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Dreams

In Our Time: Science

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Introduction

Despite Freud's work, there is still no agreement in neuroscience as to the functional mechanism of dreaming. What is the mental circuitry that creates our dreams? If they have no meaning, why do we dream them? And is the tight turning when neuroscientists starting to find reasons to take dreams seriously again? With me to discuss the neuroscience of dreams is Mark Solms, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Martin Conway, Professor of Psychology at Durham University.

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