Consciousness

[Alan V]

"The failure of self-reflective awareness, the delusional acceptance of improbable and impossible events, the loss of constancy of time, place, and person, and -- most critically -- of the directive power of thought, may be due to the loss of norepinephrine and/or serotonin."  Allan Hobson, From Angels to Neurones, page 53.

"Dreamers are delusional because they lack awareness of the overall situation and context in which dreaming is occurring; that is, they do not realize they are in bed and asleep while they are dreaming."  William Domhoff, The Emergence of Dreaming, page 213