The PubMed wordmark and PubMed logo are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Some more recent theories of dreaming emphasize an adaptive function related to emotion and a role in learning and memory consolidation. Sci Am 1990;263:86-8,90-2,94-6. Often eye movements are preceded in the electroencephalogram by small sawthoot-waves that superimpose on desynchronized potentials (figure 3). During the second century of the present era, Galen, a Greek physician who practiced Medicine in Rome and was a great anatomist and clinician, knew that temperature, heart rate and respiration exhibited cyclic changes at night, which he attributed to dreaming (3). The waking level of aminergic modulation falls to 50% during synchronized sleep and to nearly zero in desynchronized sleep (121,122). The motoneuron inhibition, responsible for the sleep atonia and abolition of movements, is not complete in infancy (figure 5). Web5 Theories on dreaming . By lesioning the alphacoeruleus nuclei such an inhibitory effect is prevented and during oniric activity the movements generated by the dream itself can be expressed, as was clearly demonstrated in Jouvet's Laboratory (50,51) in cats; the animal suddenly gets up, walks, miews and strikes with the paws, as if the animal were awake. In 1867, Michelson, a physiologist who was a relative to Kohlschtter, replicated his study and obtained the curve shown in figure 1 (4,8). 81. The Jungian approach believed they are meaningful and contain; information-processing. 2021 Aug 30;24(2):543. doi: 10.4081/ripppo.2021.543. Lucrce. 65. NeuroReport 1995;6:532-6. Sigmund Freuds theory of dreams suggests that dreams represent unconscious desires, thoughts, wish fulfillment, and motivations. During the first half of the twentieth century, despite the heavy influence of psychoanalysis, dreaming was again but sporadically studied scientifically. A theory that has many followers is the one that connects dreams, in particular, desynchronized sleep in general, with memory consolidation. Arch Gen Psychiat 1966;14:238-48. Epub 2010 Nov 12. Foulkes (1982) considered that dreams are so easily forgotten because the brain in desynchronized sleep is in a "reflective state". Penile erection, that also occurs in monkeys, is present during desynchronized (paradoxical or REMsleep) but it is not necessarily linked to erotic dreams. Arch Ital Biol 1969;107:175-216. Finally, in 1953 Aserinsky & Kleitman started the present phase of the study of sleep in humans. 61. Movements of the eyes when the lids are closed. Cognitive and emotional processes during dreaming: a neuroimaging view. This theory is supported by the fact that the body has decreased metabolism by up to 10% during sleep. Gassel MM, Marchiafava PL, Pompeiano O. 1996 Sep 12;383(6596):163-6. doi: 10.1038/383163a0. No wonder that most dreams in humans have a visual component, explaining the reason why eye movements occur in any kind of dream, alone or as part of non-visual dreams. Physiol Behav 1974;12:293-5. 2017 May 31;2017(1):nix009. Fortunately, thanks to this peculiar incomplete motoneuron inhibition we are able to record movements occurring in both humans and non-human animals and thus infer the presence of dreams. Aristotle (1), who had carefully observed several animal species while asleep, noticed that movements of several of their body parts were quite similar to those performed by humans during dreaming. Although it has not been shown that the alpha-coeruleus nuclei are lesioned in these patients, it is tempting to consider that their lesion underlies such sleep disturbance. Animal experimentation, by making it possible to implant electrodes in any part of the nervous system and to lesion and stimulate (electrically or chemically) also any nucleus or pathway, has been of the utmost relevance for the understanding of the mechanisms causing not only sleep but also the manifestations of dreaming. Springer Verlag, Frankfurt 1953. 62. 59. Dreams are still taken by a majority of the human kind as premonitory, ascribing them the function of telling us that something important will happen. With developments in understanding of the neurophysiology of REM sleep, new theories of dreaming were proposed. San Diego, 1973. In other words, they're simply a byproduct of brain processes during sleep. Accordingly, they are known as PGO (pontine, occipital cortex and lateral geniculate nucleus) potentials. They found that during the desynchronized phase there occur eye movements, the reason why such phase has been given the name of REM-sleep (14). The site is secure. With Darwin (1965), we are fully convinced that "at least birds and mammals do dream" (6). Baldissera F, Cesa-Bianchi MG, Mancia M. Phasic events indicating presynaptic inhibition of primary afferents to the spinal cord during desynchronized sleep. For the first time, direct and systematic investigation could be made of such topics as the occurrence, qualities, recollection, and childhood development of dreaming. 