The American psychologist Mary Whiton Calkins published in 1893 an important, although entirely unkwnown, article under the title Statistics of Dreams, wherein she introduced the technique of arousing people when they moved parts of the body during sleep and asking them to report their dreams (4,7). Ergebn. Physiol Behav 1974;12:293-5. 127. Theories on the function of REM sleep and dreaming, with which it has a contingent relationship, remain diverse. Several authors also quantified the kinds of dreams as related to their sensory content. If we dream we are walking, the electromyographic recordings from muscles involved in such behavior show quite clearly that they are not able to produce normal movements. Sleep and dreaming: induction and mediation of REM sleep by cholinergic mechanisms. 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. eCollection 2019. 1. 37. 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. 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 Ann Rev Psychol 1990;41:557-884. Fos-like immunoreactivity was also found in association with cholinergically induced REM sleep (107,108). Doneshka P, Kehaiyov A. & Bertini, M. Physiol Behav 1972;8:363-71. Rothschuch KR. There are other definitions of the word dream, too. Time course of foslike immunoreactivity associated with cholinergically induced REM sleep. Behav Brain Sci 2000;23:1008-9. The dream between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. Brooks DC, Bizzi E. Brain stem electrical activity during deep sleep. Dreams are still taken by a majority of the human kind as premonitory, ascribing them the function of telling us that something important will happen. The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1967;45:352-423. John Wiley and Sons, New york 1982. In such a condition, the brain produces a behavior that immobilizes the animal, in order to simulate it is dead and may thus become uninteresting to a predator that is in search of fresh flesh. 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. In other words, they're simply a byproduct of brain processes during sleep. The reason why when we dream we are walking we do not get out of the bed and really walk, or when we dream we are talking to someone we do not really talk, is that neural circuits located in the neighborhood of locus coeruleus, in the pontine tegmentum, inhibit the motoneurons and do not allow the real movements to occur. 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). Frequency clearly increases and becomes regular, as compared with the trend before oniric activity. Oka T, Iwakiri H, Mori S. Pontine-induced generalized suppression of postural muscle tone in a reflexively standing acute decerebrate cat. This site needs JavaScript to work properly. 60. Cognitive and emotional processes during dreaming: a neuroimaging view. A regular oscillation modulates the amplitude of the potentials. 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. 112. 45. Foulkes (1982) considered that dreams are so easily forgotten because the brain in desynchronized sleep is in a "reflective state". It has been proposed (120,123,124) that presleep mentation is infrequently incorporated in top dreams and that "naturalistic" day time events rarely enter dream content, but several authors correlated dream content to the previous day events, starting with Aristotle 2,400 years ago and with Calkins in 1893. Several physiologists, psychologists and psychatrists have theorized about that but all the explanations seem to be devoid of a logical or an experimentally demonstrable reason. J Neurophysiol 1938;1:413-30. Plenum Press, 1990. Sleep Res 1973;4:65. Such activation of zif-268, which is likely to be correlated with the effect of learning on desynchronized sleep, was larger in the frontal and hippocampal cortices, where memorization is well known to occur. WebWhen a person entered rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, it activates circuits within the brain stem. Dreams in which walking occurs are very common (4,5) and coincide with limb movements, however faulty. 36. During REM sleep, several physiological changes also take place. According to this author, in children at the age of two, when the hippocampus, which is still in the process of development at birth, becomes functional, REM sleep takes on its interpretive memory function (134). (36,37) have recorded contraction of the tympanic muscles (stapedius and tensor tympani) during human sleep. Braz J Med Biol Res 1996;29:1645-50. The hypothesis has been recently put forward by Revonsuo (2000) that the function of dreaming is to simulate threatening events, and to rehearse threat perception and threat avoidance (111). Timo-Iaria C, Negro N, Schmidek WR, Rocha TL, Hoshino K. Phases and states of sleep in the rat. Dreams during REM sleep tend to be longer, more vivid, more story-like, and more bizarre than those during NREM 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. Life Science 1989;45:1349-56. 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. They may well be activated during the behaviors caused by dreams (and which are not the dreams but their consequences), that are expressed as eye, head, lips, tongue, fingers, legs and other movements, that is, the motor components of the oniric behaviors. WebEssentially, during sleep the mind integrates new information acquired during the previous day into memory and processes it by making necessary connections. The neurophysiological mechanisms of the postural and motor events during desynchronized sleep. Villablanca J. Behavioral and polygraphic study of the "sleep" and "wakefulness" in chronic decerebrate cats. By comparing the program with the peripheral information, that tells it how the behavior is evolving, the cerebellum produces corrections, so that the execution can match the program. This is for sure the most enigmatic issue about dreaming. Baust W. Die Phnomenologie des Schlafes. 