Experimental study. In cats, Thomas & Benoit (18) have found oniric activity during synchronized sleep, similar to what we described in rats as pre-paradoxical sleep (19,20) as intermediate phase. 9. The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1967;45:352-423. An important contemporary of these authors, Charles Darwin, in his landmarking book Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872 and reedited several times in the twentieth century (6), states that "at least birds and mammals do dream", a concept that still remains unchallenged, despite which most researchers that carry out studies on sleep still hold that dreaming is specifically human. Front Neurol. 11. Arch Ital Biol 1963;101:648-68. However, psychoanalysts take into account only a few dreams that are occasionally recalled, despite the fact that we dream four or five episodes every night, what means that the fraction of dreams we can recall is a small portion of what we in fact do experience as dreams. 70. Desynchronized sleep has been identified in many mammals and birds (16) but below the birds only in crocodiles brief periods of an equivalent phase (eye movements, low voltage electro-oscillograms and cervical hypotonia) seem to occur (17). Baldissera F, Cesa-Bianchi MG, Mancia M. Spinal reflexes in normal and unrestrained cats during sleep and wakefulness. There are two kinds of vegetative components: 1. Physiological-functioning theor y was supported in a 2009 paper written by J. Allan 126. 98. Sleep 1973;2:36-42. Braun et al. 101. 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. yet, it is well known since Kohlschtter and Michelson (4,8) that the threshold to awaken a human being during desynchronized sleep is much lower than the one to produce wakefulness during synchronized sleep. As such, this explanation may be interpreted as a way of doing something that we should never be allowed to do without paying for it. Eye movements in humans predominate because vision is our main sensory channel and our visual memory is overwhelmingly predominant, resulting in preponderance of visual dreams. 94. WebAs the foregoing discussion of rival theories of dream function suggests, there are many findings that contradict the idea that dreams have any kind of physiological or One is that dreams are generated by the activation of neural activity in the brainstem and its signal transmission to the cortex. Possible role for the transcription factor zif268/egr-1, polyoma enhancer activator 3, and AP2. Science 1978;201:269-72. Dement WC. Nature 1989;340:474-6. Hodes R, Dement WC. "Dreams are not ghosts (phantasmata), since they are closely related to the events of the previous day". J Neurophysiol 1966;29:871-87. According to Mancia (1995), the brain "produces dreams" as "a symbolic process of elaborating, interpreting and reorganizing in narrative sequences all the material accumulated in the memory during waking hours". Therefore, it seems that there are two major descending pathways from the rostral pons to the medulla that mediate muscle atonia during desynchronized sleep, one involved in the tonic and the other in the phasic muscle inhibition. Freuds wish-fulfillment. In addition, blood flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery decreases during synchronized sleep whereas in desynchronized sleep it is similar to that occurring in waking (133). Kubin L, Davies RO, Pack AI. Visual dreams provoke eye movements. We spend a lot of time sleeping. Moruzzi's coined the name desynchronized sleep, which we prefer, because in humans desynchronization is the main electrophysiological marker of this phase. Braz J Med Biol Res 1992;5:745-50. Christy B, Nathans D. DNA binding site of the growth factor-inducible protein Zif268. Science 1953;118:273-4. Differentiating Oneiric Stupor in Agrypnia Excitata From Dreaming Disorders. Cognitive and emotional processes during dreaming: a neuroimaging view. Cesar Timo-Iaria (in memorian); Angela Cristina do Valle. 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. Fenn WO, Hursh JB. Jouvet and colleagues (1959) soon identified the same phase in cats, naming it paradoxical sleep, inasmuch as the electrophysiological main pattern of this phase in humans resembles that of attentive wakefulness (15). (1997) found during desynchronized sleep a consistent activation of the pons, midbrain, anterior hypothalamus, caudate and medial prefrontal, caudal orbital, anterior cingulate, parahippocampal and inferior temporal cortices (126). 62. Brain Res 1996;770:192-201. 54. Neurosci Res 1993;17:127-140. Muscle atonia during desynchronized sleep is, as stated above, generated in the alpha-coeruleus nucleus and involves both direct and indirect pathways that inhibit the motoneurons. Two major theories have been proposed regarding the neural circuits involved in dreaming. 33. