Recalling and forgetting dreams: theta and alpha oscillations during sleep predict subsequent dream recall.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience May 4, 2011 Cristina Marzano, Michele Ferrara, Federica Mauro et al.
Under the assumption that dream recall is a peculiar form of declarative memory, we have hypothesized that (1) the encoding of dream contents during sleep should share some electrophysiological mechanisms with the encoding of episodic memories of the awake brain and (2) recalling a dream(s) after awakening from non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep should be...