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Science of Dreaming

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Is Dreaming Associated With Memory?

One theory is that you are reliving events which are draumatic to some extent, and youare knocking off the emotional edges of them by repeating. Another idea is that we're actually solving problems in our dreams. And certainly, people do come up with very creative solutions s immediately after they've dremt. So i suspect it doesn't have one purpose, it probably has several. No, but it doesn't stop us speculating. There's lots and lots of thoughts about it.

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