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Allan Hobson and the Neuroscience of Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 7, 2010 | 12 Comments

The neuroscience of dreaming is a relatively new enterprise but has quickly become the major paradigm of experimental dream research today. J. Allan Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard University, is the undisputed celebrity of this scientific outlook, and the author of several popular books on the topic. Hobson, in his 30 years of [...]

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Lucid Dreaming: a Hybrid of REM and Waking Cognition

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 18, 2009 | 9 Comments

A study accepted in the journal Sleep last month (but not yet published) claims that lucid dreaming should be not be considered a REM dreaming phenomenon but rather a unique state of consciousness (Voss, et al., 2009). Poetically, the assertion that lucid dreaming has elements of waking consciousness and dreaming has been made for [...]

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