Sarah Witkowski

Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep.

Current Biology April 12, 2021 Karen R Konkoly, Kristoffer Appel, Emma Chabani et al. 126 citations

Dreams take us to a different reality, a hallucinatory world that feels as real as any waking experience. These often-bizarre episodes are emblematic of human sleep but have yet to be adequately explained. Retrospective dream reports are subject to distortion and forgetting, presenting a fundamental challenge for neuroscientific studies of dreaming. Here we show that individuals who are asleep...