Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy
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The Correlation of Neuroscience and Dreams

Soar Wong^{* *}Correspondence: Soar Wong, Department of Neuroscience, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran, Email:

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Dreams are both perceptual and neurological phenomena. They were mostly examined from a perceptual point in the first part of the 20^th century. Dreams are purely subjective experiences that cannot be researched only through physiological means. Sleep is characterized by sensory motor detachment in all mammals. It is distinguished from coma by the fact that sensory inputs can easily wake up the sleeper if they are intense, sudden, or conspicuous enough. Despite it is seeming separation from the outside world, the sleeping brain is capable of producing a wide range of conscious experiences on its own, from abstract ideas to the “immersive spatiotemporal hallucinations” that characterize full-fledged dreams.

During a regular night's sleep, the brain goes through biological changes such as alterations in neural activity, muscular tone, body shifting, and ocular motions. These alterations can be classified into many stages of sleep, each with its own set of physiological markers. The stages of Rapid-Eye Movement (REM) sleep and Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep are among them. There are a few key distinctions between REM and NREM dream reports. Although academics argue regarding the existence of qualitative differences, there is universal agreement that quantitative differences exist. Dream reports are acquired far more frequently after REM awakenings than after NREM awakenings, according to research. Subjects dream reports are linked to their REM sleep duration. REM awakening reports were typically longer, more multimodal perceptually, more emotive, and less suggestive of waking life than NREM awakening reports. Judges can tell the difference between unaltered REM and NREM dream reports, and some individuals can tell whether they were awakened from REM or NREM.

The features of REM sleep have a constant set of traits. People frequently feel they are awake while dreaming. Multimodal pseudo-perceptions can be found in dreams; they can include any or all sensory modalities, although the most common are visual and motor activities. Dream imagery can shift and is frequently odd, although reports often include sights and events that occur in everyday life. Self-reflection and other forms of meta-cognition are reduced or absent in dreams compared to waking life. Another property of dreams is orientational stability; persons, times, and places are blended, incongruous, and discontinuous. Dreams also build a coherent story that explains and connects all dream aspects. Finally, NREM statements seem to be more likely than REM statements to include thought-like mentation and descriptions of current worries. Lucid dreaming is the conscious awareness of one's current situation while dreaming. In this stage, the dreamer may have some control over their own activities in the dream, as well as the characters and the dream's environment. Dream control has been claimed to increase with conscious lucid dreaming practice, although the ability to control components of the dream is not required for a dream to be considered “lucid”. A lucid dream is any dream in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. The existence of lucid dreaming has been shown scientifically.

Some the research suggests that brain activity during sleep is responsible for the vivid dreams we remember when we wake up. These dreams aid in memory retention, creativity, and emotional processing. We all know that most children do not get enough sleep. Some conditions, such as Alzheimer's, cause patients to sleep less, while others, such as REM sleep behavior disorder and mood disorders, directly affect dreams. Sleep and dreams must be studied in order to understand what occurs when we do not get enough sleep and how these diseases can be treated.