Dream Research
Do animals dream?
REM sleep is found across mammals and birds, and rats appear to replay the routes they ran that day. Whether any of that involves experience is a question the evidence cannot reach.
Topic
consciousness
Every Kingdom of Dream article tagged consciousness — 3 pieces across 2 sections.
Dream Research
Micro-dreams, mind-wandering and the blurred edge of dreaming
Daydreaming and dreaming share a brain network, a loosening of control, and a tendency to go somewhere you did not intend. The boundary between them is considerably less firm than the words suggest.
Symbols & Meaning
Why we forget that we were asleep: the strange discontinuity of waking
Eight hours vanish nightly with no felt duration, and we accept this without comment. The mechanisms behind that gap say something about how consciousness is constructed.