60. 34. An official website of the United States government. During REM sleep, several physiological changes also take place. The same holds true for animals that live in water, such as fishes, molusks, crustacea and other similar animals; it is impossible to invoke as a proof that they do sleep the shutting of their eyes, inasmuch as they do not have eyelids but it is obvious that they periodically do rest, immobile, what perhaps does explain why at night their predators attack them heavily and devour them. In nocturnal macrosmatic animals, olfaction is the predominant sensory channel and their vibrissae are usually very long, to detect the presence of objects at relatively large distances. A regular oscillation modulates the amplitude of the potentials. 108. J Neurophysiol 1964;27:152-71. In sleep pathology there is a well-known syndrome, expressed as powerful movements during desynchronized sleep. Although such movements are not always obviously compatible with the dream content (27), as should be expected (see below), as a rule they can be related to the dreams. Clin Chest Med 1985;6:563-75. Steriade M, McCarley RW. Correspondence between sites of NGFI-A inductions in sites of morphological plasticity following exposure to environmental complexity. Neurosc Res 1993;17:181-202. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1996;42:123-7. Penile erection, that also occurs in monkeys, is present during desynchronized (paradoxical or REMsleep) but it is not necessarily linked to erotic dreams. Evarts EV. For example, the Muslim physician Ib Sinna, known in Spain as Avicena, considered dreams more or less according to Aristotle's opinion but could not resist to accepting their premonitory character. Vertes RP. Rerum Natura, I et II. He properly related such dreams to his concern with that important war. WebDream theories attempt to inform us of our deeper psychological states and shed light on the function of our dreams. Roussy F, Camirand C, Foulkes D, De Koninck J, Loftis M, Kerr NH. Phenomenal dream content, however, is not as disorganized as such views imply. Mori S, Matysuyama K, Kohyama J, Kobayashi y, Takakusaki K. Neuronal constituents of postural and locomotor control systems and their interactions in cats. 81. 24. 76. The previous station of these nuclei is the interpeduncular nucleus, whose stimulation with carbachol caused sleep within nearly 30 seconds. During dreaming, however, it is well known that both heart rate and blood pressure undergo short duration increases (as related to the decreased values), which are most likely linked to the oniric behavior. 126. Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! 49. 123. In humans, both reflex activities are also deeply inhibited during desynchronized sleep. Cole AJ, Saffen DW, Baraban JM, Worley PF. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the Gottesmann C. Theta rhythm: the brain stem involvement. (36,37) have recorded contraction of the tympanic muscles (stapedius and tensor tympani) during human sleep. 96. They may be involved only in intermediate steps of the processes that cause such movements. FOIA 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). In addition, blood flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery decreases during synchronized sleep whereas in desynchronized sleep it is similar to that occurring in waking (133). Recordings of the electrical activity of the brain, which we will refer to as electro-oscillograms, reveal specific patterns that express the phases of sleep in several central regions of the brain, including the phase during which most oniric activity takes place, the desynchronized or paradoxical sleep. Reactivation of hippocampal ensemble memories during sleep. Stern W, Forbes WN, Morgane PJ. Hodes R, Dement WC. Recall of dreams is much greater and the report is much more detailed when one is awakened during desynchronized sleep and the stage I of synchronized sleep, right after alpha waves disappear and are replaced by a lower frequency and lower voltage electro-oscillographic pattern (22,23). Raven Press, New york 1981:405-429. In more recent years several approaches confirmed these findings (89). Would you like email updates of new search results? The atonia of myoclonia of active (REM) sleep. Human regional cerebral blood flow during rapid eye movement sleep. However, we all know that many dreams are not emotional at all. Inasmuch as dreaming seems to occur in most birds and mammals, it is unlikely that it has no function in the animal organism. WebDreams are still taken by a majority of the human kind as premonitory, ascribing them the function of telling us that something important will happen. Dement WC. J Neurosci 1995;15:3500-8. Hernndez-Pen R. A neurophysiologic model of dreams and hallucinations. The Psychology of Dreaming. 128. When a dream is a nightmare, both motor and vegetative events may be very intense. 21. 85. The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1967;45:352-423. 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. The other is that dreams are caused by forebrain activation by dopamine. 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. 