Dream Content in Patients With Sleep Apnea: A Prospective Sleep Laboratory Study.
Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine January 15, 2018 Franziska Di Pauli, Ambra Stefani, Evi Holzknecht et al.
Few studies have addressed dreaming in patients with sleep apnea. We hypothesized that respiratory events and subsequent oxygen desaturation act as an important physiological trigger and may thus influence dream content in patients with a sleep-related breathing disorder. Seventy-six patients (28 women, mean age 54 years, range 20-82) who underwent polysomnography because of suspected sleep...