According to Hobson, Pace-Schotter & Stickgold (2000), since image studies show activation of "limbic" and "paralimbic" structures of the forebrain during desynchronized sleep, as compared to wakefulness (120,126-128), emotion may be a primary shaper of dream plots, rather than playing a secondary role plot instigation. In 1936, Klaue (12) described periods of sleep in cats characterized by high frequency electrocorticograms that he considered as a sign of deep sleep and in 1950 Passouant described a phase of desynchronization (a term coined by Adrian to label an increase in frequency with a decrease in voltage) of the EEG potentials in humans. On the other hand, cells that were silent during the behavioral task did not show the increase in frequency. Another change of the electro-oscillograms we disclosed in rats by carefully analyzing their time-course while a dream is on (as well as during attentive wakefulness) is the presence of short periods of desynchronization that interrupt or superimpose on theta waves. News Physiol Sci 1998;13:91-7. Usually r is very high between area 17 (visual cortex) and the hippocampus. According to this author, in children at the age of two, when the hippocampus, which is still in the process of development at birth, becomes functional, REM sleep takes on its interpretive memory function (134). Brain 1997;120:1173-97. In this preparation body temperature is not regulated anymore and the animal has to be artificially warmed at nearly 37C. Mirmiran M, Van Someren E. The importance of REM sleep for brain maturation. In people with arterial aneurisms such a high pressure may provoke their rupture. The very essence of dreams is, certainly, memorized information. In: Klemm, W. R. & Vertes, R. P. Candia et al. When they sleep, fishes keep quiet, with no apparent movements, and then they can be easily fished with a hand.". While Freud makes many intuitive In ancient Greece, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle discussed about the meaning of dreams, concluding that the prevailing mistic and mythic concepts about them were incorrect. The other is that dreams are caused Central activation of autonomic effectors during mental stimulation of motor activity in man. In humans, both reflex activities are also deeply inhibited during desynchronized sleep. Fortunately, thanks to this peculiar incomplete motoneuron inhibition we are able to record movements occurring in both humans and non-human animals and thus infer the presence of dreams. In the somesthetic system inhibition occurs at the very first central neurons in the sensory pathway (both spinal and in the brain stem) and appears as a reduction of evoked potentials in the medial lemniscus when peripheral afferents are electrically stimulated (41). 2011 Dec;20(4):998-1008. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.10.005. When a dream has a verbal content the tongue, lips and other facial muscles do contract and if the dream is deambulatory several lower limb muscles do contract, expressing the behavior triggered by the imagined walking. 40. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help C R Soc Biol (Paris) 1938;128:533-9. Neurosc Biobehav Rev 1992;16:372-97. 44. Sleep research: pictures from the early years. Brain activity during this time keeps us functioning and ready to process information when we wake up the next morning! 21. 64. Pontine cholinergic neurons show fos-like immunoreactivity associated with cholinergically induced REM sleep. 69. Pompeiano O. Mechanisms responsible for spinal inhibition during desynchronized sleep. A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur for the most part involuntarily during certain stages of sleep. 41. physiological function. Those that are common to all behaviors (increase in heart rate, blood pressure, blood flow to the nervous system and muscles, ventilation, pupil diameter and palmar and plantar electrical conductance) and are intended to increase the supply of blood, oxygen, glucose etc. 65. When any part of the brain programs a behavior it sends the program to the cerebellum. Eine Methodik der Ableitung localisierter Potentialschwankungen aus subcortikalen Hirngebieten. 