Abstract Nightmare disorder is historically conceptualised as a rapid eye movement (REM) sleep parasomnia, but evidence also points to altered non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep physiology. Here, in a retrospective case-control study, we analysed overnight polysomnography from 26 adults with nightmare disorder and 32 controls using a harmonised event-based EEG pipeline. Nightmare disorder...
Abstract Background: Visual input is thought to influence spatial cognition and language. While blind individuals often rely on egocentric spatial representations, it remains unclear whether and how visual deprivation affects dream-related language. This study applied speech graph analysis (SGA) to investigate linguistic differences in dream reports from congenitally blind (CB), late blind...