The reason why when we dream we are walking we do not get out of the bed and really walk, or when we dream we are talking to someone we do not really talk, is that neural circuits located in the neighborhood of locus coeruleus, in the pontine tegmentum, inhibit the motoneurons and do not allow the real movements to occur. Although it may happen in any sleep phase, it prevails during the desynchronized phase. J Sleep Res 1993;2:63-9. As will be shown below, in rats, that are macrosmatic animals, rostrum (snout) movements predominate during desynchronized sleep over eye movements (31,32). Lovblad KO, Thomas R, Jakod PM, Scammel T, Bassetti C, Griswold M, et al. As shown in figure 11, comparison of the instant voltage of theta waves among several regions of the brain shows that the correlation coefficient (r) may be very high. Hernndez-Pen R, Ibarra GC, Morgane PJ, Timo-Iaria C. Limbic cholinergic pathways involved in sleep and emotional behavior. Kluger J. World Fed Sleep Res Soc Newsletter 1997;5:22-3. We spend a lot of time sleeping. Theories on the function of REM sleep and dreaming, with which it has a contingent relationship, remain diverse. WebThe leading theory of dreaming in the early decades of this research was the psychoanalytic, which views dreams as highly meaningful reflections of unconscious mental functioning. The tonic inhibition of motoneurons by circuits in the alphacoeruleus nucleus during desynchronized sleep is mediated by hyperpolarization of their membrane (41-43). Another fancy hypothesis is the one that proposes that we dream to forget, in order to delete "unwanted" information by reverse learning or unlearning (118). Vertes RB, Eastman KE. 69. 13. Braz J Med Biol Res 1996;29:1645-50. Doneshka P, Kehaiyov A. 78. Baust W. Die Phnomenologie des Schlafes. The very essence of dreams is, certainly, memorized information. Muscle atonia during desynchronized sleep is, as stated above, generated in the alpha-coeruleus nucleus and involves both direct and indirect pathways that inhibit the motoneurons. 87. Simes CA, Valle AC, Timo-Iaria C. Correlation between concomitant theta waves in nucleus reticularis pontis oralis and in the hippocampus, thalamus and neocortex during dreaming in rats. In non-human animals the report regarding dreams is obviously impossible but, fortunately, a dream can be detected in both humans and other species by analyzing its motor, vegetative and electrophysiological manifestations, as will be described below. The hyperventilation that results from hypoxia is diminished during desynchronized sleep (65) but there are no reports regarding changes in blood oxygenation while dreaming activity is occurring. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. During wakefulness such periods in rats are concomitant with short but complete immobilization, which is well known to occur when a high degree of attention is being directed to some external object. Not only theta waves do occur in the cerebellar cortex during desynchronized sleep but also spindles and delta waves are found in this organ in synchronized sleep, just as in neocortical areas. Arch Gen Psychiat 1966;14:238-48. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Xenophanes, nearly 2,400 years ago, were opposed to the prevailing view of the phantastikon, that is, mystic apparitions, and to the premonitory character of dreams as their main characteristics. ), Brainstem Mechanisms of Behavior. Role of pontine tegmentum for locomotor control in mesencephalic cat. Considering dreams as hallucinations, Hernndez-Pen (1966) theorized that they are possible because the system responsible for wakefulness is inactivated during sleep, releasing memory tracings which are brought to consciousness. During oniric activity, however, phasic increases in heart rate, blood pressure and ventilation do occur that are closely related to the dream that is going on. activation-synthesis. According to Mancia (1995), the brain "produces dreams" as "a symbolic process of elaborating, interpreting and reorganizing in narrative sequences all the material accumulated in the memory during waking hours". Baldissera F, Broggi G. An analysis of potential changes in the spinal cord during desynchronized sleep. 128. Braun AR, Balkin TJ, Wesenten NJ, Carson RE, Varga M, Baldwin P, et al. WebPsychoanalytic theory of dream: Advanced by Freud, the psychoanalytic theory of dream stands as the most valid and fundamental among all the theories of dream. 119. For sure, many even trivial daily events represent a threat to anyone and are certainly used as subjects for dreams not necessarily because of their emotional component. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies 94. News Physiol Sci 1998;13:91-7. 129. In ancient Greece, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle discussed about the meaning of dreams, concluding that the prevailing mistic and mythic concepts about them were incorrect. Editor-translator: Gallop, D., Aris & Phillips Ltd., Warminster, England 1991. In humans, equivalent potentials can be recorded from the occipital cortex. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1963. Arch Ital Biol 1963;101:648-68. Progr Neurobiol 1984;22:241-88. Researchers working on dream usually do not believe that dreaming may occur in non-human animals, probably due to religious and philosophical reasons but also to a great mistake, i.e., that dreaming is a high level mental activity, such as doing mathematics, but it is not. 105. Dreams during REM sleep tend to be longer, more vivid, more story-like, and more bizarre than those during NREM sleep. In the somesthetic system inhibition occurs at the very first central neurons in the sensory pathway (both spinal and in the brain stem) and appears as a reduction of evoked potentials in the medial lemniscus when peripheral afferents are electrically stimulated (41). Proc Natl Acad Sci 1989;86:8737-41. Forebrain activation in REM sleep: an FDG, PET study. Webanalyzing dreams. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1990;76:388-99. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1978. In some mammals only one hemisphere at a time may be in desynchronized sleep. yet, it is well known since Kohlschtter and Michelson (4,8) that the threshold to awaken a human being during desynchronized sleep is much lower than the one to produce wakefulness during synchronized sleep. Since evoking visual reminiscences during wakefulness and the building up of dreams with visual information are dependent on the visual cortex, both facts can be correlated. Ergebn. The authors concluded that the correlation they found was probably involved in memory consolidation but such coincidence may indicate that during dreaming memorized information is being revoked to integrate a given dreaming pattern. When any part of the brain programs a behavior it sends the program to the cerebellum. Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-cyle an (H2O)-O-15 PET study. Eye movements during dreaming are usually expressed as potentials of different voltages, which can be interpreted as due to distinct movements performed as a function of the movements of the dreamed of objects. J Neurophysiol 1964;27:152-71. In: Antrobus, J.S. Essential manifestations of dreaming are the conscious experience, the electrophysiological, the motor and the vegetative expression of oniric behaviors in humans as well as in other animals. Nature 1989;304:111-4. Aristotle (1), who had carefully observed several animal species while asleep, noticed that movements of several of their body parts were quite similar to those performed by humans during dreaming. Pontine cholinergic neurons show fos-like immunoreactivity associated with cholinergically induced REM sleep. Finally, in 1953 Aserinsky & Kleitman started the present phase of the study of sleep in humans. Absence of ponto-geniculo-occipital (PGO) spikes in rats. Figure 9 illustrates an episode of olfactory and vibrissal movements. Arch Ital Biol 1969;107:175-216. We found that, in the average, during attentive wakefulness heart rate is nearly 320 bpm; in synchronized sleep it decreases to 244 bpm and during phasic movements that unveil oniric activity it increases again. Exp Brain Res 1989;74:11-23. World Fed Sleep Res Soc Newsletter 1997;5:20-1. Jouvet M. Neurophysiology of the states of sleep. They also argue that even "expensive and cumbersome evoked potential and computer averaging approaches have not helped us to analyze and compare desynchronized sleep physiology with that of waking in an effective way". Confrontations Psychiatriques 1986;27:153-81. De Sanctis S. I Sogni e il Sonno. 125. ", "As to the oviparous creatures, it is obvious that they sleep but it is impossible to state that they dream. (1997) found during desynchronized sleep a consistent activation of the pons, midbrain, anterior hypothalamus, caudate and medial prefrontal, caudal orbital, anterior cingulate, parahippocampal and inferior temporal cortices (126). Clin Chest Med 1985;6:563-75. Timo-Iaria C, Negro N, Schmidek WR, Rocha TL, Hoshino K. Phases and states of sleep in the rat. In rats subjected to early desynchronized sleep deprivation, ejaculation was deeply reduced in adulthood (114,115), what is a profound impairment of a very important instinctive behavior. Klein M, Michel F, Jouvet M. tude polygraphique du sommeil chez les oiseaux. These interneurons inhibit motoneurons by means of glycinergic synapses (glycine is a powerful inhibitory neurotransmitter), as shown by Soja et al. Baldissera F, Cesa-Bianchi MG, Mancia M. Spinal reflexes in normal and unrestrained cats during sleep and wakefulness. (1996) and Braun et al. San Diego, 1973. Brain Res 1996;770:192-201. 