This chapter reviews the current state of knowledge and opinion concerning the psychophysiological study of dreams, dreaming, and dreamers. This can be done simply and briefly. There is an emerging consensus that the scientific study of dreams has not lived up to the potential that motivated much of the research following the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in 1953. Mental activity...
This research examined the relationship between cortical activation, defined by electroencephalographic (EEG) measures, and the ability to recall dreams following awakenings from Stage 2 sleep. Period-analyzed EEG data from 40 subjects were examined for the preawakening, postawakening, and preawakening-to-postawakening time intervals. Recall differed from nonrecall at the postawakening and...