What Are Dreams For?
Amanda Gefter writes about how our body twitches during REM sleep affect our dreams, and the scientific theories about why we dream.
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Amanda Gefter writes about how our body twitches during REM sleep affect our dreams, and the scientific theories about why we dream.
The Brain. Credit: Terese Winslow. There is a new feature in the New Yorker, What Are Dreams For?, stating that, “In 1953, when two scientists at the…
In the 70 years since Eugene Aserinsky discovered REM sleep, it's been tied to dreams and memory consolidation, but largely remains a mystery to sleep scientists. Is it even a thing and do we need it?
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