23. His personal oracle, however, disagreed and convinced him that his dreams were warnings from the gods. Researchers working on dream usually do not believe that dreaming may occur in non-human animals, probably due to religious and philosophical reasons but also to a great mistake, i.e., that dreaming is a high level mental activity, such as doing mathematics, but it is not. In: M. C. Hepp-Reymond & G. Marini (eds.) Moruzzi G. Active processes in the brain stem during sleep. Winson (1990) believes that dreams "reflect an individual strategy for survival. San Diego, 1973. Spreng LF, Johnson LC, Lubin A. Autonomic correlates of eye movement bursts during state REM sleep. John Wiley and Sons, New york 1982. Depression of electrically induced reflexes (H- reflexes) in man during low voltage EEG sleep. There are two kinds of vegetative components: 1. J Abnorm Psychol 1982;91:433-6. In normal humans they found that around 20% of the dreams contain a vestibular component (vertigo, sensation of head drop) but in people with a vestibular illness the proportion of such dreams increased to over 70%, as expected from the close relationship between dreams and the events occurring in the previous day (39). Wehr TA. De Sanctis S. I Sogni e il Sonno. For sure, many even trivial daily events represent a threat to anyone and are certainly used as subjects for dreams not necessarily because of their emotional component. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1955:673-690. It is well known that during desynchronized sleep the pupil undergoes an increase in diameter (midriasis), which is not produced by direct sympathetic activation but rather to parasympathetic inactivation, that overcomes the tonic pupillary constrictor activity of the parasympathetic system during synchronized sleep. These authors argue that despite the marked suppression of desynchronized sleep provoked by tricyclic antidepressants neither selective serotonine reuptake inhibitors and mono-amino-oxydase nor learning and memory are disrupted. The PubMed wordmark and PubMed logo are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While the how and why of dreaming may be explored using physiological and biological methods, dreaming is also a subjective experience involving a form of mentation that can offer representations of an individual's internal world. and transmitted securely. 113. Braun AR, Balkin TJ, Wesenten NJ, Carson RE, Varga M, Baldwin P, et al. Freuds wish-fulfillment. The meaning of dreams. WebThis theory also implies that dreams are not independently functional but rather a coproduct of the sleeping brain, reflecting the dreamers physiological and psychological eCollection 2017. Considering that most dreams in rats (31,32) are related to olfaction, not to vision, potentials that resemble PGOs in the amygdala of this animal species should also be taken as signs of dreaming rather than PGOs. We hypothetize that theta waves are commanding signals that recruit in due sequence the circuits that generate wakefulness and desynchronized sleep and their components; their frequency and voltage generally increase in parallel with heart rate and intensity of movements (Valle & Timo-Iaria, unpublished results). Brain Mechanism and Perceptual Awareness. Schmidt MH, Sakai K, Valatrix JL, Jouvet M. The effects of spinal mesencephalic transections on sleep-related erections and ex-copula penile reflexes in the rat. However, they ignored that the dreams were produced by the brain. 18. 83. Perspective of Motor Behavior and its Neural Basis. WebDream theories developed by Freud suggest that dreams are psychological, revealing hidden urges, for example. Therefore, desynchronized sleep should be ascribed a homeothermic function (116). By visually examining the amplitude of theta waves in these examples it seems they vary at random but when the instant variation of voltage is plotted as a function of time, a regular variation appears during the phasic movements (figure 10). 75. In cats, Baust (1971) recorded tachycardia starting 1 or 2 seconds before eye movements appear (38). Milbrandt J. Ann Rev Psychol 1990;41:557-884. (1999) (126,127,129,130). Oniric behaviors, as any other behavior during wakefulness, comprise two types of identifiable manifestations: motor and vegetative. Changes in hippocampal gene expression associated with the induction of long-term potentiation. Later research argues that dreams are physiological, beginning with random electrical impulses deep within the brain stem. 34. Roffwarg et al. J Neurophysiol 1954;17:532-57. Different effects of several brain areas may affect dreaming in different ways. Exptl Neurol 1963;8:93-111. Selective deactivation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has been found in desynchronized sleep. Doctoral thesis, Federal University of So Paulo, 1995. 