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Understand Your Dreams - Prof. Mark Solms

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The Dissociation Between Dreaming and REM Sleep

This suggests that dreaming and REM sleep are not the same thing. This was even more strongly confirmed by virtue of the fact that I found that damage here is a lot of the damage here in what's called the parietal occipital junction. That means on the ABCs that I spoke of that this part of the brain cannot be the part that's responsible for dreaming, that there is in fact a dissociation between REM sleep and dreams. Although REM sleep is lost with damage here in all species, we can determine in human beings that dreaming is not lost.

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