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help The discovery of the close association between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming and development of sleep laboratory techniques ushered in a new era in the study of dreams. Narcolepsy. Assoc Psychophysiol Stud Sleep. eCollection 2020. Experimental methodologies permitted investigation of the responsiveness of dreams to external stimulation and the effects of deprivation of REM sleep. (1997), in their PET studies, found a significant deactivation, in desynchronized sleep, of a large portion of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, what was found also by Madsen et al. De Sanctis S. I Sogni e il Sonno. Considering that desynchronization is predominant all over the cortex in humans and in the frontal cortex of both cats and rats, we consider it to be a phylogenetically more recent functional acquisition. Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-cyle an (H2O)-O-15 PET study. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted Eye movements during dreaming are usually expressed as potentials of different voltages, which can be interpreted as due to distinct movements performed as a function of the movements of the dreamed of objects. As mentioned above, Plato, preceding by twenty four centuries one of the dogmas of psychoanalysis, believed that "forbidden" dreams, such as incestuous or criminal dreams, were only a way of doing incestual sex or killing someone without punishment. Essential manifestations of dreaming are the conscious experience, the electrophysiological, the motor and the vegetative expression of oniric behaviors in humans as well as in other animals. In fact, we ignore almost completely why we dream. As any neural information, it has to be analyzed, so that the nervous impulses, which carry it be decoded and integrated as a specific neural configuration, that contains all the information released (or revoked) from the mnemonic archives. 131. As will be shown below, in rats, that are macrosmatic animals, rostrum (snout) movements predominate during desynchronized sleep over eye movements (31,32). 2020 Nov 12;11:565694. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.565694. 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. Functional neuroanatomy of human rapid-eye-movement sleep and dreaming. Many hypotheses have been advanced but so far they do not explain why and what for we do dream. The reinterpretation of dreams: an evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming. 113. Aserinsky E, Kleitman N. Regularly occurring periods of eye motility and concomitant phenomena during sleep. Not only theta waves do occur in the cerebellar cortex during desynchronized sleep but also spindles and delta waves are found in this organ in synchronized sleep, just as in neocortical areas. Such electrophysiological studies demonstrate that the abovementioned sites in the central nervous system are involved in the oniric movements but they do not prove that such structures generate them. Vertes & Eastman (2000), for instance, believe that the stressful conditions in experiments intended to demonstrate a role of desynchronized sleep and dreaming in consolidation of memory spoil the results (88). 97. The leading theory of dreaming in the early decades of this research was the psychoanalytic, which views dreams as highly meaningful reflections of unconscious mental functioning. With developments in understanding of the neurophysiology of REM sleep, new theories of dreaming were proposed. Webanalyzing dreams. Inasmuch as all this relevant knowledge is entirely ignored, we hope the present review may help in rescuing it (4). Behav Brain Res 1995;69:13-22. Dreams and Nightmares in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Review. The command character of theta waves is probably the reason why such potentials occur almost simultaneously in different brain structures. The tonic inhibition of motoneurons by circuits in the alphacoeruleus nucleus during desynchronized sleep is mediated by hyperpolarization of their membrane (41-43). The site is secure. In non-human animals the report regarding dreams is obviously impossible but, fortunately, a dream can be detected in both humans and other species by analyzing its motor, vegetative and electrophysiological manifestations, as will be described below. Brain Res Bull 1992;28:479-84. 82. Such a recovery means that other mechanisms are put into action that are able to generate not only wakefulness but desynchronized sleep as well. This is an additional fact to point to the activation of other mechanisms capable of producing wakefulness and desynchronized sleep, including dreaming. The function of dreaming Theories on the function of REM sleep and dreaming, with which it has a contingent relationship, remain diverse. They include facilitation of memory storage, reverse learning, anatomical and functional brain maturation, catecholamine restoration, psychoanalytical (wish fulfilment or otherwise). It i Foulkes D. Children's dreams. By recording potentials from large ensembles of rat hippocampal neurons related to the body position in space (place cells) during behavioral tasks, Wilson & McNaughton (87) found that neurons that fired together when the animals occupied particular locations in the environment (hence the name place cells) also exhibited an increased tendency to fire together during subsequent sleep, in comparison to sleep episodes preceding the behavioral tasks. 