130. A nerve growth factor-induced gene encodes a possible trancriptional regulatory factor. By comparing the program with the peripheral information, that tells it how the behavior is evolving, the cerebellum produces corrections, so that the execution can match the program. The meaning of dreams is therefore still an unsolved problem. This seems to be a highly improbably conception, among other reasons because, as dreaming is concerned, threatening events are as dangerous to the organism as bad news we hear and as crossing a street or watching a movie-film full of violence are as well. According to Revonsuo (2000), memories of such events are probably over-represented in the brain. Brain Develop (Tokyo) 1992;14:109-20. Later research argues that dreams are physiological, beginning with random electrical impulses deep within the brain stem. In: C. Guilleminaut, W. C. Dement and P. Passouant (eds.) 110. Candia O, Favale E, Guissani A, Rossi G. Blood pressure during natural sleep and during sleep induced by electrical stimulation of the brain stem reticular formation. Erlbaum 1992. Sleep research: pictures from the early years. With developments in understanding of the neurophysiology of REM sleep, new Inasmuch as rats do not tell us their dreams, we inferred the kinds of dreams by considering the patterns of movements the animals performed. Vision is our predominant sensory channel, so much so that if we hear a sound we immediately convey the eyes to the source of the sound, trying to identify its origin, even if vision is absent. These authors argue that despite the marked suppression of desynchronized sleep provoked by tricyclic antidepressants neither selective serotonine reuptake inhibitors and mono-amino-oxydase nor learning and memory are disrupted. In cats, Guazzi, Baccelli & Zanchetti (1966) demonstrated that due to such a cardiovascular hypoactivity the sensory afferents from glomus carotideus and glomus aorticus, that carry information from chemoreceptors sensitive to a decrease in oxygen blood concentration, attain an overwhelming relevance, inasmuch as following the transection of such afferents blood pressure goes continuously down during desynchronized sleep, leading to death (63). Front Neurol. Hansotia P, Broste S, Ruggles K, Wall R, Friske M. Eye movement patterns in REM sleep. In 1896 Weed & Halam (4) published the first quantification of dreams content. Psychoanalysis considers dreams as an important window to the unconscious world, what makes dream interpretation a crucial factor in psychonalytic diagnosis and treatment. 30. In this review, the neural circuits underlying dreaming and the physiological functions associated with it are summarized. The caudalmost portion of this system (then labeled descending hypnogenic cholinergic) comprises the ventral and dorsal Gudden's nuclei, whose stimulation with carbachol triggered sleep in nearly 20 seconds. It seems that a systematic investigation regarding the threshold to different types of stimulation is still lacking and should be performed, in order to establish which kinds of stimulation and effective thresholds are able to awaken humans and non-humans during sleep. Neuroscience 1997;81:893-926. Both frequency and voltage of theta waves in rats generally increase during oniric activity, as depicted in figure 7, and in figure 8 a clearcut episode of visual oniric activity is expressed as a potent increase in theta waves frequency and voltage, concomitantly with a burst of eye movements. 70. 114. Brain Mechanism and Perceptual Awareness. In rats, heart rate is clearly accelerated during the periods of oniric activity, expressed as rostrum+vibrissae, eye, head, ear and limb movements. Control of ventilation during sleep. 129. Considering dreams as hallucinations, Hernndez-Pen (1966) theorized that they are possible because the system responsible for wakefulness is inactivated during sleep, releasing memory tracings which are brought to consciousness. Muscle atonia during desynchronized sleep is, as stated above, generated in the alpha-coeruleus nucleus and involves both direct and indirect pathways that inhibit the motoneurons. Gardner Jr R, Grossman WI, Roffwarg HP, Weiner H. The relationship of small limb movements during REM sleep to dreamed limb action. 