Allan J Cheyne

What Is the Link Between Hallucinations, Dreams, and Hypnagogic-Hypnopompic Experiences?

Schizophrenia Bulletin June 29, 2016 Flavie Waters, Jan Dirk Blom, Thien Thanh Dang‐Vu et al.

By definition, hallucinations occur only in the full waking state. Yet similarities to sleep-related experiences such as hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations, dreams and parasomnias, have been noted since antiquity. These observations have prompted researchers to suggest a common aetiology for these phenomena based on the neurobiology of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. With our recent...