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Bizarreness effect in dream recall.

Sleep February 1993 C Cipolli, R Bolzani, C Cornoldi et al.

This study aimed to ascertain a) whether morning reports of dream experience more frequently reproduce bizarre contents of night reports than nonbizarre ones and b) whether this effect depends on the rarity of bizarre contents in the dream or on their richer encoding in memory. Ten subjects were awakened in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep three times per night for 4 nonconsecutive nights and...

Isolated sleep paralysis elicited by sleep interruption.

Sleep June 1, 1992 T Takeuchi, A Miyasita, Y Sasaki et al.

We elicited isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) from normal subjects by a nocturnal sleep interruption schedule. On four experimental nights, 16 subjects had their sleep interrupted for 60 minutes by forced awakening at the time when 40 minutes of nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep had elapsed from the termination of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in the first or third sleep cycle. This schedule...

H-reflex suppression and autonomic activation during lucid REM sleep: a case study.

Sleep August 1, 1989 A Brylowski, Lynne Levitan, Stephen LaBerge

A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory. The subject reported becoming lucid and signaling in 8 of the 18 rapid-eye movement (REM) periods recorded. Ten lucid dream reports were verified by polygraphic examination...

High prevalence of isolated sleep paralysis: kanashibari phenomenon in Japan.

Sleep June 1987 K Fukuda, A Miyasita, M Inugami et al.

In Japan, a set of experiences called kanashibari is considered identical with isolated sleep paralysis. We investigated this phenomenon by means of a questionnaire administered to 635 college students (390 men and 245 women). Of all subjects, about 40% had experienced at least one episode of kanashibari [subjects of K(+)]. Therefore, isolated sleep paralysis is apparently a more common...

Chronic behavioral disorders of human REM sleep: a new category of parasomnia.

Sleep June 1, 1986 Carlos H. Schenck, S R Bundlie, M G Ettinger et al.

Four men, aged 67-72 years, had 4-month to 6-year histories of injuring themselves or their spouses with aggressive behaviors during sleep, often during attempted dream enactment. A 60-year-old woman had disruptive though nonviolent sleep and dream behaviors. Polysomnography did not detect seizures but did document REM sleep pathology with variable loss of chin atonia, extraordinarily increased...

Dream self-reflectiveness as a learned cognitive skill.

Sleep 1986 S Purcell, J Mullington, A Moffitt et al.

This research was directed toward the contradiction sustained by cognitive dream psychology, which on the one hand regards dreaming as higher symbolic activity and, on the other, sees its organizational and functional characteristics as derivative and/or inferior to those of waking consciousness. Study 1 evaluates the degree of self-reflective meta-cognition in dreams from different sleep...

Dream recall after sleep interruption in brain-injured patients.

Sleep December 1985 L Murri, R Massetani, G Siciliano et al.

Nineteen patients with unilateral hemispheric lesions of a vascular or neoplastic nature were studied. Before the onset of disease, these patients had experienced dream recall at least once a week. During hospitalization their dream recall was investigated using a morning diary for 10 consecutive days. During this period, seven patients reported having dreamed, whereas 12 had no dream recall....

Sleep, dreaming, and adaptation to a stressful intellectual activity.

Sleep 1985 D Koulack, F Prevost, J De Koninck

Sixteen male subjects slept in the laboratory for 4 consecutive nights. Night 1 was an adaptation night and night 2 was a baseline night of uninterrupted sleep. On nights 3 and 4 subjects were asked to complete "intelligence" tests prior to sleep. One half of the subjects attempted to complete difficult versions of "intelligence" tests without knowing that they could not be completed in te time...

Evidence for a directional correspondence between eye movements and dream imagery in REM sleep.

Sleep 1984 J H Herman, M Erman, R Boys et al.

We examined the relationship between eye movement direction in REM sleep recorded by electrooculograph (EOG) and gaze direction in dream imagery. In a double-blind protocol, carefully screened and trained subjects were awakened subsequent to direct coupled EOG activity that was either predominantly horizontal or vertical. Following a target eye movement that fulfilled predetermined amplitude...

The single-mindedness and isolation of dreams.

Sleep September 1978 A Rechtschaffen

Dreams are descirbed as "single-minded," meaning that they tend to be unaccompanied by other, simultaneous streams of thought and imagery. Four manifestations of single-mindedness are discussed: (1) the absence of a reflective awareness that one is dreaming while the dream is in progress; (2) the absence of alternative images and thoughts while attending to the primary dream content; (3) the...