130. In: M. C. Hepp-Reymond & G. Marini (eds.) When only one side of the reticular formation is also destroyed, the same pattern of recovery does occur; if the other side of the reticular formation is also destroyed after two or three weeks, recovery of wakefulness and desynchronized sleep is even faster than when both sides are lesioned at the same time. After transection of the brain stem at the pontomesencephalic transition, rostrally to locus coeruleus, desynchronized sleep still occurs below the transection (10,90-93). Sleep 1999;22:409-18. Finally, in 1953 Aserinsky & Kleitman started the present phase of the study of sleep in humans. In rats bilateral lesion of the midbrain reticular formation is followed by a long lasting state of synchronized sleep, with predominance of phase III (Timo-Iaria, Assumpo & Bernardi, unpublished observations). Stimulus response theory of dream: The stimulus response theory which existed prior to Freud is based upon the associationistic stimulus response view. This theory stresses the relationship between brain changes during sleep and changes in perceptual efficiency. Some disturbing stimuli force activity into one portion of the cerebral cortex. The meaning of dreams. Crick F, Mitchison G. The function of dream sleep. Salivary, gastric, enteric, pancreatic and billiary secretion and contraction of the smooth muscle of the gastrointestinal viscera are specific vegetative components of feeding behavior, as well as secretion of luteotropic hormone, increase in cavernous blood pressure and vaginal blood flow and several other endocrine adjustments are part and characteristic of sexual behavior. Soja PJ, Lopez-Rodriguez F, Morales FR, Chase MH. & Bertini, M. 118. 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. Hobson JA. 36. The postynaptic inhibitory control of lumbar motoneurons during the atonia of active sleep: effect of strychnine on motoneuron properties. "Dreams are not ghosts (phantasmata), since they are closely related to the events of the previous day". Problems with Physiological function Theory This does 122. It has, however, been utilized with a great success in sleep studies. Chaudhuri A. Neural activity mapping with inducible transcription factors. Often eye movements are preceded in the electroencephalogram by small sawthoot-waves that superimpose on desynchronized potentials (figure 3). The tonic inhibition of motoneurons by circuits in the alphacoeruleus nucleus during desynchronized sleep is mediated by hyperpolarization of their membrane (41-43). Oswald I. Foulkes D. A cognitive-psychological model of REM dream production. Two major theories have been proposed regarding the neural circuits involved in dreaming. 48. When the rat moves the head, for example (which may indicate a vestibular dream), heart rate goes up and may be as high as 330 bpm, similar to that occurring during attentive behavior. 18. Important dream theories are Freud's interpretation of dreams, What is the Nikolaev E, Kaminska B, Tischmeyer W, Matthies E, Kaczmarek L. Induction of expression of genes encoding transcription factors in the rat brain elicited by behavioral training. Rados R, Cartwright RD. Solms M. Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms. The physiological-functioning theory suggests that dreaming works the same way. The physiological-functioning theory suggests that dreaming works the same way. Villablanca J. Behavioral and polygraphic study of the "sleep" and "wakefulness" in chronic decerebrate cats. Theta waves, discovered by Jung and Kornmller in 1938 (72), were extensively studied by Green & Arduini (73), who proved they are related to arousal. Dreams and Nightmares in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Review. In: The Neuropsychology of Sleep and Dreaming, Antrobus, J. S. & Bertini, M. 97. In: Baust, W. Brain Res 1967;5:221-35. Dreaming 1996;6:121-30. Darwin C. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. However, considering the high prevalence of dreams during this phase it should be more appropriately named oniric phase of sleep. Exploring the neural correlates of dream phenomenology and altered states of consciousness during sleep. 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. Moruzzi G. Sleep and instinctive behavior. Brain Res 1985;327:362-6. 43. Timo-Iaria C, yamashita R, Hoshino K, Sousa-Melo A. 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. Physiological-functioning theor y was supported in a 2009 paper written by J. Allan Pompeiano O. Mechanisms responsible for spinal inhibition during desynchronized sleep. 13. 2009 Nov;10(11):803-13. doi: 10.1038/nrn2716. When they sleep, fishes keep quiet, with no apparent movements, and then they can be easily fished with a hand.". Theories on the function of REM sleep and dreaming, with which it has a contingent relationship, remain diverse. doi: 10.1093/nc/nix009. At the end of the 19th century several authors published on oniric activity. Brain 1997;120:1173-97. Valle AC, Timo-Iaria C, Sameshima K, yamashita R. Theta waves and behavioral manifestations of alertness and dreaming activity in the rat. J Neurophysiol 1954;17:532-57. This may well reflect auditory dreams, as has been found in humans (36,37). C R S Soc Biol (Paris) 1964;158:99-103. J Physiol (Paris) 1984;79:365-74. The cycle of sleep in the rat (preliminary report). University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London edition 1985. 