Recurring themes and images in a series of consecutive REM dreams.
A consecutive series of REM dreams were collected from one subject over a period of four nights and examined for recurring themes and images. Analysis suggested a nonrandom pattern of dreaming consistent with the proposition that the themes and images are held as elements in a limited capacity storage system from which they can be recycled. One such system can be described by means of a simple testable mathematical model. Some of the implications of this are discussed.
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Academic Department of Community Medicine, King's College Medical School, London, UK.
D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D004325:Dreams / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012895:Sleep, REM; D013997:Time Factors