Science of Dreaming
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Sleep Spindles - How Do They Come In?
There is this idea that we only dream of may be in one stage of sleep, but actually we dream all the time. And these phases that richard talks about, how do they come in? So first ty answering that, how often do we dream? Em, there's this maybe myth that i think needs debunking, that the brain just switches off when we sleep. em, it doesn't switch off. The brain is actually incredibly busy when we're asleep and what it does is work its way through for different, very different, very precise state called stages 1 to three of non rem sleep and then rem sleep.
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