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Dissociated Neurocognitive Processes
in Dreaming Sleep
John Antrobus, Ph.D. and Deirdre Conroy, B.S.
The absence of the normal, i.e., waking, relationship between the overt behavioral state of
the body and private, subjective experience is a fundamental characteristic of both
hypnosis and dreaming sleep. Both states demonstrate a dissociation between mind/brain
subprocesses that, in the waking state, are highly coordinated. Although the concept of
dissociation has been central to theories of hypnosis for many years, it has not been
developed in dream theory – despite the many shared features of the two states. This paper
will briefly review the primary characteristics of dreaming that can be attributed to
mind/brain dissociations and then examine in greater detail dissociations in the visual
imagery-oculomotor system during dreaming. (Sleep and Hypnosis 1999;1:105-111)
| Keywords: dreaming, dissociation, eye movements |
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