Why Do We Dream?
Discovery
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Do You Have a Dream Bank?
Sleep scientists rigged up subjects with brain monitering headgear, and then let them sleep peacefully before repeatedly waking them up with an alarm. This led chief researcher, francesca siclari to find a super alert area of the dreaming brain that they call the hot. When subjects report a dream were in experience, the brain activity changes in this pussurea hot zone. And we found that when subjects dreamt, this air was libit more awake, and brain activity was much faster. Libit more like wakefulness, as opposed to when subjects had no experience at all where Brain activity was very slow. If i have 50 of your dreams, i think i know a
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