Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)

Re:Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) by e40 on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:54PM (#14133427)

I read somewhere in the last 10 years that dreams were practice for real life situations. After hearing that, when I awake in the middle of a dream, I always test that hypothesis, and sure enough, sometimes is quite plausible.

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Re:Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) by Namrog84 on Monday April 17, 2017 @03:15PM (#14133627)

Most of my dreams involve a lot of supernatural events and scenarios that'd be quite unlikely in real life. Am I preparing for a day soon where magic, superpowers and other super natural events become real?

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Re:Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) by bkkssnn on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:13AM (#14137191)

Perhaps if you where out hunting & gathering instead of watching movies, reading books and playing videogames your dreams would be more "real".

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Re:Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) by e40 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @09:05AM (#14138457)

bkkssnn hit the nail on the head, but I'll leave this here:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-literary-mind/20091...

as a reply to your snarkiness.

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Re:Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) by e40 on Monday April 17, 2017 @05:59PM (#14134797)

Perhaps you missed the "sometimes"...

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Re:Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) by stevenh on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:05PM (#14134836)

This reminds me of how they used GTA V to train driverless cars.

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