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Sleep medicine

the theory that dreams arise when the forebrain makes the best story it can of random activation from the brainstem during REM sleep.

In sleep medicine, activation-synthesis hypothesis refers to the theory that dreams arise when the forebrain makes the best story it can of random activation from the brainstem during REM sleep. This meaning comes from Hobson (1977) in American Journal of Psychiatry.[1]

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Hobson, J. A., & McCarley, R. W. (1977). The brain as a dream state generator: an activation-synthesis hypothesis of the dream process. American Journal of Psychiatry, 134(12), 1335-1348. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1335

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