A 'Hot Zone' In The Brain May Reveal When, And Even What, We Dream
When people have dreams, an area near the back of the brain seems to wake up. And specific patterns of brain activity in that area can even reveal what we're dreaming about.
Most of us have about five dreams each night, though we're not likely to remember any of them.
But a team of researchers has found a pattern of brain activity that seems to reveal not only when the brain is generating a dream, but something about the content of that dream.
"When subjects were having [dream] experiences during sleep, there was a region in the back, a researcher at the Center for Research and Investigation in Sleep at Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland.
