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Something You Should Know

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The Defensive Activation Theory of Dreams

If you're blindfolded and then put in a brain scanner within about an hour, hearing and touch start invading the visual system. So what we realized was the system needed a way to defend itself against takeover. And that is what dreams are about. It's very specific circuitry that just slams activity into the visual part of the brain every 90 minutes.

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