{"id":4237,"date":"2015-08-15T10:42:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T15:50:35","slug":"a-possible-explanation-for-visually-vivid-dreams-during-rem-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-possible-explanation-for-visually-vivid-dreams-during-rem-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"A possible explanation for visually vivid dreams during REM sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have found that during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep the human brain is responding in a way similar to visual processing during wakefulness. This may explain why individuals woken from REM sleep often report vivid dreams, and may reflect visual imagery during dreaming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research team studied the activity of the medial temporal lobe (MTL), a region associated with visual processing and long-term memory, in 19 individuals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results demonstrate that MTL activity during REM sleep shares many properties seen when rapid eye movements are made while the subject is awake. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2015\/150811\/ncomms8884\/full\/ncomms8884.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 11<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yuval Nir, Sackler School of Medicine, and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep the human brain is responding in a way similar to visual processing during wakefulness. This may explain why individuals woken from REM sleep often report vivid dreams, and may reflect visual imagery during dreaming. The research team studied the activity of the medial temporal lobe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[992,200,2078],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-brain","tag-neurology","tag-sleep"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-16l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}