2. Grimm R, Tischmeyer W. Complex patterns of immediate gene induction in rat brain following brightness discrimination training and pseudotraining. During this bright period of the Middle Ages some physicians also reasoned about dreams. Noda H, Adey WR. They include facilitation of memory storage, Exp Brain Res 1989;74:11-23. Analysis of psychological theories concerning functions of dreams. The earliest theory to emerge, Freuds psychoanalytic theory, takes an observational approach to identifying the function that dreams serve. Freud theorized that dreams are the result of unfulfilled wishes or desires in the subjects life. Many hypotheses have been advanced but so far they do not explain why and what for we do dream. Mirmiran M, Van den Dungen H, Uylings HBM. 7. Schmidek WR, Hoshino K, Schmidek M, Timo-Iaria C. Influence of environmental temperature on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in the rat. 2009 Nov;10(11):803-13. doi: 10.1038/nrn2716. 71. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the 113. Miyauchi S, Takino R, Fukuda H, Torii S. Electrophysiological evidence for dreaming. Such hypothesis is grounded on the following steps. Rostrum movements in desynchronized sleep as a prevalent manifestation of dreaming activity in Wistar rats. 88. Eye movements in born-blinds are probably due to a quite different reason. It is likely that even strong stimuli may be ineffective in producing an arousal during sleep if they are trivial, whereas light stimulation containing relevant information may be highly efficient. Freuds wish-fulfillment. Kubin L, Davies RO, Pack AI. Electrical potentials recorded from the medial vestibular nuclei precede eye movements by 20 to 30 milliseconds, which points to these nuclei as the last synaptic stations in the pathway that produces eye movements during desynchronized sleep. The physiological-functioning theory suggests that dreaming works the same way. Solms M. Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms. Maquet P, Peters JM, Aerts J, Delfiore G, Degueldre C, Luxen A, et al. Possible role for the transcription factor zif268/egr-1, polyoma enhancer activator 3, and AP2. Electrical stimulation of the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis evokes bilateral muscle atonia in decerebrate cats (52). WebDream theories attempt to inform us of our deeper psychological states and shed light on the function of our dreams. The other is that dreams are caused After transection of the brain stem at the pontomesencephalic transition, rostrally to locus coeruleus, desynchronized sleep still occurs below the transection (10,90-93). the apparitions. Vertes RP. The Psychology of Dreaming. Central activation of autonomic effectors during mental stimulation of motor activity in man. The reinterpretation of dreams: an evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming. Valle AC, Pellarin L, Timo-Iaria C. Oniric patterns in the rat. Desynchronized sleep has been identified in many mammals and birds (16) but below the birds only in crocodiles brief periods of an equivalent phase (eye movements, low voltage electro-oscillograms and cervical hypotonia) seem to occur (17). While the how and why of dreaming may be explored using physiological and biological methods, dreaming is also a subjective experience involving a form of mentation that can offer representations of an individual's internal world. This author "thus proposes a psychoanalytical model of dreaming, in which dreams constitute a way of representing the individual's inner world with internal objects related with one another and with the self" (135). 103. Editor-translator: Gallop, D., Aris & Phillips Ltd., Warminster, England 1991. Changes in hippocampal gene expression associated with the induction of long-term potentiation. Researchers working on dream usually do not believe that dreaming may occur in non-human animals, probably due to religious and philosophical reasons but also to a great mistake, i.e., that dreaming is a high level mental activity, such as doing mathematics, but it is not. In humans a dream may be reported and its content can thus be analyzed. eCollection 2017. Roberts LA, Higgins MJ, O'Shaughnessy CT, Stone TW, Morris BJ. Psychophysiology 1968;4:311-23. Desynchronization is the rule, during this phase, in all cortical electro-oscillograms in humans and other primates. Hippocrates and Alkmaeon, who discovered that the mind is in the brain, not in the heart, knew that dreams were originated in the brain. Behav Brain Sci 2000;23:867-76. We spend a lot of time sleeping. Axons from neurons of the nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis descend along the ventral and ventrolateral funiculi and connect with inhibitory interneurons in the spinal cord (55,56). Around 80 per cent of such motor activity was found to occur during desynchronized sleep, what points to its participation in dreaming activity. Mori D, Shik ML, yagodnitsyn AS. Timo-Iaria C, Valle AC. