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Oneirology Part 2 (DREAMS) with G. William Domhoff

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Is Your Brain Heating Up When the Temperature Is High?

A few folks wanted to know why physiologically we dream. Are we defragmenting our drives? Is it like cleaning up after a party in sleepy John's words? Dreaming is how the brain cleans out the lint filter, Turfos. For decades, centuries, people have looked for sleep as somehow resting something or it's getting rid of poisons and toxins.

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