2019 Oct 22;10:1127. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2019.01127. Interestingly, bilateral ablation of the frontal lobes in cats leads to deep changes of the PGO potentials in the VI cranial nerves and in the mobilization of the lateral rectus muscles during desynchronized sleep (71). Dement WC. Editor-translator: Gallop, D., Aris & Phillips Ltd., Warminster, England 1991. 4 According to Freud, While Freud makes many intuitive Therefore, alpha-coeruleus nucleus is mobilized by the mechanisms that generate desynchronized sleep and exerts its inhibitory action through the reticulospinal pathways, as well as through pathways that go to the brain stem motor nuclei. In rats, heart rate is clearly accelerated during the periods of oniric activity, expressed as rostrum+vibrissae, eye, head, ear and limb movements. Science 1994;265:676-9. 107. Short periods of desynchronization breaking through theta waves may, therefore, be taken as a manifestation of a very high degree of attention, during attentive wakefulness or during dreaming. After transection of the brain stem at the pontomesencephalic transition, rostrally to locus coeruleus, desynchronized sleep still occurs below the transection (10,90-93). 85. The cycle of sleep in the rat (preliminary report). Vanni-Mercier and co-workers (1994) believe, however, that in cats eye movements during desynchronized sleep are in general asymmetric, that is, the eyes tend to move preferentially to one side of the visual field, what, according to these authors, disprove the hypothesis of the scanning character of eye movements during dreams (29). Some presently available explanations seem science fiction, rather than true science. 2021 Aug 30;24(2):543. doi: 10.4081/ripppo.2021.543. 66. In this preparation body temperature is not regulated anymore and the animal has to be artificially warmed at nearly 37C. In both instances sleep evolved according to the phases of synchronized and then of desynchronized sleep, during which eye movements always occurred. Sleeping and Waking. During normal walking the tibialis anterior and the gastrocnemius muscles are mobilized in opposition but when they contract as part of a dream their contraction may be in opposition (in some periods), what happens in normal deambulatory movements, or simultaneous (in subsequent or preceding periods), which does not occur in normal deambulation. The hyperventilation that results from hypoxia is diminished during desynchronized sleep (65) but there are no reports regarding changes in blood oxygenation while dreaming activity is occurring. WebThis theory also implies that dreams are not independently functional but rather a coproduct of the sleeping brain, reflecting the dreamers physiological and psychological 103. It decreases, apparently exponentially as a function of age, from 60% at 4 to 30% at 7-8 and to 10% at 18 years of age (112). Nucleus reticularis pontis oralis is thought to contain the generator of theta rhythm (78,79) and is known to send direct efferents to the hippocampus and the cerebellar cortex, where we found theta waves that correlate closely with those in the hippocampus (Valle, Kubo, Iwamoto & Timo-Iaria, in preparation for publication). Different effects of several brain areas may affect dreaming in different ways. Some more recent theories of dreaming emphasize an adaptive function related to emotion and a role in learning and memory consolidation. 125. Silent functional magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates focal activation in rapid eye movement sleep. Physiological-functioning theor y was supported in a 2009 paper written by J. Allan De Sanctis, in 1899, in his book I Sogni, Studi Clinici ed Psicologici di un Alienista (Dreams, Clinical and Psychological Studies of a Psychiatrist), cites no less than 323 articles and books dealing with dreams, which proves that the objective study of dreams did not start during the middle of the 20th century, as is usually taken for granted (4). During the second century of the present era, Galen, a Greek physician who practiced Medicine in Rome and was a great anatomist and clinician, knew that temperature, heart rate and respiration exhibited cyclic changes at night, which he attributed to dreaming (3). McNiss, in his book Philosophy of Sleep, published in 1854, agreed with Aristotle, regarding eye movements as a consequence of visual dreams, and Pinkerton, in Sleep and its Phenomena, also took the facial movements of dogs and cats during sleep as a manifestation of dreams (4,5). Exp Brain Res 1989;74:11-23. Later research argues that dreams are physiological, beginning with random electrical impulses deep within the brain stem. C R S Soc Biol 1978;172:9-21. Valle AC. Problems with Physiological function Theory This does C R Soc Biol (Paris) 1959;153:1024-8. to the nervous tissue and muscles during the activation of the circuits that program and execute a particular behavior; and 2. 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). Gottesman C, Gandolfo G, Zernicki B. In this review, the neural circuits underlying dreaming and the physiological functions associated with it are summarized. 