114. Generally, in humans oniric activity is expressed as eye movements, what is obviously linked to vision as the main human sensory channel. Table 1 shows the results of some of such studies, including our data concerning nearly 2,000 dreaming episodes recorded from rats. Xu Q, Xie H, Zheng D, Wu X, Zhang Y, Li T, Yan T. J Pers Med. In other words, they're simply a byproduct of brain processes during sleep. A theory that has many This may be related to the presence of pet animals in most families in the Western countries and consequently this "subject" probably becomes the main thought of children. Since evoking visual reminiscences during wakefulness and the building up of dreams with visual information are dependent on the visual cortex, both facts can be correlated. The lag between tachycardia and eye movements may be related to all the neural processes that are involved in the phases preceding adn succeeding the oniric behavior, including the very identification of the dream content. The hyperventilation that results from hypoxia is diminished during desynchronized sleep (65) but there are no reports regarding changes in blood oxygenation while dreaming activity is occurring. Science 1978;201:269-72. In fact, all the phases of wakefulness and sleep, including desynchronized sleep, occur in the cerebellar cortex. WebPhysiological function Theory regular brain stimulation from REM sleep may help develop and preserve neural pathways. Madsen PC, Holm S, Vorstup S, Friberg L, Lassen NA, Wildschiotz LF. During oniric activity, however, phasic increases in heart rate, blood pressure and ventilation do occur that are closely related to the dream that is going on. 72. Such high values of r may mean that theta waves arrive in such areas almost synchronously, coming from some other sites in the central nervous system. 42. It is usually taken for granted that PGO potentials are essential manifestations for the electrophysiological identification of dreaming activity but such view is not well founded. Despite the fact that many studies have found that mental activity during wakefulness differs from that during dreaming, the mechanisms involved in both may differ as to the degree of control over the release and combination of memorized information in wakefulness and in desynchronized sleep. Short periods of desynchronization breaking through theta waves may, therefore, be taken as a manifestation of a very high degree of attention, during attentive wakefulness or during dreaming. The authors concluded that the correlation they found was probably involved in memory consolidation but such coincidence may indicate that during dreaming memorized information is being revoked to integrate a given dreaming pattern. Jouvet M. Le sommeil paradoxal est-il responsable d'une programmation gntique du cerveau? Brain Res 1985;327:362-6. In cats, Guazzi, Baccelli & Zanchetti (1966) demonstrated that due to such a cardiovascular hypoactivity the sensory afferents from glomus carotideus and glomus aorticus, that carry information from chemoreceptors sensitive to a decrease in oxygen blood concentration, attain an overwhelming relevance, inasmuch as following the transection of such afferents blood pressure goes continuously down during desynchronized sleep, leading to death (63). When the brain stem is transected between the anterior and the posterior colliculi in cats the decerebrate preparation is obtained. Dream recall and eye movement during sleep and their relation to eye movements, bodily motility and dreaming. Sleep and dreaming: induction and mediation of REM sleep by cholinergic mechanisms. Interestingly enough, if body temperature in cats subjected to pontomesencephalic transection is lowered, the amount of desynchronized sleep increases. Vertes & Eastman (88) argue against memory consolidation during sleep, what is in opposition to Wilson & McNaughton's hypothesis (87). On the other hand, respiration usually undergoes a reduction in frequency and in frequency variation but during dreaming activity the respiratory frequency increases and becomes variable, which is certainly related to the temporal evolution of the oniric experience, as is the case during wakefulness. Nikolaev E, Kaminska B, Tischmeyer W, Matthies E, Kaczmarek L. Induction of expression of genes encoding transcription factors in the rat brain elicited by behavioral training. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1987;66:383-90. Sleep 1982;5:169-87. Jung R, Kornmller AE. Geschichte der Physiologie. Marini G. Motor phenomena during sleep. Life Science 1989;45:1349-56. During the nineteenth century several physiologists and neuropsychiatrists tried to understand the mechanisms and meaning of dreams. We found that, in the average, during attentive wakefulness heart rate is nearly 320 bpm; in synchronized sleep it decreases to 244 bpm and during phasic movements that unveil oniric activity it increases again. Neuroscience 1997;81:893-926. 25. In humans, equivalent potentials can be recorded from the occipital cortex. Such a recovery means that other mechanisms are put into action that are able to generate not only wakefulness but desynchronized sleep as well. Bookshelf Klein M, Michel F, Jouvet M. tude polygraphique du sommeil chez les oiseaux. 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