October 20, 2026
María Laura Gorosito, Matías Rodolfo Pretel, Nerea L Herrero et al.
preprint
Dreams often incorporate recent waking experiences, but whether the relationship between dream content and subsequent memory depends on the state of the memory before sleep remains unclear. In this exploratory study, fifteen participants learned novel word-definition-image associations across a four-day home-based protocol. Dream reports were collected after serial awakenings following initial...
Scientific Reports
November 9, 2023
Francisco T Gallo, Ignacio Spiousas, Nerea L Herrero et al.
5 citations
Dreaming is a complex phenomenon that occurs during sleep, involving various conscious dream experiences. Lucid dreams (LDs) involve heightened awareness within the dream environment, while out-of-body experiences (OBEs) involve the sensation of being outside one's physical body. OBEs occur during sleep paralysis (SP), where voluntary movements are inhibited during sleep/wake transitions while...
PsyArXiv
March 14, 2023
Francisco T Gallo, Ignacio Spiousas, Nerea L Herrero et al.
preprint
In this study, we examine the structural properties of dream reports that include non-lucid, lucid dreams (LDs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). We collected a set of 916 dream reports (728 non-lucid dreams, 122 LDs, 68 OBEs) obtained from 60 participants that kept a dream journal for two months. The collected reports were transformed into directed graphs, where each different word plays the...
PsyArXiv
March 13, 2023
Francisco T Gallo, Nerea L Herrero, Antonela Tommasel et al.
preprint
Lucid dreams (LDs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are phenomena characterized by the return of higher cognitive abilities during sleep, including reflective self-awareness and abstract thought. Given the similarities in reflective self-awareness between LDs and OBEs, some authors consider them variations of the same phenomenon. This study aimed to compare the differences in content between...