57. In addition, zif-268 is up-regulated in several novelty or learning behavioral paradigms, including two-way active avoidance (104), brightness discrimination (105), and enriched environment exposure (106). We suppose, instead, inasmuch as dreams are forgotten if we are not aroused while dreaming or within ten to fifteen minutes immediately after the dream has ceased, that it may well be that dreams are forgotten because the reticular activating system is highly deactivated during desynchronized sleep and thus the memory of the dreams cannot be consolidated (110). Table 1 shows the results of some of such studies, including our data concerning nearly 2,000 dreaming episodes recorded from rats. 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. In cats, cortical electro-oscillograms are also desynchronized but in the hippocampus theta waves (that will be later described) predominate. Bol Inst Est Md Biol Mxico 1962;20:155-64. In nocturnal macrosmatic animals, olfaction is the predominant sensory channel and their vibrissae are usually very long, to detect the presence of objects at relatively large distances. REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness. Esoteric power, useless, useful: considerations about dreams in cognitive-behavioural therapy. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1996;42:123-7. This causes the amygdala and hippocampus to become active, which help to influence the brain systems that control sensations, memories, and emotions. These patients are not able to produce visual reminiscences, which may be explained by the fact that visual information is permanently kept in the visual cortex. 132. 3. A dream is a conscious experience that occurs during sleep. 105. J Cerebr Blood Flow Metab 1991;11:502-7. Psychoanalysis also considers dreams as the expression of repressed wishes; this is undoubtly true as to only a few dreams, whereas several studies reveal, instead, that most dreams are closely related to the events of the previous day, as Aristotle had already demonstrated. Baust W. Die Phnomenologie des Schlafes. By measuring the voltage of the potential generated by the rotation it is possible to know if the object is near or far. 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. In fact, it does frequently occur when movements are expressed as high frequency potentials. 133. 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. Brain 1997;120:1173-97. Salivary, gastric, enteric, pancreatic and billiary secretion and contraction of the smooth muscle of the gastrointestinal viscera are specific vegetative components of feeding behavior, as well as secretion of luteotropic hormone, increase in cavernous blood pressure and vaginal blood flow and several other endocrine adjustments are part and characteristic of sexual behavior. Recordings of the electrical activity of the brain, which we will refer to as electro-oscillograms, reveal specific patterns that express the phases of sleep in several central regions of the brain, including the phase during which most oniric activity takes place, the desynchronized or paradoxical sleep. Mol Brain Res 1996;38:77-84. J Neurophysiol 1977;40:284-95. Valle AC, Pellarin L, Timo-Iaria C. Oniric patterns in the rat. 128. Moruzzi G. The sleep-wakefulness cycle. The reason for such vegetative adjustments is obviously that the nervous tissue is metabolically very demanding, so much so that 20% of the inspired oxygen goes to the nervous system. Brain Res 1970;19:263-75. Doneshka & Kehaiyov (1978) reported dreams with striking vestibular sensations. Changes in hippocampal gene expression associated with the induction of long-term potentiation. During dreaming, however, it is well known that both heart rate and blood pressure undergo short duration increases (as related to the decreased values), which are most likely linked to the oniric behavior. Chase MH, Morales FR. Behav Brain Sci 2000;23:793-842. Van de Castle RL. 68. Although it may happen in any sleep phase, it prevails during the desynchronized phase. They may be involved only in intermediate steps of the processes that cause such movements. The .gov means its official. Expt Neurol 1976;53:328-38. 28. Darwin C. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. In cats, Baust (1971) recorded tachycardia starting 1 or 2 seconds before eye movements appear (38). eCollection 2019. Hobson JA, Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R. Dreaming and the brain: toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states. At the age between 7 and 9 years Foulkes' subjects produced much more consistent narrations of the dream content, as should be expected (24). Eye movements in born-blinds are probably due to a quite different reason. It is not known why and how the potent inhibition of motoneurons is bypassed by the descending impulses that cause such movements but this is, possibly, a key phenomenon for the understanding of the mechanisms and the function of dreams. 