There’s another circumstance where the frontal cortex is hypofunctional, producing similar behavioral manifestations—hypersexuality, outbursts of emotion, flamboyantly illogical acts.54 What disease is this? It isn’t. You’re dreaming. During REM sleep, when dreaming occurs, the frontal cortex goes off-line, and dream scriptwriters run wild. Moreover, if the frontal cortex is stimulated while people are dreaming, the dreams become less dreamlike, with more self-awareness. And there’s another nonpathological circumstance where the PFC silences, producing emotional tsunamis: during orgasm.
