title: What are the memory sources of dreaming?
abstract: Investigators since Freud have appreciated that memories of the people, places, activities and emotions of daily life are reflected in dreams but are typically so fragmented that their predictability is nil. The mechanisms that translate such memories into dream images remain largely unknown. New research targeting relationships between dreaming, memory and the hippocampus is producing a new theory to explain how, why and when we dream of waking life events.
authors.affiliation: Dream and Nightmare Laboratory, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, 5400 Blvd Gouin Ouest, Montréal, Québec, Canada H4J 1C5. tore.nielsen@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Tore A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stenstrom
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004325:Dreams / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology