Dreaming without REM sleep

作者：Oudiette Delphine; Dealberto Marie Jose; Uguccioni Ginevra; Golmard Jean Louis; Merino Andreu Milagros; Tafti Mehdi; Garma Lucile; Schwartz Sophie; Arnulf Isabelle^*

来源：Consciousness and Cognition, 2012, 21(3): 1129-1140.

DOI：10.1016/j.concog.2012.04.010

• REM sleep
• Dream
• Non-REM sleep
• Bizarreness
• Clomipramine
• Antidepressant
• Dream content analysis
• Covert REM sleep
• Polysomnography

To test whether mental activities collected from non-REM sleep are influenced by REM sleep, we suppressed REM sleep using clomipramine 50 mg (an antidepressant) or placebo in the evening, in a double blind cross-over design, in 11 healthy young men. Subjects were awakened every hour and asked about their mental activity. The marked (81%, range 39-98%) REM-sleep suppression induced by clomipramine did not substantially affect any aspects of dream recall (report length, complexity, bizarreness, pleasantness and self-perception of dream or thought-like mentation). Since long, complex and bizarre dreams persist even after suppressing REM sleep either partially or totally, it suggests that the generation of mental activity during sleep is independent of sleep stage.

• 出版日期2012-9