sajid at jam.wpd.sgi.com (Sajid Zia) writes:
:: Sometime I see in dreams that I am doing some work at home or
: watching T.V or something, My friend is supposed to call me (in
: the dream), after sometime phone rings, so I go to pick up the
: phone and suddenly wake up finding that that phone is really
: ringing. It can not be the coincidence because similar things
: have happend many times. So how it happens? Is it that brain
: cooks up a story after hearing the phone ring while in sleep
: state?
:This is the accepted view: the brain incorporates external stimuli into
the ongoing dream ~ "cooks up a story". Allan Rechtschaffen wrote a
good article about this years back, but I do not have the reference
available.
Dag Stenberg, Dept.Physiology, Univ. Helsinki. Finland
