Dreaming as mind wandering: evidence from functional neuroimaging and first-person content reports.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2013 Kieran C. R. Fox, Savannah Nijeboer, Elizaveta Solomonova et al. 297 citations
Isolated reports have long suggested a similarity in content and thought processes across mind wandering (MW) during waking, and dream mentation during sleep. This overlap has encouraged speculation that both "daydreaming" and dreaming may engage similar brain mechanisms. To explore this possibility, we systematically examined published first-person experiential reports of MW and dreaming and...