In your dreams

• Autores: David Robson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2902, 2013, págs. 30-33
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Anyone who has ever awoken feeling amazed by their night's dream only to forget its contents by the time they reach the shower will understand the difficulties of studying such an ephemeral state of mind. Some of the best attempts to catalogue dream features either asked participants to jot them down as soon as they woke up every morning or, better still, invited volunteers to sleep in a lab, where they were awoken and immediately questioned at intervals in the night. Such experiments have shown that dreams tend to be silent movies--with just half containing traces of sounds. It is even more unusual to enjoy a meal or feel damp grass beneath one's feet--taste, smell and touch appearing only very rarely. Here, Robson examines the way the brain builds one's dreams and the factors that shape their curious stories.