The Witch in the Waiting Room: A Physician Investigates Paranormal Phenomena in Medicine by Robert S. Bobrow M.D. M.D

Author:Robert S. Bobrow M.D. M.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2008-09-09T03:38:00+00:00

Am I Dreaming?

In the last chapter, I quoted a study, "When Dreams Become Reality," where subjects confused words from their reported dreams with non-dream words selected at random. In a further blurring of the distinction between dreaming and real life (as noted by Solms and Eiser), lesions located in certain parts of the brain cause vivid and frequent dreaming as well as a breakdown of the patient's ability to separate the real from the dreamt. While the mental illness schizophrenia cannot be traced to a specific brain lesion, there is a line of research suggesting that dream processes in these patients can "leak through" into waking life. Their hallucinations can thus be seen as "dreaming while awake." Other research has noted that the more severe is the schizophrenia, the less is the time spent in REM sleep, as if the patients' dreamlike, hallucinatory waking hours somehow satisfy their brains' physiologic need for REM periods.

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