83. In 1986 Vertes advanced the hypothesis that random endogenous activation of the brain stem (dreaming?) Such patterns mimic oniric eye movements, which may occur in functional coincidence or not with the visual scenes that are dreamed of. Takakusaki K, Ohta y, Mori S. Single medullary reticulospinal neurons exert postsynaptic inhibitory effects via inhibitory interneurons upon alpha-motoneurons innervating cat hindlimb muscles. Hippocrates and Alkmaeon, who discovered that the mind is in the brain, not in the heart, knew that dreams were originated in the brain. Brain Res 1982;233:287-98. Analysis of the electro-oscillograms yields extremely relevant information that can be correlated with movements and changes in heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. Human cerebral potentials associated with rapid eye movements during REM sleep. Functional neuroanatomy of human rapid-eye-movement sleep and dreaming. WebExplanation of Physiological function theory This may be true, but it does not explain why we experience meaningful dreams Critical considerations of Physiological function In 1896 Weed & Halam (4) published the first quantification of dreams content. Maquet P, Peters JM, Aerts J, Delfiore G, Degueldre C, Luxen A, et al. Rapid increase of an immediate early gene messenger RNA in hippocampal neurons by synaptic NMDA receptor activation. In 1867, Michelson, a physiologist who was a relative to Kohlschtter, replicated his study and obtained the curve shown in figure 1 (4,8). Sleep patterns during rearing under different environmental conditions in juveline rats. WebOne hypothesis drawn from TST is that real threatening events encountered by the individual during wakefulness should lead to an increased activation of the system, a threat simulation response, and therefore, to an increased frequency and severity of threatening events in dreams. The 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. Considering that most dreams in rats (31,32) are related to olfaction, not to vision, potentials that resemble PGOs in the amygdala of this animal species should also be taken as signs of dreaming rather than PGOs. Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-cyle an (H2O)-O-15 PET study. A related point of view was put forward by Krueger & Obal (1993), who proposed that, on the basis of use-dependent synaptic stabilization, the neuronal assembly not activated during wakefulness will be activated during sleep, to prevent it from atrophy (117). Baldissera F, Cesa-Bianchi MG, Mancia M. Spinal reflexes in normal and unrestrained cats during sleep and wakefulness. The preferential eye movements direction may be related to the dream content and, perhaps, as such also to hemispheric dominance but it should always be taken into consideration that any movement originated by a dream is always faulty, otherwise we would perform normal behaviors during a dream, what does not happen due to the inhibition of motoneurons. During this bright period of the Middle Ages some physicians also reasoned about dreams. Functional neuroanatomy of human rapid-eye-movement sleep and dreaming. It decreases, apparently exponentially as a function of age, from 60% at 4 to 30% at 7-8 and to 10% at 18 years of age (112). C R Soc Biol (Paris) 1938;128:533-9. Exp Brain Res 1989;74:11-23. Changes in neuronal activity in association cortex of the cat in relation to sleep and wakefulness. 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). Physiology and Psychology. 37. Electrophysiological manifestations of wakefulness and desynchronized sleep in the rat. ), Ermdung, Schlaf un Traum, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Sttutgart 1971:123-172. 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). 78. Physiol Behav 1970;5:402-7. Oka T, Iwakiri H, Mori S. Pontine-induced generalized suppression of postural muscle tone in a reflexively standing acute decerebrate cat. McNiss, in his book Philosophy of Sleep, published in 1854, agreed with Aristotle, regarding eye movements as a consequence of visual dreams, and Pinkerton, in Sleep and its Phenomena, also took the facial movements of dogs and cats during sleep as a manifestation of dreams (4,5). Santos LM, Valle AC, Sameshima K, Silva MTP, Timo-Iaria C. A linear relationship between theta waves frequency and the speed of learning in rats. 89. Experientia 1964;20:1-3. 1. The case against memory consolidation in REM sleep. Carcione A, Santonastaso M, Sferruzza F, Riccardi I. Res Psychother. Sakai K, Sastre JP, Salvert D, Touret M, Toyama M, Jouvet M. Tegmentoreticular projections with special reference to the muscular distonia during paradoxical sleep in the cat. Generation of sleep is reasonably well known but not that of dreaming. Further developments in neurobiological research, including lesion and brain imaging studies, have established a clearer view of the functional neuroanatomy of REM sleep and dreaming. 41. 