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126: Matthew Walker | Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Jordan Harbinger Show
What's Going on in Our Dreams?
Dreams are such a weird thing. They seem like they're really long, even though it's only been four minutes. But for both psychological and biological reasons that state seems to be actually optimal. What we've discovered is that dreaming serves at least two different functions for the brain. The first is creativity, that during deep sleep is when we we cement those individual memories. That's the hitting the save button sod of function. However, rem sleep then takes those newly, freshly minted memories in the brain and starts to collide them with all of the back catalogue of information that you've got stored up. It's sort of ar i don't know, it's almost like memory pin ball
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