dream

Also known as dreaming, dreams

thumb|upright=1.5|In this illustration, politician Daniel O'Connell dreams of a confrontation between his outfit and that of [[George IV (r. 1820–1830; shown via a thought bubble)]]

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Research

19,614 papers

Do animals dream?ReviewConsciousness and cognition · 2021Malinowski JE, Scheel D, McCloskey MDOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103214
Dream engineering: Simulating worlds through sensory stimulation.ReviewConsciousness and cognition · 2020Carr M, Haar A, Amores J et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.102955
The brain as a dream state generator: an activation-synthesis hypothesis of the dream process.The American journal of psychiatry · 1977Hobson JA, McCarley RWDOI: 10.1176/ajp.134.12.1335
The future of dream science.ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2017Bulkeley KDOI: 10.1111/nyas.13415
The dream in contemporary psychiatry.ReviewThe American journal of psychiatry · 2001Reiser MFDOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.158.3.351
Dream experiences and the neural correlates of perceptual consciousness and cognitive access.ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Fazekas P, Nemeth GDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0356
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences.Consciousness and cognition · 2024Balch J, Raider R, Keith J et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103708
[Exploring dream contents by neuroimaging].ReviewBrain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo · 2014Horikawa T, Kamitani Y

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Article

30 sections

Contents

Etymology
Subjective experience and content
Effects of regional or global catastrophes
Neurophysiology
Generation
Theories on function
Religious and other cultural contexts
Hindu
Abrahamic
Buddhist
Other
Interpretation
Images and literature
Lucidity
Recollection
Dream-recording machine
Miscellany
Illusion of reality
Absent-minded transgression
Non-REM dreams
Daydreams
Hallucination
Nightmare
Night terror
Déjà vu
Melatonin
See also
References
Further reading
External links

thumb|upright=1.5|In this illustration, politician Daniel O'Connell dreams of a confrontation between his outfit and that of [[George IV (r. 1820–1830; shown via a thought bubble)]]

A dream is a succession of images, dynamic scenes and situations, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend more than two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5–20 minutes.