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. During the medieval era in Spain, by then the very cultural center of Europe (probably of the entire world), and mainly in the 13th century, some Muslim Arabs and Jewish rabis, centered in Cordoba rediscovered the Greek literature, that had been concealed by early Christianism, and translated all that important work into Latin, Arabic and Hebraic. Such electrophysiological studies demonstrate that the abovementioned sites in the central nervous system are involved in the oniric movements but they do not prove that such structures generate them. Science 1966;153:206-8. 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. Brain Res 1970;19:263-75. During the nineteenth century several physiologists and neuropsychiatrists tried to understand the mechanisms and meaning of dreams. Petersohn D, Schoch S, Brinkmann DR, Thiel G. The human synapsin II gene promoter. 125. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help In fact, we ignore almost completely why we dream. Does early night REM dream content reliably reflect presleep state of mind? 124. With Darwin (1965), we are fully convinced that "at least birds and mammals do dream" (6). 55. His personal oracle, however, disagreed and convinced him that his dreams were warnings from the gods. Interestingly enough, if body temperature in cats subjected to pontomesencephalic transection is lowered, the amount of desynchronized sleep increases. Nat Rev Neurosci. Moruzzi's coined the name desynchronized sleep, which we prefer, because in humans desynchronization is the main electrophysiological marker of this phase. They include facilitation of memory storage, Lucrce. C R Soc Biol (Paris) 1959;153:1024-8. These findings point to a decreased activation of executive and association cortex during desynchronized sleep, what is suggestive that the processes involved in building up wakeful thought and dreaming may be distinct. Later, theta waves were also found in rats during both attentive wakefulness and desynchronized sleep (19,30,31,74-76). In 1963 we found that cholinergic stimulation of a descending pathway (within Nauta's limbic-mesencephalic system) causes sleep (33). Later research argues that dreams are physiological, beginning with random electrical impulses deep within the brain stem. The 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. With developments in understanding of the neurophysiology of REM sleep, new theories of dreaming were proposed. Another change of the electro-oscillograms we disclosed in rats by carefully analyzing their time-course while a dream is on (as well as during attentive wakefulness) is the presence of short periods of desynchronization that interrupt or superimpose on theta waves. 58. Time course of foslike immunoreactivity associated with cholinergically induced REM sleep. Arch Gen Psychiat 1966;14:238-48. Exptl Neurol 1963;8:93-111. Arch Ital Biol 1965;103:369-96. Jouvet M. The role of monoamines and acetylcholine-containing neurons in the regulation of the sleep-waking cycle. 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. We hypothetize that theta waves are commanding signals that recruit in due sequence the circuits that generate wakefulness and desynchronized sleep and their components; their frequency and voltage generally increase in parallel with heart rate and intensity of movements (Valle & Timo-Iaria, unpublished results). Arch Psychiat Nervenkrankh 1938;109:1-17. Sleeping and Waking. (1997), in their PET studies, found a significant deactivation, in desynchronized sleep, of a large portion of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, what was found also by Madsen et al. Web5 Theories on dreaming . Kluger J. Jouvet M. Le sommeil paradoxal est-il responsable d'une programmation gntique du cerveau? 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. Nature, 2002, submitted. It seems that not only humans but also dogs, cows, sheep and goats and the entire family of four-legged viviparous animals do dream. The dream between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. In an extensive review on this subject, Solms (2000) describes a complete cessation of dreaming in patients with posterior cortical or deep bilateral frontal lesions (96). As any neural information, it has to be analyzed, so that the nervous impulses, which carry it be decoded and integrated as a specific neural configuration, that contains all the information released (or revoked) from the mnemonic archives. 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. As any information consciously identified, a dream triggers a specific behavior, that we call an oniric behavior. Heiss W-D, Pawlik G, Herholz K, Wagner R, Weinhard K. Regional cerebral glucose metabolism in man during wakefulness, sleep, and dreaming. The main purpose of experimental decerebration is to study the mechanisms of the fundamental posture, that is, the standing posture. 98. Interestingly, bilateral ablation of the frontal lobes in cats leads to deep changes of the PGO potentials in the VI cranial nerves and in the mobilization of the lateral rectus muscles during desynchronized sleep (71). Head jerky movements may reflect vestibular dreams. Elsevier Publishing Company Amsterdam, 1962. San Diego, 1973. Pompeiano O. As a prevailing concept even today, dreams were considered premonitory, messages from the dead and mystical warnings. In humans, Hansotia and colleagues (34) found in humans, in accordance with our own observations in rats and cats, that oniric eye movements may be directed to one side or the other, not exclusively to one side, as stated by Vanni-Mercier and co-workers (29). It would appear that the intense activation of desynchronized sleep must overcome this demodulation and persist into subsequent waking, in order for very vivid dreams to be remembered. This allows us to see the irrational as a normal event, while emotional processing and symbolic identities can be explored. Our hypothesis is that the cerebellum is involved in overall corrections of the components of all kinds of behavior, including sleep. 