64. In: Baust, W. Mirmiran M, Van Someren E. The importance of REM sleep for brain maturation. Bourgin P, Escourrou P, Gaultier C, Adrien J. Their data do not depart from modern studies of the same kind. One is that dreams are generated by the activation of neural activity in the brainstem and its signal transmission to the cortex. 11. Later, theta waves were also found in rats during both attentive wakefulness and desynchronized sleep (19,30,31,74-76). Similarly, in rats any kind of sensory stimulation does immediately mobilize sniffing and vibrissal scanning movements. Foulkes (1982) considered that dreams are so easily forgotten because the brain in desynchronized sleep is in a "reflective state". Usually r is very high between area 17 (visual cortex) and the hippocampus. In rats we found similar potentials in the amygdala as related to olfactory dreams, expressed as rostrum movements (32). Carcione A, Santonastaso M, Sferruzza F, Riccardi I. Res Psychother. Such hypothesis is grounded on the following steps. Head jerky movements may reflect vestibular dreams. The result of such conscious identification is a dream. If the animal is kept alive by forced feeding and is kept warm, in six days frontal desynchronization and theta waves in the other cortical areas reappear and then not only wakefulness is fully recovered but also desynchronized sleep, including oniric activity. 70. Valle AC, Timo-Iaria C, Sameshima K, yamashita R. Theta waves and behavioral manifestations of alertness and dreaming activity in the rat. 59. Bol Inst Est Md Biol Mxico 1962;20:155-64. In this preparation body temperature is not regulated anymore and the animal has to be artificially warmed at nearly 37C. (1999) (126,127,129,130). Mori D, Shik ML, yagodnitsyn AS. Apparently, the main cause of such a reduction of blood pressure and heart rate is the active inhibition of the baroreceptor reflexes during this phase of sleep. Brain Res 1967;6:706-15. However, during desynchronized sleep it was drastically reduced, being entirely inhibited for most of the time. Figure 6 shows an increase in heart rate from 150 bpm to 180 bpm (the latter is the normal heart rate during resting wakefulness in this species), coinciding with the peak of eye movements. Peyrethon J, Dusan-Peyrethon D. tude polygraphique du cycle veille-sommeil chez trois genres de rptiles. Selective deactivation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has been found in desynchronized sleep. In addition, zif-268 is up-regulated in several novelty or learning behavioral paradigms, including two-way active avoidance (104), brightness discrimination (105), and enriched environment exposure (106). Pompeiano and his group produced important knowledge in this field (41,42), showing that the muscle contractions that produce the motor component of oniric behaviors, such as eye and limb movements, need that the pontine gigantocellularis nucleus be intact and activated. Matsuyama K, Kobaysahi y, Takakusaki M, Mosi S, Kimuta H. Termination mode and branching patterns of reticuloreticular and reticulospinal fibers of the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis in the cat: an anterograde PHA-L tracing study. Respiratory frequency decreases during the entire sleep cycle but is phasically activated during dreaming because it is a vegetative function that has to be increased in any behavior, including the oniric ones. "Insects are also creatures that do sleep, so much so that they can be seen resting with no movements whatsoever. Psychosomat Med 1975;37:147-59. Regional cerebral glucose metabolic rate in human sleep assessed by positron emission tomography. Despite the fact that many studies have found that mental activity during wakefulness differs from that during dreaming, the mechanisms involved in both may differ as to the degree of control over the release and combination of memorized information in wakefulness and in desynchronized sleep. In fact, all the phases of wakefulness and sleep, including desynchronized sleep, occur in the cerebellar cortex. Its is noteworthy that Weed & Halam's data, published in 1896, are close to those reported by Rechtschaffen & Buchignani in 1992, which was calculated as the mean of the average of seven different studies published by other authors (40). Much experimental work is needed before a convincing function can be ascribed to the fascinating physiological phenomenon that is dreaming. In cats, Baust (1971) recorded tachycardia starting 1 or 2 seconds before eye movements appear (38). Neurosc Biobehav Rev 1992;16:372-97. Winson J. Some