This article reviews recent findings indicating some common brain processes during dissociative states and dreaming with the aim to outline a perspective that neural chaotic states during dreaming can be closely related to dissociative states that may manifest in dreams scenery. These data are in agreement with various clinical findings that dissociated states can be projected into the "dream scenery" in REM sleep periods and dreams may represent their specific interactions that may uncover unusual psychological potential of creativity in psychotherapy, art, and scientific discoveries.

Center for Neuropsychiatric Research of Traumatic Stress Department of Psychiatry and UHSL 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague Czech Republic ; Central European Institute of Technology Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Department of Public Health Sciences University of California Davis Davis CA USA ; Sofia University Palo Alto CA USA

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