Why Do We Dream?
Your brain builds a convincing world every night, then clears nearly all of it before you wake. So why do we dream?
Most of us have between four and seven separate dreams a night and forget up to 95% of them within minutes. Jen, Chris and Matt work through what is actually happening in the brain during REM sleep, why the forgetting is a consequence of the mechanism rather than a memory failure, and what the best current evidence says dreaming is for. The episode covers the four regions that swing out of balance during REM, the 2024 Scientific Reports study on dreaming and emotional memory…
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