Quote Originally Posted by moonshine View Post
So a thought dream = thoughts. how is that different from what i said.
Well, thoughts that you have in your sleep. The point is that thought-like dreams are neither like daydreams or vivid dreams.

I'm fully aware that it wasn't a research paper.
But this does not neccesary mean its inaccurate.
Not necessarily, but the advantage of a research paper is that it's written in such a way that it's easy to check facts and methods.

Anyhow, any thoughts on the research paper I did link to?
I didn't understand how that paper was supposed to support your contention that NREM dreams are different from REM dreams.

As to their discussion of "atonia" this is not atonia in the sense of the complete blockade of nerve signals that occurs in the brainstem during REM sleep. What they are talking about is atonia in the sense of low muscle tone as measured by EMG. Granted if you have real atonia you will have very low muscle tone, but if you have very low muscle tone, that's not necessarily an indication of real atonia. (Didn't we have this discussion last year?)