Dream · Pillar
Dreams
Nocturnal simulation, memory replay, and the brain’s private generative models.
Dreams as offline model fitting
Contemporary neuroscience frames REM and NREM dreaming as active inference / memory consolidation — the brain training on generated worlds.
Lucid dreaming as a consciousness switch
Lucidity research shows metacognition can re-enter the dream state — a rare window into volitional control of an endogenous VR.
Sleep replay and the overnight rewrite
Sharp-wave ripples and systems consolidation: how the sleeping brain reorganizes the day’s traces into durable structure.