peculiarities of the dreams of patients with vestibular diseases. Erlbaum 1992. As such, this explanation may be interpreted as a way of doing something that we should never be allowed to do without paying for it. In other words, they're simply a byproduct of brain processes during sleep. In cats, cortical electro-oscillograms are also desynchronized but in the hippocampus theta waves (that will be later described) predominate. Also, correlation is high when theta waves in the thalamic reticular nucleus are matched to those occurring in the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis. From the spinal cord Marini (1997) recorded slow (delta) regularly oscillating waves during desynchronized sleep (81), which may be related to activation of spinal neurons during dreaming. Science 1953;118:273-4. When a dream has a verbal content the tongue, lips and other facial muscles do contract and if the dream is deambulatory several lower limb muscles do contract, expressing the behavior triggered by the imagined walking. The command character of theta waves is probably the reason why such potentials occur almost simultaneously in different brain structures. Oswald I. Brain activity during this time keeps us 102. Nucleus reticularis pontis oralis is thought to contain the generator of theta rhythm (78,79) and is known to send direct efferents to the hippocampus and the cerebellar cortex, where we found theta waves that correlate closely with those in the hippocampus (Valle, Kubo, Iwamoto & Timo-Iaria, in preparation for publication). At the age between 7 and 9 years Foulkes' subjects produced much more consistent narrations of the dream content, as should be expected (24). Thanks to the extraordinary possibilities of functional connections that take place in the brain when the "basic circuitries of our personality are programmed", dreams do contribute to shape new solutions for new problems. Several theories claim that dreaming is a random by-product of REM sleep physiology and that it does not serve any natural function. 6. the apparitions. De Sanctis, in 1899, in his book I Sogni, Studi Clinici ed Psicologici di un Alienista (Dreams, Clinical and Psychological Studies of a Psychiatrist), cites no less than 323 articles and books dealing with dreams, which proves that the objective study of dreams did not start during the middle of the 20th century, as is usually taken for granted (4). Table 1 shows the results of some of such studies, including our data concerning nearly 2,000 dreaming episodes recorded from rats. Rothschuch KR. Rostrum movements in desynchronized sleep as a prevalent manifestation of dreaming activity in Wistar rats. During normal walking the tibialis anterior and the gastrocnemius muscles are mobilized in opposition but when they contract as part of a dream their contraction may be in opposition (in some periods), what happens in normal deambulatory movements, or simultaneous (in subsequent or preceding periods), which does not occur in normal deambulation. Disclaimer. Accessibility Xerxes, in fact, had discovered an important aspect of dreams but his oracle discarded such an explanation, in favor of the mystic one. J Neurophysiol 1954;17:532-57. 122. Brainstem control of the events of REM sleep. Behav Brain Res 1995;69:203-6. 117. The meaning of dreams. Does early night REM dream content reliably reflect presleep state of mind? 5. In: C. Guilleminaut, W. C. Dement and P. Passouant (eds.) The authors suggest that such a disturbance of reproduction occurs because desynchronized sleep (and consequently dreaming) was prevented to occur normally in infancy but the functional meaning of this interesting phenomenon. Fortunately, thanks to this peculiar incomplete motoneuron inhibition we are able to record movements occurring in both humans and non-human animals and thus infer the presence of dreams. Vertes RP. It seems that not only humans but also dogs, cows, sheep and goats and the entire family of four-legged viviparous animals do dream. However, in the animals subjected to a rich-environment zif-268 increased significantly from synchronized to desynchronized sleep but decreased from wakefulness to synchronized sleep. 