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I do not read French, unfortunately, so I couldn't read your article.
However, there is a LARGE body of psychological work on the
topic of dreaming.

To begin with, there is the journal: "Dreaming Journal of the
Association for the Study of Dreams."  There is also Stanford
psychologist Stephen LaBerge's "Lucidity Institute"  LaBerge was
one of the first to develop a technique in which the phenomenon
of lucid dreaming could be verified in the laboratory using a
combination of EEG, EOG, & EMG signals.  Check out:

LaBerge, Stephen P. (1980).  "Lucid Dreaming as a Learnable
Skill: a Case Study." Perceptual and Motor Skills, Vol 51,
pp. 1039-1042.

LaBerge, Stephen (1992).  "Physiological Studies of Lucid
Dreaming." In Antrobus, John S., & Bertini, Mario (eds.), The
Neurophysiology of Sleep and Dreaming.  New Jersey:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.  (this is the paper
that describes the lucid-dreaming verification technique: when
the dreamer in the sleep lab becomes lucid during a dream, he
or she first made prearranged eye movements that showed up
on an electrooculogram.  Then - while still dreaming - squeezed
the left and right fists in a morse code sequence that spelled out
the subject's initials.  These signals were recorded as corresponding
muscle activity on an EMG attached to the sleeping subject's
wrists.  All this while the EEG showed that the subject was
indeed asleep and in the REM state.)

There is also the E-journal "Electric Dreams" at
http://www.dreamgate.com/index2.htm
(I don't know much about this group - I'm always suspicious of
online journals, but they have some good links along with the
psuedo-crap you always find with this subject.)

Some of the most interesting work being done involves Neural
Network theory.  Francis Crick (of DNA double-helix fame) has
taken a stab at it, although his neural network theory does not, in
my very humble opinion, adequately account for dreams.  See:

Crick, Francis, & Mitchison, Graeme (1983). "The Function of
Dream Sleep."  Nature, Vol 304, pp. 111-114;

Also: Crick, Francis (1994). "The Astonishing Hypothesis."
New York: Simon & Schuster, contains further discussion on
dreaming.

Rosalind Cartwright's neural net theory is far more plausible (again
IMHO) since the phenomenon of dreaming is better accounted for.
See: Cartwright, Rosalind (1990).  A Network Model of Dreams.
In Bootzin, et. al. (eds.) Sleep and Cognition.  Washington, D.C.:
American Psychological Association.

Another good theory, written from a neurophysiological perspective,
is outlined by sleep researcher J. Allan Hobson.  Here's a couple of
references to his stuff:

Hobson, A., & McCarley, R. (1977).  "The Brain as a Dream Stage
Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream
Process."  American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 134, pp 1335-1348.

Hobson, J. Allan (1992).  "A New Model of Brain-Mind State:
Activation Level, Input Source, and Mode of Processing (AIM)." In
Antrobus, John S., & Bertini, Mario (eds.), The Neurophysiology
of Sleep and Dreaming.

I wrote a couple of papers on dreaming as an undergrad, and these
references come from a literature review I did on the subject for a
research class I was taking at Nova-Southeastern University.  I
originally wanted to do a lit review on the progress modern
psychology has made in its understanding of dreaming since Freud's
day, but the psychology of dreaming is *much* too broad a topic
for one paper.  I concentrated on neural network models and lucid
dreaming, and was still only able to scratch the surface of all the work
that's out there on these subjects (and still ended up with a 50 page
paper!)

Would it be possible to get a copy of your paper in English?  I know
that would be a lot of work, but I'm always interested in new ideas...

Thanks!

Dan Lee


Patan�e Pongp� wrote:

> ...

>     There is an area in neurosciences which remains poorly defined :
>      that of dreams.

...

>      AIl remains to be created in this area in which no litterature
>      exists.