Intrinsic dreams are not produced without REM sleep mechanisms: evidence through elicitation of sleep onset REM periods
Journal of Sleep Research March 4, 2001 Tomoka Takeuchi, Akio Miyasita, Maki Inugami et al.
The hypothesis that there is a strict relationship between dreams and a specific rapid eye movement (REM) sleep mechanism is controversial. Many researchers have recently denied this relationship, yet none of their studies have simultaneously controlled both sleep length and depth prior to non‐REM (NREM) and REM sleep awakenings, due to the natural rigid order of the NREM–REM sleep cycle. The...