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The science of dreams, with Sidarta Ribeiro

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What Is Paradoxical Sleep?

When we are during ramsleep, and that, i must say, it's for adults. For children it's more complicated. Weare very likely to be having a very vivid dream. This is what the french call paradoxical sleep. And why paradoxical? Because even though the body is very still, the brain is very active. Some parts of the brain,. they have to do with with emotions, memories and inthe visual representations of those, are quite active. So as we go through the night, we have less and less of the non dreaming sleep, the so called slow way sleep, and and more and more of the dreaming sleep - known as ran sleep.

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