title: Finding the stuff that dreams are made of.
abstract: The scientific study of dreams has had a long but tortured history. While the discovery of REM sleep in 1953 and its strong correlation with dreaming led to a renewed hope that the study of dreaming could be moved to a solidly scientific and physiological base, such studies have provided only mixed success. In 1977, Hobson and McCarley proposed the activation-synthesis model for dream construction based on the physiological features of REM sleep, but since then the field has shown surprisingly little progress.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. robert_stickgold@hms.harvard.edu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stickgold
mesh_terms: D004325:Dreams / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*