Re:Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the ...
by taneq on Sunday June 10, 2018 @08:55PM
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My guess was that dreaming is just cross-talk while our brain consolidates and archives our memories from the day, and uses them to train for the next day.
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Re:Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the ...
by Jeff_Brown on Monday June 11, 2018 @10:19PM
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Even if dreams arose as interference, given that evolution "tries" to capitalize on every possible opportunity, doesn't it seem likely that there's useful information in them? The ego controls the self all day in a process that discards lots of information; at night, other processes (perhaps that were ongoing in the day, or perhaps new ones) might be able to "speak" and be heard where in the waking state they would be ignored.