52. 27. Proc Assoc Res Nerv Ment Dis. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1978. Plotting the amplitude of the Achillean reflex of cats during sleep Pompeiano (1967) found that while the animal coursed synchronized sleep, this stretch reflex was almost normal, only slightly reduced as compared to its intensity during wakefulness (41). Analysis of the electro-oscillograms yields extremely relevant information that can be correlated with movements and changes in heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. 93. Generally, in humans oniric activity is expressed as eye movements, what is obviously linked to vision as the main human sensory channel. If the animal is kept alive by forced feeding and is kept warm, in six days frontal desynchronization and theta waves in the other cortical areas reappear and then not only wakefulness is fully recovered but also desynchronized sleep, including oniric activity. eCollection 2017. During wakefulness theta waves consistently exhibit a lesser voltage and are less regular than during desynchronized sleep, what makes it easy to tell wakefulness from desynchronized sleep from the shear inspection of the electro-oscillograms (21,30,31,125). In more recent years several approaches confirmed these findings (89). Behav Brain Res 1997;84:109-16. 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. Ergebn. Depression of electrically induced reflexes (H- reflexes) in man during low voltage EEG sleep. One is that dreams are generated by the activation of neural activity in the brainstem and its signal transmission to the cortex. 39. Kahn D, Pace-Schott EF, Hobson JA. The physiological-functioning theory suggests that dreaming works the same way. Brainstem mechanisms of slow-wave sleep and REM sleep. 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). Much experimental work is needed before a convincing function can be ascribed to the fascinating physiological phenomenon that is dreaming. This author "thus proposes a psychoanalytical model of dreaming, in which dreams constitute a way of representing the individual's inner world with internal objects related with one another and with the self" (135). Neurosci Conscious. These findings do not necessarily mean that such areas are involved in generating dreaming. However, we still do not know why most motor units are inactivated while a few ones are mobilized, causing real but incoherent and non-efficient movements. He properly related such dreams to his concern with that important war. 38. Control of ventilation during sleep. Exptl Neurol 1963;8:93-111. Studi Psicologici e Clinici di un Alienista. When any part of the brain programs a behavior it sends the program to the cerebellum. 81. Solms M. Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms. The meaning of dreams. Their data do not depart from modern studies of the same kind. Would you like email updates of new search results? Karger, Basel, 1997:65-76. Desynchronization is the rule, during this phase, in all cortical electro-oscillograms in humans and other primates. The heart rate and breathing quickens, and blood pressure rises. J Neurophysiol 1946;9:165-71. 7. Central activation of autonomic effectors during mental stimulation of motor activity in man. The atonia of myoclonia of active (REM) sleep. With the development of scientific technology, many theories of dreaming have been established. Physiol., Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New york 1972:1-165. Role of pontine tegmentum for locomotor control in mesencephalic cat. Such movements may take the sleeper to fall off the bed. Arch Gen Psychiat 1966;14:238-48. It is interesting to consider that while muscles all over the body are paralyzed during sleep, respiration is little affected, except that some muscles in the upper respiratory airways are inhibited during sleep (44). Usually such increases in blood pressure are not enough to lead it to attain normal levels but during a nightmare blood pressure may go up to 200 mmHg. From a very weak inhibition in early infancy, it goes up rapidly up to 15 years of age, evolving asymptotically from this period on. Fos-like immunoreactivity was also found in association with cholinergically induced REM sleep (107,108). Am J Physiol 1937;118:8-14. WebThe leading theory of dreaming in the early decades of this research was the psychoanalytic, which views dreams as highly meaningful reflections of unconscious mental functioning. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1966;21:562-77. This seems to be a highly improbably conception, among other reasons because, as dreaming is concerned, threatening events are as dangerous to the organism as bad news we hear and as crossing a street or watching a movie-film full of violence are as well. Two major theories have been proposed regarding the neural circuits involved in dreaming. Thanks to the extraordinary possibilities of functional connections that take place in the brain when the "basic circuitries of our personality are programmed", dreams do contribute to shape new solutions for new problems. 