62. Role of pontine tegmentum for locomotor control in mesencephalic cat. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. In humans the electro-oscillograms during desynchronized sleep are expressed as overall cortical desynchronization, whence the adequacy of the name created by Moruzzi, desynchronized sleep. (ed. Much experimental work is needed before a convincing function can be ascribed to the fascinating physiological phenomenon that is dreaming. J Cerebr Blood Flow Metab 1991;11:502-7. Rechtschaffen A, Buchignani C. The visual appearance of dreams. Physiol Rev 1967;47:117-77. 32. Van de Castle RL. Such movements may take the sleeper to fall off the bed. Although related to the information fluxogram displayed in figure 2 of the present review, Hernandez-Pon's process involves the function of participating in "adaptive waking behavior", which does not seem to have a real meaning (136). the apparitions. 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. Brain Develop (Tokyo) 1992;14:109-20. 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). Induction of rapid eye movement sleep by carbachol infusion into the pontine reticular formation of the rat. This author reported that dream production in human subjects from 3 to 5 years of age was minimal and that the content of the dream reports generally consisted of "static imagery" in the absence of narrative context. Contemporary neuroscientific theories often view dreams as epiphenomena, and many of the proposals for their biological function are contradicted by the phenomenology of dreams themselves. This neural activity is then interpreted by the brain as an internal activity. In: Klemm, W. R. & Vertes, R. P. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1990;76:388-99. 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. 29. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1987;66:383-90. Sci Am 1990;263:86-8,90-2,94-6. Eye movements in born-blinds are probably due to a quite different reason. Desynchronized sleep has been identified in many mammals and birds (16) but below the birds only in crocodiles brief periods of an equivalent phase (eye movements, low voltage electro-oscillograms and cervical hypotonia) seem to occur (17). 35. (1996) and Braun et al. Brainstem mechanisms of slow-wave sleep and REM sleep. 3. Vertes RB, Eastman KE. 46. There are other definitions of the word dream, too. Timo-Iaria C. Early research on dreaming. 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". Rothschuch KR. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1963. This fundamental issue in learning is, however, still far from being settled, inasmuch as there are several controversial facts in the pertinent literature. Cesar Timo-Iaria (in memorian); Angela Cristina do Valle. Unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. Confrontations Psychiatriques 1986;27:153-81. The caudalmost portion of this system (then labeled descending hypnogenic cholinergic) comprises the ventral and dorsal Gudden's nuclei, whose stimulation with carbachol triggered sleep in nearly 20 seconds. Brainstem Control of Wakefulness and Sleep. Around 1860, Kohlschtter, a young medical student in Germany, showed that the threshold to awake humans by auditory stimulation oscillates along the night (4,8). C R Soc Biol (Paris) 1969;163:181-6. Although it may happen in any sleep phase, it prevails during the desynchronized phase. Unfortunately, despite the opinion of great scientists of the past, most researchers that deal with sleep and dreaming, probably moved by philosophical, religious prejudice and a faulty reasoning, do not accept the idea that non-human animals do dream. J Neurosci 1991;11:2804-11. Many studies performed during the eighteenth century confirmed such statement (4,7). The motoneuron inhibition, responsible for the sleep atonia and abolition of movements, is not complete in infancy (figure 5). In fact, it does frequently occur when movements are expressed as high frequency potentials. In 1944 Obhlmeyer, Brilmayer & Uhlstrung (10) observed that in humans penile erection occurs during sleep at intervals of 85 minutes, which is the average duration of a sleep cycle. 19. There are many hypotheses to account for the existence of dreams but it is still a matter of debate why and what for we dream. Webanalyzing dreams. Much effort was devoted to searching for parallels between physiological aspects of REM sleep and characteristics of associated dreams, with modest results. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1978. J Neurophysiol 1966;29:871-87. Disclaimer. Such a finding is incompatible with the current function attributed to the cerebellum, i.e., only correction of movements. 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