How Does Protoconsciousness Theory Mesh with Your Model of Dream Emotion?

Abstract

Comments on an article J. Allan Hobson by (see record [rid]2009-21327-004[/rid]). The role of sleep and dreaming in maintaining emotional stability represents a very tangible and practical example of protoconsciousness as a mental state that supports the proper functioning of normal waking consciousness. Normal sleep has been shown to promote basic mammalian mechanisms of emotion regulation such as habituation, extinction, and physiological homeostasis. Sleep deprivation experiments suggest that sleep is also essential to cognitively based emotion regulatory functions such as accurate identification of facial emotion. Dreaming has been widely hypothesized to take part in this emotion regulatory process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)