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The Function of Dreams
We now have large numbers of patients in whom dreaming has stopped completely due to circumscribed damage to very particular brain structures. The heart of the problem that we're discussing now is what is the function of dreams. Why do we dream? What is the essential causal mechanism of dreams too? So I think we need to ask ourselves, what does this part of the brain do? Because clearly it's absolutely crucial to everything that dreaming is about. It's a motivational structure. Neurobiologists call it the seeking system or the wanting system or the reward system and so on. We've got to motivation. And can you just take that on? Yes, it speaks directly to this issue. Can you