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...
Background: The presence of visual imagery in dreams of congenitally blind people has long been a matter of substantial controversy. We set to systematically review body of published work on the presence and nature of oneiric visuo-spatial impressions in congenitally and early blind subjects across different areas of research, from experimental psychology, functional neuroimaging, sensory...