The capacity of stroke patients to report dreams.
We studied the capacity of stroke patients to report dreams following awakening from REM sleep. Four left-hemisphere aphasia and two right-hemisphere visuospatial deficit patients reported dreams. The expression of ideas in dreams appeared normal despite the patients' waking difficulties. Given their similar rules of grammar, both dream and phonetic language modalities could emanate from common sites.
D000368:Aged; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000523:psychology; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000523:psychology; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D004325:Dreams; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013028:Space Perception