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Dreams Are Like a Happy Cheese Cake of Evolution
To bill, dreams are like a happy cheese cake of evolution. What do other scientists think? I talkd to deirdra barrett who studies dreams at harvard. She agrees with bill that a lot of dreams are just cognitive fluff. Unlike bill, she still believes that dreams could be adaptive. They could serve some sort of evolutionary purpose. Maybe not like a huge super highway, but not nothing either.