12. Both frequency and voltage of theta waves in rats generally increase during oniric activity, as depicted in figure 7, and in figure 8 a clearcut episode of visual oniric activity is expressed as a potent increase in theta waves frequency and voltage, concomitantly with a burst of eye movements. Brain Res 1979;176:233-54. Brain Res 1967;5:221-35. In some animals, however, a reduction of heart rate and respiration may occur, what also happens during an attentive wakefulness if they are threatened. Advances in Sleep Research, vol. However, during desynchronized sleep it was drastically reduced, being entirely inhibited for most of the time. Nature 1989;304:111-4. Our hypothesis is that the cerebellum is involved in overall corrections of the components of all kinds of behavior, including sleep. Vertes RP. Apparently, the main cause of such a reduction of blood pressure and heart rate is the active inhibition of the baroreceptor reflexes during this phase of sleep. Buchsbaum MS, Gillin JC, Wu J, Hazlett E, Sicotte N, Dupont RM, Bunney WE. The other is that dreams are caused 1996 Sep 12;383(6596):163-6. doi: 10.1038/383163a0. Klein M, Michel F, Jouvet M. tude polygraphique du sommeil chez les oiseaux. It may be more appropriate to explain the latter authors' results by reasoning that dreams are originated in memorized information and are, accordingly, closely related to events occurring before sleep. Darwin C. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. It has, however, been utilized with a great success in sleep studies. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1990;76:388-99. Wehr TA. Bookshelf Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Xenophanes, nearly 2,400 years ago, were opposed to the prevailing view of the phantastikon, that is, mystic apparitions, and to the premonitory character of dreams as their main characteristics. There are two kinds of vegetative components: 1. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies To discuss this issue we will concentrate only on a few hypotheses. In: Baust, W. eCollection 2017. Neuroscience 1997;81:893-926. 18. No wonder that dream recall is impaired in brain-damaged patients (97). eCollection 2020. What is the Therefore, theta waves undergo both AM and FM changes that certainly carry some kind of information that may prove in the future to be crucial for understanding dreams. During wakefulness such periods in rats are concomitant with short but complete immobilization, which is well known to occur when a high degree of attention is being directed to some external object. 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. Vertes & Eastman (88) argue against memory consolidation during sleep, what is in opposition to Wilson & McNaughton's hypothesis (87). 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. Figure 6 shows an increase in heart rate from 150 bpm to 180 bpm (the latter is the normal heart rate during resting wakefulness in this species), coinciding with the peak of eye movements. 19. Geniculate spike activity in primate sleep and wakefulness. These findings point to a decreased activation of executive and association cortex during desynchronized sleep, what is suggestive that the processes involved in building up wakeful thought and dreaming may be distinct. 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. Moruzzi G. Sleep and instinctive behavior. National Library of Medicine (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). 57. For the first time, direct and systematic investigation could be made of such topics as the occurrence, qualities, recollection, and childhood development of dreaming. 63. 40. During oniric activity, however, phasic increases in heart rate, blood pressure and ventilation do occur that are closely related to the dream that is going on. In decerebrate cats eye movements do occur and are integrated below the midbrain (67,95). Selective deactivation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has been found in desynchronized sleep. Accessibility In people with arterial aneurisms such a high pressure may provoke their rupture. Some authors have not been able to find changes in heart rate and respiration during desynchronized sleep (61) but there are striking demonstrations that blood pressure is reduced (figure 6), attaining values as low as 60 mmHg of systolic pressure; heart rate is also reduced and ventilation decreases (38,62). The subjects of dreams are broad-ranging and complex, incorporating self-image, fears, insecurities, strengths, grandiose ideas, sexual orientation, desire, jealousy and love". Induction of rapid eye movement sleep by carbachol infusion into the pontine reticular formation of the rat. 21. Timo-Iaria C, yamashita R, Hoshino K, Sousa-Melo A. Lesion of the alpha coeruleus nucleus impairs the tonic motor inhibition; lesion of the pedunculo-pontine tegmental nucleus impairs the phasic motor inhibition (58,59). However, we all know that many dreams are not emotional at all. It seems that a systematic investigation regarding the threshold to different types of stimulation is still lacking and should be performed, in order to establish which kinds of stimulation and effective thresholds are able to awaken humans and non-humans during sleep. Much experimental work is needed before a convincing function can be ascribed to the fascinating physiological phenomenon that is dreaming. The vegetative components, that are phasic increases of heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, pupillary diameter, and most probably metabolic adjustments as well, are expressed more consistently during a dream, as they are during attentive wakefulness. Above the transection, synchronized and desynchronized sleep keep occurring but without eye movements. Animal experimentation, by making it possible to implant electrodes in any part of the nervous system and to lesion and stimulate (electrically or chemically) also any nucleus or pathway, has been of the utmost relevance for the understanding of the mechanisms causing not only sleep but also the manifestations of dreaming. 