Abstract We introduce the Pre-Dawn Access Regime (PDAR) as a formally defined neurocognitive regime occurring in late-stage REM sleep immediately preceding spontaneous awakening. Within a viability-constrained representational framework, PDAR is characterized by a temporary relaxation of viability filtering and an increase in representational plasticity, yielding a distinct operating point of the condensation operator. We do not assume privileged access to external or collective information structures. Instead, we formulate a weaker, testable claim: PDAR increases the probability that internally generated representations exhibit high cross-domain coherence, reduced apparent noise, and elevated generative novelty. Under this formulation, PDAR is not a metaphysical interface but a computational regime with measurable signatures in cognition, creativity, and behavioral transitions. We provide formal definitions, information-theoretic characterization, and empirically falsifiable predictions.
Roman Lukin (Mon,) studied this question.