Walking dreams in congenital and acquired paraplegia.

[wildwilly]

Conscious Cogn. 2011 Jun 23.

Walking dreams in congenital and acquired paraplegia.

Saurat MT, Agbakou M, Attigui P, Golmard JL, Arnulf I.
Source

Sleep Disorders Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
Abstract

To test if dreams contain remote or never-experienced motor skills, we collected during 6weeks dream reports from 15 paraplegics and 15 healthy subjects. In 9/10 subjects with spinal cord injury and in 5/5 with congenital paraplegia, voluntary leg movements were reported during dream, including feelings of walking (46%), running (8.6%), dancing (8%), standing up (6.3%), bicycling (6.3%), and practicing sports (skiing, playing basketball, swimming). Paraplegia patients experienced walking dreams (38.2%) just as often as controls (28.7%). There was no correlation between the frequency of walking dreams and the duration of paraplegia. In contrast, patients were rarely paraplegic in dreams. Subjects who had never walked or stopped walking 4-64years prior to this study still experience walking in their dreams, suggesting that a cerebral walking program, either genetic or more probably developed via mirror neurons (activated when observing others performing an action) is reactivated during sleep.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21704532

[Eileen]

Conscious Cogn. 2011 Jun 23.

Walking dreams in congenital and acquired paraplegia.

Saurat MT, Agbakou M, Attigui P, Golmard JL, Arnulf I.
Source

Sleep Disorders Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
Abstract

To test if dreams contain remote or never-experienced motor skills, we collected during 6weeks dream reports from 15 paraplegics and 15 healthy subjects. In 9/10 subjects with spinal cord injury and in 5/5 with congenital paraplegia, voluntary leg movements were reported during dream, including feelings of walking (46%), running (8.6%), dancing (8%), standing up (6.3%), bicycling (6.3%), and practicing sports (skiing, playing basketball, swimming). Paraplegia patients experienced walking dreams (38.2%) just as often as controls (28.7%). There was no correlation between the frequency of walking dreams and the duration of paraplegia. In contrast, patients were rarely paraplegic in dreams. Subjects who had never walked or stopped walking 4-64years prior to this study still experience walking in their dreams, suggesting that a cerebral walking program, either genetic or more probably developed via mirror neurons (activated when observing others performing an action) is reactivated during sleep.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21704532

I have never yet had a dream where I am in a wheelchair, despite being in a chair far longer than I walked at this point!

[jody]

I can walk with braces and a stick, but dont dream of walking. I am standing sitting, or I fly, my arms spread and on my back like I when I flew when the car hit me.
people who saw said I sailed about 25 feet, but in my dreams I fly away when ever I am in trouble always by spreading my arms and leaning back. I have to look over my shoulder tward the the ground to see where I am going.

sometimes im on a horse.