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44 - The selective mood-regulatory theory of dreaming: an adaptive, assimilative, and experimentally based theory of dreaming

from Section VI - Disturbance in the REM sleep-generating mechanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

By
Milton Kramer
Edited by
Birendra N. Mallick ,
S. R. Pandi-Perumal ,
Robert W. McCarley  and
Adrian R. Morrison
Milton Kramer
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati
Birendra N. Mallick
Affiliation:
Jawaharlal Nehru University
S. R. Pandi-Perumal
Affiliation:
Somnogen Canada Inc, Toronto
Robert W. McCarley
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Adrian R. Morrison
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Summary

REM sleep has the dream experience as a frequent if not inevitable concomitant. Questions arise about the construction, function, and meaning of this peculiar and puzzling experience. How are the dreams of the night organized? How do they relate to REM sleep and to each other across the night? How do they relate to waking consciousness? And, do they serve an adaptive function? I will describe the selective mood-regulatory theory of dreaming as an experimentally based attempt to answer these questions.

The beginning of our exploration of a function for dreaming is at the observation that dreaming and sleep disturbances may be related.

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Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Regulation and Function
 , pp. 450 - 459
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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