97. J Physiol (London) 1993;461:549-63. No wonder that most dreams in humans have a visual component, explaining the reason why eye movements occur in any kind of dream, alone or as part of non-visual dreams. Kohyama T, Hori A, Sato T, Nikami T, yamaki T, Veda S. Changes in cerebral blood flow velocity in healthy young men during overnight sleep and while awake. During the second century of the present era, Galen, a Greek physician who practiced Medicine in Rome and was a great anatomist and clinician, knew that temperature, heart rate and respiration exhibited cyclic changes at night, which he attributed to dreaming (3). This is specially true as to bees, that at night do interrupt their hum, "even if they are exposed to the light of a lantern". The previous station of these nuclei is the interpeduncular nucleus, whose stimulation with carbachol caused sleep within nearly 30 seconds. While humans dream around 100 minutes every night, cats exhibit signs of dreaming during nearly 200 minutes per day. The gamma-alpha loop has been shown to play no role in producing the movements that characterize dreaming. On Sleep and Dreams. Since memorized information is the basic material to build up dreams, it is understandable that many (but not all) dreams are threatening and emotionally highly charged (111). As mentioned above, Plato, preceding by twenty four centuries one of the dogmas of psychoanalysis, believed that "forbidden" dreams, such as incestuous or criminal dreams, were only a way of doing incestual sex or killing someone without punishment. 111. 2009 Nov;10(11):803-13. doi: 10.1038/nrn2716. Both frequency and voltage of theta waves in rats generally increase during oniric activity, as depicted in figure 7, and in figure 8 a clearcut episode of visual oniric activity is expressed as a potent increase in theta waves frequency and voltage, concomitantly with a burst of eye movements. An official website of the United States government. By visually examining the amplitude of theta waves in these examples it seems they vary at random but when the instant variation of voltage is plotted as a function of time, a regular variation appears during the phasic movements (figure 10). Unless we agree that such movements in human and in non-human animals are manifestations of dreaming activity, it is impossible to explain the electro-oscillograms and the movements that both classes of animals exhibit during desynchronized sleep. National Library of Medicine Descending projections from the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum to the paramedian reticular nucleus of the caudal medulla in the cat. Heart rate decreases down to nearly 150 bpm 1 or 2 seconds following the cessation of eye movements. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1955:673-690. Miyauchi S, Takino R, Fukuda H, Torii S. Electrophysiological evidence for dreaming. This neural activity is then interpreted by the brain as an internal activity. His personal oracle, however, disagreed and convinced him that his dreams were warnings from the gods. Such high values of r may mean that theta waves arrive in such areas almost synchronously, coming from some other sites in the central nervous system. 12. Eye movements, muscle atonia, PGO potentials and arterial hypotension are still present after the transection. In decerebrate cats eye movements do occur and are integrated below the midbrain (67,95). cognitive development. 20. Physiol Behav 1972;8:363-71. Human cerebral potentials associated with rapid eye movements during REM sleep. The latter are absolutely necessary for any neural activity to occur, inasmuch as the oxygen required by the nervous system amounts to 20% of the total oxygen consumption (near ten times as much as the average of the body as a whole). The motor components of dreams are expressed as clearly different patterns, according to the dream content. The cycle of sleep in the rat (preliminary report). Depression of electrically induced reflexes (H- reflexes) in man during low voltage EEG sleep. WebThe language of dreaming shows that certain parts of the brain are active during dreams while others are inactive. Functional neuroanatomy of human rapid-eye-movement sleep and dreaming. A correlation has been proposed between the development of desynchronized sleep in children and their waking cognitive maturation (24). Often eye movements are preceded in the electroencephalogram by small sawthoot-waves that superimpose on desynchronized potentials (figure 3). 72. 73. In cats, during movements related to dreams such hyperpolarization is reinforced by presynaptic inhibition of afferents to motoneurons. Hobson, Pace-Schott & Stickgold (2000) do not take into consideration that a single object or a brief key fact or image occurring in the day preceding a given dream may be enough to trigger an entire dreamed "story" related to it (120). Krueger JM, Obl F. A neuronal group theory of sleep function. It seems that a systematic investigation regarding the threshold to different types of stimulation is still lacking and should be performed, in order to establish which kinds of stimulation and effective thresholds are able to awaken humans and non-humans during sleep. Jouvet M. Programmation gntique itrative et sommeil paradoxal. These authors argue that despite the marked suppression of desynchronized