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The waking-to-dreaming continuum and the effects of emotion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Ernest Hartmann
Ernest Hartmann
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine and Sleep Disorders Center, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Boston, MA 02459 ehdream@aol.com
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Abstract

The three-dimensional “AIM model” proposed by Hobson et al. is imaginative. However, many kinds of data suggest that the “dimensions” are not orthogonal, but closely correlated. An alternative view is presented in which mental functioning is considered as a continuum, or a group of closely linked continua, running from focused waking activity at one end, to dreaming at the other. The effect of emotional state is increasingly evident towards the dreaming end of the continuum.

[Hobson et al.; Nielsen; Solms]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 947 - 950
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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