomitant to dreaming, in spite of numerous published findings falsifying that view. At the beginning...
The objective of dream cartography is to map dream content, that is, to develop new visualization methods and adapt existing ones as graphical means for an explorative dream analysis. We aim at modelling (i.e., disentangling), documenting, reuniting, and graphically depicting the dream space and other relevant psychological aspects of dreams in a meaningful but abstracted way. In this article...