sleep provoked by tricyclic antidepressants neither selective serotonine reuptake inhibitors and mono-amino-oxydase nor learning and memory are disrupted. It may be more appropriate to explain the latter authors' results by reasoning that dreams are originated in memorized information and are, accordingly, closely related to events occurring before sleep. De Sanctis, whose main research on sleep was the incorporation of sensory stimulation into dreams, states in his book that "by measuring the pulse and observing the movements in humans and other animals during sleep it is possible to detect the occurrence of dreaming and sometimes even to guess the dream content". Our hypothesis is that the cerebellum is involved in overall corrections of the components of all kinds of behavior, including sleep. Brain Res Bull 1992;28:479-84. The number of PGO potentials undergoes a high increase after the frontal ablation, which is suggestive of a tonic inhibition of these potentials by the frontal cortex. Plato, despite his logical view of dreams, antecipated by 24 centuries one of the dogmas of psychoanalysis, stating that the dreams with a sexual background, mainly those with an incestuous content, and those in which the dreamer attacked or even killed someone, did, in fact, represent occult wishes that only could be fulfilled without punishment as an oniric experience. The function of dreaming Theories on the function of REM sleep and dreaming, with which it has a contingent relationship, remain diverse. They include facilitation of memory storage, reverse learning, anatomical and functional brain maturation, catecholamine restoration, psychoanalytical (wish fulfilment or otherwise). It i Epub 2009 Oct 1. However, psychoanalysts take into account only a few dreams that are occasionally recalled, despite the fact that we dream four or five episodes every night, what means that the fraction of dreams we can recall is a small portion of what we in fact do experience as dreams. Jouvet M. Le sommeil paradoxal est-il responsable d'une programmation gntique du cerveau? WebAbstract. Behav Brain Res 1997;84:109-16. In: The Neuropsychology of Sleep and Dreaming, Antrobus, J. S. & Bertini, M. Science 1987;238:797-9. Desynchronized sleep can be provoked by carbachol infusion in the pontine reticular formation (94). WebWhen a person entered rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, it activates circuits within the brain stem. Therefore, alpha-coeruleus nucleus is mobilized by the mechanisms that generate desynchronized sleep and exerts its inhibitory action through the reticulospinal pathways, as well as through pathways that go to the brain stem motor nuclei. Important dream theories are Freud's interpretation of dreams, 13 Loomis AL, Harvey DN, Hobart GA. Distribution of disturbance patterns in the human electroencephalogram, with special reference to sleep. Arch Ital Biol 1965;103:25-44. It is well known that during desynchronized sleep the pupil undergoes an increase in diameter (midriasis), which is not produced by direct sympathetic activation but rather to parasympathetic inactivation, that overcomes the tonic pupillary constrictor activity of the parasympathetic system during synchronized sleep. Cien Cult 1995;47:221-34. Arch Ital Biol 1965;103:369-96. Oka T, Iwakiri H, Mori S. Pontine-induced generalized suppression of postural muscle tone in a reflexively standing acute decerebrate cat. Jouvet M, Michel F, Courjon J. Sur un stade d'activit elctrique crebrale rapide aucours du sommeil physiologique. Changes in hippocampal gene expression associated with the induction of long-term potentiation. Valle AC, Pellarin L, Timo-Iaria C. Oniric patterns in the rat. Physiol Behav 1974;12:293-5. The oscillation of the sleep depth as cycles, as is well known presently, is quite clear in this figure. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1997;102:125-31. 14. Timo-Iaria C, Valle AC. The waking level of aminergic modulation falls to 50% during synchronized sleep and to nearly zero in desynchronized sleep (121,122). A powerful defensive behavior, the withdrawal "reflex" (or retraction behavior, as we prefer to call it), is also completely inhibited during this phase of sleep. In cats desynchronized sleep appears also as tonic cortical desynchronization (figure 3) but in the hippocampus, septal area and amygdala theta waves predominate, as in rats and rabbits. 112. Green JD, Arduini A. Hippocampal activity in arousal. 33. A nerve growth factor-induced gene encodes a possible trancriptional regulatory factor. 56. Shiromani PJ, Lai yy, Siegel JM. Front Neurol. 22. It is interesting that the representation of animals in dreams of infants is quite conspicuous. 31. 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