>: 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.
You might be interested in looking at Hobson and McCarley - it's called some-
thing like the Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis. Don't remember the exact
reference, unfortunately...
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