Hello Sana, 

Are you familiar with this?

Dreams and Psychosis

A New Look at an Old Hypothesis

Charles McCreery

OXFORD FORUM

Psychological Paper No. 2008-1

ISBN 978-09536772-83

Polysomnographic sleep patterns in depressive, schizophrenic and healthy subjects.

Andrej Ilankovic

Nikola Ilankovic et all.

Psychiatria Danubina (Impact Factor: 0.65). 03/2014; 26(1):20-26.

Source: PubMed

Article

New Hypothesis and Theory about Functions of Sleep and Dreams

Andrej Ilankovic, Nikola Ilankovic, Vera Ilankovic

Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 03/2014; 2(1).

DOI: 10.3889/oamjms.2014.014

Also, my theories:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304604880_Towards_a_comprehensive_model_of_human_memory

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291912825_Continual-activation_theories_of_Schizophrenia_and_restless_legs_syndrome

Research Towards a comprehensive model of human memory

Article Continual-activation theories of Schizophrenia and restless ...

Hi Sana,

You might already be familiar with:

• The Dream as a Model for Psychosis: An Experimental Approach Using Bizarreness as a Cognitive Marker by Silvio Scarone, Maria Laura Manzone, Orsola Gambini, Ilde Kantzas, Ivan Limosani, Armando D'Agostino, and J. Allan Hobson.
• Levodopa-Induced Psychosis: A Kindling Phenomenon by CHARLENE MOSKOVITZ, HAMILTON MOSES, III, AND HAROLD L. KLAWANS.
• What links schizophrenia and dreaming? Common phenomenological and neurobiological features of schizophrenia and REM sleep by Dagna Skrzypińska and Barbara Szmigielska.

http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/3/515.short

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.457.3484&rep=rep1&type=pdf

http://www.archivespp.pl/uploads/29Skrzypinska_APP2_2013.pdf

For an expanded view (transpersonal) of some of what´s currently still labelled as psychosis, please read Stanislaf Grof´s concept of "spiritual emergencies" (see link)

http://realitysandwich.com/1800/spiritual_emergencies/

In any case it would be useful to read something about the bionian view of dream by Ogden, a very famous psychoanalyst. Shortly, dream would be a processing of daily impressions provisorily stored as non linkable elements ( beta elements ) in global ideo-sensory elements ( alpha elements), and in elaborating them. This would be a continous process, not conscious in awake state. Psychotic patients would be impaired in this kind of operation of storage and elaboration. Then psychosis, from this point of view would be not like a dream but the lack of a dream giving sense to sensorial impressions of the patient. Indeed psychotic ideation often looks like dreams. Maybe it s a bundle of dreams not dreamt.