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. WebPsychoanalytic theory of dream: Advanced by Freud, the psychoanalytic theory of dream stands as the most valid and fundamental among all the theories of dream. (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. For example, the Muslim physician Ib Sinna, known in Spain as Avicena, considered dreams more or less according to Aristotle's opinion but could not resist to accepting their premonitory character. Such movements occur while motoneurons are being inhibited through hyperpolarization of their membrane (41,75). Although it may happen in any sleep phase, it prevails during the desynchronized phase. 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). Rados R, Cartwright RD. On Sleep and Dreams. 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). However, human oniric behaviors are also expressed as lips, tongue and facial movements, as well as fingers, toes and whole limbs jerks, as described above. 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. Winson J. Does early night REM dream content reliably reflect presleep state of mind? In: Klemm, W. R. & Vertes, R. P. As any information consciously identified, a dream triggers a specific behavior, that we call an oniric behavior. Jouvet M. Programmation gntique itrative et sommeil paradoxal. Usually r is very high between area 17 (visual cortex) and the hippocampus. 84. In 1944 Obhlmeyer, Brilmayer & Uhlstrung (10) observed that in humans penile erection occurs during sleep at intervals of 85 minutes, which is the average duration of a sleep cycle. 70. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-cyle an (H2O)-O-15 PET study. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. Physiol., Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1972:166-307. 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. When the rat moves the head, for example (which may indicate a vestibular dream), heart rate goes up and may be as high as 330 bpm, similar to that occurring during attentive behavior. In humans, Hansotia and colleagues (34) found in humans, in accordance with our own observations in rats and cats, that oniric eye movements may be directed to one side or the other, not exclusively to one side, as stated by Vanni-Mercier and co-workers (29). WebDream theories attempt to inform us of our deeper psychological states and shed light on the function of our dreams. When any part of the brain programs a behavior it sends the program to the cerebellum. Arch Ital Biol 1963;101:648-68. Physiol Behav 1970;5:402-7. Nature, 2002, submitted. While humans dream around 100 minutes every night, cats exhibit signs of dreaming during nearly 200 minutes per day. There is experimental evidence that eye movements are generated near the nucleus of the abducent nerve but Pompeiano (1967) does not agree with this view (10,41). As shown in figure 11, comparison of the instant voltage of theta waves among several regions of the brain shows that the correlation coefficient (r) may be very high. As a matter of fact, manifestations of dreaming have been identified in many species, including chickens, chimpanzees, cats, rats and in some birds. Inasmuch as dreaming seems to occur in most birds and mammals, it is unlikely that it has no function in the animal organism. 4. 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. Important dream theories are Freud's interpretation of dreams, Cesar Timo-Iaria (in memorian); Angela Cristina do Valle. 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. WebAbstract. In ancient Greece, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle discussed about the meaning of dreams, concluding that the prevailing mistic and mythic concepts about them were incorrect. Brain Res 1970;19:263-75. Jung R, Kornmller AE. Differentiating Oneiric Stupor in Agrypnia Excitata From Dreaming Disorders. Since memorized information is the basic material to build up dreams, it is understandable that many (but not all) dreams are threatening and emotionally highly charged (111). A nerve growth factor-induced gene encodes a possible trancriptional regulatory factor. The postynaptic inhibitory control of lumbar motoneurons during the atonia of active sleep: effect of strychnine on motoneuron properties. Kubin L, Davies RO, Pack AI. Absence of ponto-geniculo-occipital (PGO) spikes in rats. Europ J Neurosci 1994;6:1298-1306. 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. 128. In fact, we ignore almost completely why we dream. Electrical potentials recorded from the medial vestibular nuclei precede eye movements by 20 to 30 milliseconds, which points to these nuclei as the last synaptic stations in the pathway that produces eye movements during desynchronized sleep. Freuds wish-fulfillment. Confrontations Psychiatriques 1986;27:153-81. Vanni-Mercier G, Pelisson D, Goffart L, Sakai K, Jouvet M. Eye saccade dynamics during paradoxical sleep in the cat. Gardner Jr R, Grossman WI, Roffwarg HP, Weiner H. The relationship of small limb movements during REM sleep to dreamed limb action. Vision is our predominant sensory channel, so much so that if we hear a sound we immediately convey the eyes to the source of the sound, trying to identify its origin, even if vision is absent. Maquet et al. Sakai K, Sastre JP, Kanamori N, Jouvet M. State-specific neurons in the ponto-medullary reticular formation with special reference to the postural atonia during paradoxical sleep in the cat. 31. Christy B, Nathans D. DNA binding site of the growth factor-inducible protein Zif268. Considering dreams as hallucinations, Hernndez-Pen (1966) theorized that they are possible because the system responsible for wakefulness is inactivated during sleep, releasing memory tracings which are brought to consciousness. Disclaimer. C R Soc Biol (Paris) 1938;128:533-9. Xerxes, in fact, had discovered an important aspect of dreams but his oracle discarded such an explanation, in favor of the mystic one. (1991) and Lovblad et al. 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