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ReviewJournal of sleep research2025

Dreaming conundrum.

Carlotta Mutti, Francesca Siclari, Ivana Rosenzweig

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Review in Journal of sleep research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. When dreams feel real: the MÖBIUS model.Communications biology · 2026
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  2. Dreaming conundrum.Journal of sleep research · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Carlotta MuttiSleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1930-5045
Francesca SiclariThe Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2061-9719
Ivana RosenzweigDepartment of Neuroimaging, Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2152-9694

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dreaming, a common yet mysterious cognitive phenomenon, is an involuntary process experienced by individuals during sleep. Although the fascination with dreams dates back to ancient times and gained therapeutic significance through psychoanalysis in the early twentieth century, its scientific investigation only gained momentum with the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in the 1950s. This review synthesises current research on the neurobiological and psychological aspects of dreaming, including factors influencing dream recall and content, neurophysiological correlates, and experimental models, and discusses the implications for clinical practice.

Indexed as

DreamsHumansMental RecallSleep, REMdreamsoneiric activitiesREMsleepsleepdream mentation

Identifiers

PMID39360736
PMCPMC11911046

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