Spotlight on dream recall: the ages of dreams

摘要: Brain and sleep maturation covary across different stages of life. At the same time, dream generation recall are intrinsically dependent on development neural systems. The aim this paper is to review existing studies about dreaming in infancy, adulthood, elderly stage life, assessing whether mentation may reflect changes underlying cerebral activity cognitive processes. It should be mentioned that some evidence from childhood investigations, albeit still weak contrasting, revealed a certain correlation between skills specific features reports. In respect, infantile amnesia, confabulatory reports, dream-reality discerning, limitation language production emotional comprehension considered as important confounding factors. Differently, growing adults suggests neurophysiological mechanisms encoding retrieval episodic memories remain states consciousness. More directly, point shared waking cognition corresponding features. A general decline frequency commonly reported elderly, it explained terms diminished interest its salience. Although empirical not yet available, an alternative hypothesis associates reduction age-related decline. state art knowledge partially due variety methods used investigate experience. Very few no investigations have been performed understand related electrophysiological pattern at ages. Most all, lack longitudinal psychophysiological seems main issue. As message, we suggest future collect reports upon awakening include neurobiological measures with performances.