A man admitted to a psychiatric ward in Melbourne told his treatment team something none of them had read about before. He was not describing nightmares. He was describing dreams he believed had been placed inside his head by someone else, from outside, while he slept.
His clinicians could not match the account to any recognized symptom, so they proposed a name for it. In a case report published in January in Case Reports in Psychiatry, David Clayton and Sandeep Grover of Northern Hospital Epping call the phenomenon dream insertion.
