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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Field of work
- Mechanisms of dreaming
- Stages of sleep
- REM sleep
- Definition of a dream
- Authentic dreaming
- Illusory dreaming
- Influences on dreaming
- Memories and experience
- Interpersonal attachment
- Drugs affecting dreaming
- Dreaming disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Schizophrenia
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|right|An artist's depiction of a dream
In the field of psychology, the subfield of oneirology (; ) is the scientific study of dreams. Research seeks correlations between dreaming and knowledge about the functions of the brain, as well as an understanding of how the brain works during dreaming with respect to memory formation and mental disorders. The study of oneirology can be distinguished from dream interpretation in that the aim is to quantitatively study the process of dreams instead of analyzing the meaning behind them.
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