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal Braz J Med Biol Res 1990;23:617-20. Similarly, in rats any kind of sensory stimulation does immediately mobilize sniffing and vibrissal scanning movements. Recordings of the electrical activity of the brain, which we will refer to as electro-oscillograms, reveal specific patterns that express the phases of sleep in several central regions of the brain, including the phase during which most oniric activity takes place, the desynchronized or paradoxical sleep. However, we still do not know why most motor units are inactivated while a few ones are mobilized, causing real but incoherent and non-efficient movements. Problems with Physiological function Theory This does 54. When only one side of the reticular formation is also destroyed, the same pattern of recovery does occur; if the other side of the reticular formation is also destroyed after two or three weeks, recovery of wakefulness and desynchronized sleep is even faster than when both sides are lesioned at the same time. Santos LM, Valle AC, Sameshima K, Silva MTP, Timo-Iaria C. A linear relationship between theta waves frequency and the speed of learning in rats. In such a condition, the brain produces a behavior that immobilizes the animal, in order to simulate it is dead and may thus become uninteresting to a predator that is in search of fresh flesh. 22. (57). Foulkes D. A cognitive-psychological model of REM dream production. Mol Brain Res 1996;38:77-84. Electroencerph Clin Neurophysiol 1964;17:617-29. The very essence of dreams is, certainly, memorized information. A theory that has many Visual dreams provoke eye movements. 86. We propose that the function of dream sleep (more properly rapid-eye movement or REM sleep) is to remove certain undesirable modes of interaction in The ancient Chinese scientific inquiry tried to understand dreaming but usually also considered them mistically. Silent functional magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates focal activation in rapid eye movement sleep. 85. Physiol Behav 1970;5:402-7. Brain Develop 1994;16:81-91. Spectrum, New york 1976:411-449. Later, the Roman writer Lucretius, the first popularizer of science, in his book De Rerum Natura (1978) credited these Greek philosophers for the discovery of the characteristics of sleep and dreams (2). Sleep Res 1973;4:65. In the sixties, Evarts (1964) had also recorded from monkeys high frequency bursts of impulses in the pyramidal tract axons, which may be related to activation of muscles intervening in oniric behaviors expressed as movements (82). This is specially true as to bees, that at night do interrupt their hum, "even if they are exposed to the light of a lantern". The reason for such vegetative adjustments is obviously that the nervous tissue is metabolically very demanding, so much so that 20% of the inspired oxygen goes to the nervous system. 31. Advances in Sleep Research, vol. Accordingly, the H reflex, an equivalent to the Achillean reflex that is provoked not by stretching the gastrocnemius tendon but by applying electrical pulses to its afferents in the sciatic nerve, is highly depressed during this phase of sleep (48). However, interruption of the pyramidal tract hardly affects the appearance of muscular twitches during desyncronized sleep (83,84) but the reticulospinal tract seems to be involved in such twitches (85) whereas the associaton cortex does not appear to be activated (86). Depression of electrically induced reflexes (H- reflexes) in man during low voltage EEG sleep. Petersohn D, Schoch S, Brinkmann DR, Thiel G. The human synapsin II gene promoter. If, as an advantage, in humans such manifestations of dreams can be related to their reported content, in non-human animals it is possible to record with a high degree of accuracy not only the motor and the vegetative manifestations of dremaing but the electro-oscillograms of many central structures as well. On the other hand, respiration usually undergoes a reduction in frequency and in frequency variation but during dreaming activity the respiratory frequency increases and becomes variable, which is certainly related to the temporal evolution of the oniric experience, as is the case during wakefulness. Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-cyle an (H2O)-O-15 PET study. Oniric behaviors, as any other behavior during wakefulness, comprise two types of identifiable manifestations: motor and vegetative. 41. 34. Soja PJ, Lopez-Rodriguez F, Morales FR, Chase MH. A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur for the most part involuntarily during certain stages of sleep. Behav Brain Res 1995;69:203-6. WebAbstract. 90. Brain Res 1979;176:233-54. Miyauchi et al. Guazzi M, Baccelli G, Zanchetti A. Carotid body chemoreceptors: physiological role in buffering fall in blood pressure during sleep. The posterior areas affected in this syndrome are the visual areas V3, V3a and V4 (97). 