Sleep dreaming: the neuroscientific mapping of brain networks

Abstract

Current concepts in neurosciences view the generation of dreams during sleep as being the result of memory formation in a conscious state. Dreams are the interpretation of feelings and emotions that one encounters when awake. The increased neural activity lights up certain parts of the brain which work similar to the conscious state, hence the dreamer feels it real. Healthy people are able to tell the difference between real world and dreams, but psychotic patients have a stronger control over the neural networking of their brain, hence cannot come out of the dream state when awake.