The chaotic brain, dissociative states, and dream function.

ABSTRACT. Chaotic self-organizing processes may occur in brain functions and concomitant functions of consciousness (Bob 2003; Korn and Faure 2003; Putnam 1997). Researchers have also found that chaotic processes may be related to dissociative phenomena, which are characterized by abrupt shifts between disconnected contents of consciousness (Bob 2003; Putnam 1997). In the self-organizing theory of dreaming, Kahn and Hobson (1993) similarly proposed that abrupt shifts in neural activity patterns during chaotic pontogeniculooccipital (PGO) bursts of neural activity are related to th