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‘Yeah right, in your dreams!’

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Today, I’m referring not to your “hopes and dreams” (which, yes, are extremely important), but to those experiences that primarily occur during the sleep phase of Rapid Eye Movement (REM). Healthy sleep and dreaming often go hand-in-hand. Dreams have important functions, appearing to be involved in “offline” reorganization/consolidation of memory, emotional processing, and learning. Freud […]