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How the brain goes out of its mindDreaming is characterized by formal visual imagery (akin to hallucination), by inconstancy of time, place and person (akin to disorientation), by a scenario-like knitting together of disparate elements (akin to confabulation) and by an inability to recall (akin to amnesia). Taken together, these four dream features are similar to the delirium of organic brain disease. By studying the brain during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep--the phase of sleep in which most dreaming occurs--we can begin to understand its basis in the altered neurophysiology of REM.
Document ID
20040173314
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Hobson, J. A.
Date Acquired
August 22, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1996
Publication Information
Publication: Endeavour
Volume: 20
Issue: 2
ISSN: 0160-9327
Subject Category
Behavioral Sciences
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Non-NASA Center
NASA Discipline Neuroscience

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