27. Physiological-functioning theor y was supported in a 2009 paper written by J. Allan 100. Contemporary neuroscientific theories often view dreams as epiphenomena, and many of the proposals for their biological function are contradicted by the phenomenology of dreams themselves. The number of PGO potentials undergoes a high increase after the frontal ablation, which is suggestive of a tonic inhibition of these potentials by the frontal cortex. Another fancy hypothesis is the one that proposes that we dream to forget, in order to delete "unwanted" information by reverse learning or unlearning (118). J Sleep Res 1993;2:63-9. J Neurophysiol 1966;29:871-87. Later, theta waves were also found in rats during both attentive wakefulness and desynchronized sleep (19,30,31,74-76). Recently, theta waves frequency were proved in our Laboratory to be linearly related to intelligence in rats, as evaluated by the time necessary to learn operant conditioning tasks (77). 117. The main purpose of experimental decerebration is to study the mechanisms of the fundamental posture, that is, the standing posture. Role of pontine tegmentum for locomotor control in mesencephalic cat. No wonder that dream recall is impaired in brain-damaged patients (97). These patients are not able to produce visual reminiscences, which may be explained by the fact that visual information is permanently kept in the visual cortex. Some scientists take the position that dreaming probably has no function. 3. A related point of view was put forward by Krueger & Obal (1993), who proposed that, on the basis of use-dependent synaptic stabilization, the neuronal assembly not activated during wakefulness will be activated during sleep, to prevent it from atrophy (117). In: Pompeiano, O. Plenum Press, 1990. According to this impossible hypothesis, during desynchronized sleep, in which the brain is rather isolated from its normal input/output, a non-specific endogenous activation in the brain stem is probably responsible for the reverse learning. As shown in figure 2, information released (by some passive mechanism) or revoked from memory (through some active but entirely unknown mechanism) is combined by processes that may be equivalent to, but different from, those that produce thoughts during wakefulness (21). Brain Res 2002, submitted. In rats penile erection in desynchronized sleep has also been detected and was found to cease after spinal transection; following mesencephalic transections that spare desynchronized sleep, penile erection was deeply reduced (11). Many studies performed during the eighteenth century confirmed such statement (4,7). Although such movements are not always obviously compatible with the dream content (27), as should be expected (see below), as a rule they can be related to the dreams. Reactivation of hippocampal ensemble memories during sleep. WebAs the foregoing discussion of rival theories of dream function suggests, there are many findings that contradict the idea that dreams have any kind of physiological or Control of upper airway motoneurons during REM sleep. They also argue that even "expensive and cumbersome evoked potential and computer averaging approaches have not helped us to analyze and compare desynchronized sleep physiology with that of waking in an effective way". Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1990;76:388-99. & Ajmone-Marsan, C. 52. Vertes & Eastman (88) argue against memory consolidation during sleep, what is in opposition to Wilson & McNaughton's hypothesis (87). (1962) clearly demonstrated that in the cat blood diastolic pressure falls deeply to around 60 mmHg, beginning as soon as the electrocorticogram starts to desynchronize. J Ment Nerv Dis 1966;141:623-50. 5. In: Baust, W. 91. J Neurophysiol 1946;9:165-71. 128. During REM sleep, several physiological changes also take place. (ed. 13 Loomis AL, Harvey DN, Hobart GA. Distribution of disturbance patterns in the human electroencephalogram, with special reference to sleep. Neurosci Res 1993;17:127-140. during desynchronized sleep prevents sustained brain inactivity, which might occur during sleep. Recently a more acceptable evidence in favor of the consolidation hypothesis arises from the study of a gene involved in neuronal activation This gene protein, zif-268 (98), binds to a specific DNA molecule present in the promoters of a variety of genes expressed in the nervous system (99) and its up-regulation is thought to initiate a program of gene regulation leading to neuronal plasticity (100). 108. Moruzzi G. Active processes in the brain stem during sleep. There is experimental evidence that eye movements are generated near the nucleus of the abducent nerve but Pompeiano (1967) does not agree with this view (10,41). The atonia of myoclonia of active (REM) sleep. Descending projections from the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum to the paramedian reticular nucleus of the caudal medulla in the cat. Careers. 