What Enables Our Brain to Dream? A Bio-Cybernetics View
Abstract
There are several lines of evidence that human dreams depend on the brain's properties in terms of dream structure and its meaning alike (1). The human brain has specific features such as self-organization, memory, self-adaptation, feedback, disorder and diversity, non-equilibrium, etc., which enable the brain to create complex cogni-tive and behavioral functions the most interesting of which must be “dreaming” (2, 3).
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2. Zangeneh Soroush M, Maghooli K, Setarehdan SK, et al. Emotion recognition using EEG phase space dynamics and Poincare intersections. Biomed Signal Process Control 2020; 59: 101918.
3. Zangeneh Soroush M, Maghooli K, Setarehdan SK, et al. A novel approach to emotion recognition using local subset feature selection and modified Dempster-Shafer theory. Behav Brain Funct 2018; 14: 17.
4. Kahn D, Combs A, Krippner S. Dreaming as a function of chaos-like stochastic processes in the self-organizing brain. Nonlinear Dynamics Psychol Life Sci 2002; 6: 311-22.
5. Krippner S, Richards R, Abraham FD. Chaos and creativity while waking and dreaming. International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy 2014; 5: 18-26.
6. Kahn D. Brain basis of self: Self-organization and lessons from dreaming. Front Psychol 2013; 4: 408.
7. Kahn D, Krippner S, Combs A. Dreaming and the self-organizing brain. J Conscious Stud 2000; 7: 4-11.
8. Konkoly KR, Appel K, Chabani E, et al. Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep. Curr Biol 2021; 31: 1417-27.
9. Baird B, Mota-Rolim SA, Dresler M. The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2019; 100: 305-23.
10. Siclari F, Baird B, Perogamvros L, et al. The neural correlates of dreaming. Nat Neurosci 2017; 20: 872-8.
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| Issue | Vol 7 No 1-2 (2022): Winter-Spring | |
| Section | Letter to Editor | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.18502/jss.v7i(1-2).13215 | |
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| Dreaming Sleep Medicine Neuroscience Complex Systems Cybernetics | ||
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Soroush M. What Enables Our Brain to Dream? A Bio-Cybernetics View. J Sleep Sci. 2023;7(1-2):51-52.
