Deja-reve: Prior dreams induced by direct electrical brain stimulation

摘要

Background: Epileptic patients sometimes report experiential phenomena related to a previous dream they had during seizures or electrical brain stimulation (EBS). This has been alluded to in the literature as "deja-reve" ("already dreamed"). However, there is no neuroscientific evidence to support its existence and this concept is commonly mixed up with deja-vu. We hypothesized that deja-reve would be a specific entity, i.e., different from other experiential phenomena reported in epileptic patients, induced by EBS of specific brain areas.