99. However, considering the high prevalence of dreams during this phase it should be more appropriately named oniric phase of sleep. Brain activity during this time keeps us 10. However, we all know that many dreams are not emotional at all. Perspective of Motor Behavior and its Neural Basis. Predicting Intention to Participate in Community Physical Activities for Adults with Physical Disabilities. 83. Their data do not depart from modern studies of the same kind. When they sleep, fishes keep quiet, with no apparent movements, and then they can be easily fished with a hand.". 12. Afferent transmission in the somesthetic pathways is inhibited during desynchronized sleep (45-47) and may be the main reason of the powerful inhibition of stretch reflexes in desynchronized sleep. Roussy F, Camirand C, Foulkes D, De Koninck J, Loftis M, Kerr NH. University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London edition 1985. 68. 25. Rechtschaffen A, Buchignani C. The visual appearance of dreams. John Wiley and Sons, New york 1982. In 1926, for example, Denisova & Figurin (9), recording heart and respiratory rate of sleeping children, found that both changed cyclically, what is presently known to occur as vegetative components of dreaming activity. 72. NeuroReport 1997;8:3-7. In decerebrate cats eye movements do occur and are integrated below the midbrain (67,95). Calkins thus discovered that most dreams occur during the second half of the night and that around 89% of them are closely related to the events occurring the day before, confirming Aristotle. It is most likely an elementary brain activity in homeotherms and thus, if dreaming has a function, it probably plays a similar role in the human brain and in nonhuman brains as well. Madsen PC, Holm S, Vorstup S, Friberg L, Lassen NA, Wildschiotz LF. Exptl Neurol 1963;8:93-111. Sleep and dreaming: induction and mediation of REM sleep by cholinergic mechanisms. Consciousness in waking and dreaming: the roles of neuronal oscillation and neuromodulation in determining similarities and differences. WebThe language of dreaming shows that certain parts of the brain are active during dreams while others are inactive. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1955:673-690. The value of r is as high as 0.9618 when theta waves in the hippocampal CA1 field of one side are matched with those in the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis, what points to a close temporal relationship between theta waves in hippocampus and in the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis. Proposed by Harvard psychiatrists J. Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley in 1977, the theory posits that dreams are your brains attempts to make sense of random patterns of firing neurons while you slumber. and transmitted securely. Braun et al. Confrontations Psychiatriques 1986;27:153-81. 135. When the rat moves the head, for example (which may indicate a vestibular dream), heart rate goes up and may be as high as 330 bpm, similar to that occurring during attentive behavior. News Physiol Sci 1998;13:91-7. The leading theory of dreaming in the early decades of this research was the psychoanalytic, which views dreams as highly meaningful reflections of unconscious mental functioning. Mirmiran M, Van Someren E. The importance of REM sleep for brain maturation. Braz J Med Biol Res 1995;28:385-96. We suppose, instead, inasmuch as dreams are forgotten if we are not aroused while dreaming or within ten to fifteen minutes immediately after the dream has ceased, that it may well be that dreams are forgotten because the reticular activating system is highly deactivated during desynchronized sleep and thus the memory of the dreams cannot be consolidated (110). Nofzinger EA, Mintun MA, Wiseman MB, Kupfer DJ, Moore Ry. Candia et al. WebThis theory also implies that dreams are not independently functional but rather a coproduct of the sleeping brain, reflecting the dreamers physiological and psychological J Neurophysiol 1964;27:152-71. Peyrethon J, Dusan-Peyrethon D. tude polygraphique du cycle veille-sommeil chez trois genres de rptiles. 104. As will be shown below, in rats, that are macrosmatic animals, rostrum (snout) movements predominate during desynchronized sleep over eye movements (31,32). Berlucchi G. Mechanismen von Schlafen und Wachen. In fact, we ignore almost completely why we dream. Proc Assoc Res Nerv Ment Dis. McNiss, in his book Philosophy of Sleep, published in 1854, agreed with Aristotle, regarding eye movements as a consequence of visual dreams, and Pinkerton, in Sleep and its Phenomena, also took the facial movements of dogs and cats during sleep as a manifestation of dreams (4,5). 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