“… most of us recall no more than 1 percent of our dreams.”
“According to the Dartmouth neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, 98 percent of what the brain does is outside of conscious awareness, while a review of scientific evidence on this question published in 1999 conluded that 95 percent of our actions are unconsciously determined.”
“Studying the bizzare elements in dreams is in fact one of the directions Sophie Schwartz is pursuing in her current post in Switzerland at the University of Geneva’s Departments of Physiology and Clinical Neurosciences.”
“Schwartz is collaborating with Pierre Maquet, who is setting up a state-of-the-art brain imaging facility in his lab in Belgium to continue his investigation of how dreaming and other sleep stages contribute to learning and memory consolidation, using a technique called fMRI.”
“State of the art brain imaging is also central to new research indertaken in South Africa by Mark Solms, whose groundbraking studies of patients with brain lesions underscored the crucial role played by the forebrain in creating dreams.”
