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#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind

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The Dreams in REM Sleep

The dreams that occur in REM sleep are when we divorce emotion from our prior experiences. They tend to have very little epinephrine is available in the brain at that time. So you were essentially going through therapy in your sleep, self-induced therapy. It's like trauma therapy where you try and divorce the emotion from the experience. Pot smokers experience this a lot more than non-pot smokers.

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