2001/01/01 by Robert Stickgold · 1 citation
Neuroscience · Psychology · Mathematics · #Sleep and Wakefulness Research #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Circadian rhythm and melatonin #Dream #Sleep (system call) #Scientific discovery #Computer science #Field (mathematics) #Psychoanalysis #Data science #Psychology #Cognitive science #Neuroscience #Mathematics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1100/tsw.2001.38
openalex publication_date 2001/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
The scientific study of dreams has had a long but tortured history. While the discovery of REM sleep in 1953 and its strong correlation with dreaming led to a renewed hope that the study of dreaming could be moved to a solidly scientific and physiological base, such studies have provided only mixed success. In 1977, Hobson and McCarley proposed the activation-synthesis model for dream construction based on the physiological features of REM sleep, but since then the field has shown surprisingly little progress.