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Why and How Do We Dream?

The Joy of Why

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Dreams Play a Role in Our Understanding of the World

Your brain intentionally keeps much of the information of what's going to be happening next and how things unfold away from you. Why? Because it needs to know how you are going to react to this ever evolving narrative. Which dreams also have all kinds of shifts in their structures, youknowin times of place and locations and transformations. But this is a reflection of all the weak associations that your brain is exploring. And so we think that, again, dreams play a role in our understandin of the world.

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