16. Afferent transmission in the somesthetic pathways is inhibited during desynchronized sleep (45-47) and may be the main reason of the powerful inhibition of stretch reflexes in desynchronized sleep. Brainstem Control of Wakefulness and Sleep. However, reflex penile erection is facilitated after spinal transection whereas mesencephalic transections significantly increase the latency to its reflex induction, without affecting the percentage of tests eliciting an erectile event. (1987) suggested the occurrence of two kinds of eye movements during dreams, one associated to the very dream content, another of reflex nature, that may be involved in those occurring in children and in blind people but such a hypothesis is unlikely to be valid (35). Later, the Roman writer Lucretius, the first popularizer of science, in his book De Rerum Natura (1978) credited these Greek philosophers for the discovery of the characteristics of sleep and dreams (2). Clin Chest Med 1985;6:563-75. Spreng LF, Johnson LC, Lubin A. Autonomic correlates of eye movement bursts during state REM sleep. Selective deactivation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has been found in desynchronized sleep. Winson (1990) believes that dreams "reflect an individual strategy for survival. 83. Another fancy hypothesis is the one that proposes that we dream to forget, in order to delete "unwanted" information by reverse learning or unlearning (118). Vertes RP, Kocsis B. Brainstem-diencephalo-septohippocampal systems controlling the theta rhythm of the hippocampus. 2. In rats bilateral lesion of the midbrain reticular formation is followed by a long lasting state of synchronized sleep, with predominance of phase III (Timo-Iaria, Assumpo & Bernardi, unpublished observations). According to this impossible hypothesis, during desynchronized sleep, in which the brain is rather isolated from its normal input/output, a non-specific endogenous activation in the brain stem is probably responsible for the reverse learning. J Neurosci 1991;11:2804-11. J Sleep Res 1993;2:63-9. The caudalmost portion of this system (then labeled descending hypnogenic cholinergic) comprises the ventral and dorsal Gudden's nuclei, whose stimulation with carbachol triggered sleep in nearly 20 seconds. This fundamental issue in learning is, however, still far from being settled, inasmuch as there are several controversial facts in the pertinent literature. Much effort was devoted to searching for parallels between physiological aspects of REM sleep and characteristics of associated dreams, with modest results. The Psychology of Dreaming. Rostrum movements in desynchronized sleep as a prevalent manifestation of dreaming activity in Wistar rats. Psychoanalysis considers dreams as an important window to the unconscious world, what makes dream interpretation a crucial factor in psychonalytic diagnosis and treatment. What is the activation-synthesis. Petersohn D, Schoch S, Brinkmann DR, Thiel G. The human synapsin II gene promoter. In decerebrate cats eye movements do occur and are integrated below the midbrain (67,95). The value of r is as high as 0.9618 when theta waves in the hippocampal CA1 field of one side are matched with those in the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis, what points to a close temporal relationship between theta waves in hippocampus and in the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis. Instead, they thought that dreams were not provoked by spirits, ghosts or gods, which took over the mind to express themselves through dreaming. Roffwarg HP, Adrien J, Herman J, Pessah M, Spiro R, Bowe-Anders C. The middle ear muscle activity in the neurophysiology and psychophysiology of the REM state. 100. (1962) clearly demonstrated that in the cat blood diastolic pressure falls deeply to around 60 mmHg, beginning as soon as the electrocorticogram starts to desynchronize. Noda H, Adey WR. Neuroscience 1997;78:13-38. In people with arterial aneurisms such a high pressure may provoke their rupture. (eds. 125. ), Ermdung, Schlaf un Traum, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Sttutgart 1971:123-172. In this review, the neural circuits underlying dreaming and the physiological functions associated with it are summarized. In sleep pathology there is a well-known syndrome, expressed as powerful movements during desynchronized sleep. 110. Some of his statements, hereby reproduced in a simplified form from his book on sleep and dreams, briefly illustrate his contribution to the study of this subject: "All creatures that have four limbs and are sanguine (mammals) display signs that they dream while asleep. A regular oscillation modulates the amplitude of the potentials. 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