References

As you spend more and more time at the Meaning of Dreams website,  using our dream dictionary, reading our articles on dream interpretation, dream theories, dream themes and lucid dreaming, posting on the Dreaming Forum and writing about your own dreams in your Dream Diary, you may discover that you wish to learn even more about the meaning of dreams.

Here are references to publications that will provide you with more detailed information about the meaning of dreams and related subjects:

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Arzy, S., Thut, G., Mohor, C., et. al. (2006). Neural basis of embodiment:  distinct contributions of temporoparietal junction and extrastriate body area. Journal of Neuroscience, 26:31, 8074-8081.

Askerinsky, E. and Kleitman, N. (1953). Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep. Science, 118, 273-274.

Blanke, O., Landis, T., Spinelli, L., Seeck, M. (2003).  Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin. Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 127:2, 243-258.

Blumenfeld, R.S.  and Ranganath C. (2006). Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex promotes long-term memory formation through its role in working memory organization. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26:3, 916-925.

Braun, A.R. Balkin, T.J., Wesenstein, N.J., et. al. (1998). Dissociated pattern of activity in visual cortices and their projections during human rapid eye movement sleep.  Science, 279:6347, 91-95.

Cai, D.J., Mednick, Sarnoff A., Harrison, Elizabeth M., et. al. (2009). REM, not incubation, improves creativity by priming associative networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106:25, 10130-10134.

Caples, S.M., Gami, A.S. and Somers, V.K. (2005). Obstructive sleep apnea. Annals of Internal Medicine, 142, 187:197.

Coolidge, F. (2006). Dream Interpretation as a psychotherapeutic technique. Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing.

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DeRidder, D., Van Laere, K. Dupont, P., et. al. (2007). Visualizing out-of-body experience in the brain. New England Journal of Medicine, 357, 1829-1833.

Fisher, C., Kahn, E., Edwards, A. and Davis, D. (1973). A psychophysiological study of nightmares and night terrors: I. Physiological aspects of the stage 4 night terror. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 157:2, 252-259.

Foulkes, D. (1985). Dreaming:  a cognitive-psychological analysis. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Freud S.  (1899). The interpretation of dreams.  English, translation, 1997 reprint,  Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Editions Limited

Franklin, M.S. and Zyphur M. (2005). The role of dreams in the evolution of the human mind. Evolutionary Psychology, 3, 59:78.

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Hobson, J.A. (2009). The neurobiology of consciousness: lucid dreaming wakes up. International Journal of Dream Research, 2:2, 41-44.

Hobson, J.A. (200). REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10, 803-813.

Hobson, J.A., and McCarley, R. W. (1977). The brain as a dream state generator: an activation-synthesis hypothesis of the dream process.  The American Journal of Psychiatry, 134:12, 1335-1348.

Hobson, J.A., Pace-Schott, E.F. and Stickgold, R (2000). Dreaming and the brain: toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 793-842

Klemm, W.R. (2011). Why does REM sleep occur? A wake-up hypothesis. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 5:73, 1-12.

Lim, L.L. (2010). Disorders of arousal. In Lisak, R.P, Truong, D.D, Carroll, W.M. and Roongrooj, B.   International neurology: a clinical approach (571-572). New Jersey:  John Wiley & Sons.

McNamara, P. (2007).  Costly signaling theory of REM sleep and dreams. Evolutionary Psychology, 5:1, 28044.

Punamäki, Rai (1998). The role of dreams in protecting psychological well-being in traumatic conditions. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 22:3; 559-588.

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Solms, M. (1999). The interpretation of dreams and the neurosciences, British Psychoanalytical Society & Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Solms, M. (2001). Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23:6, 843-850.

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Szelenberger, W., Niemcewicz, S. and Dabrowska, A. J. (2005). Sleepwalking and night terrors: psychopathological and physiological correlates. International Review of Psychiatry. 17:4, 263-270.

Tarnow, E. (2003).  How dreams and memory may be related.  Neuro-psychoanalysis. 5:2, 1-16.

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