Ep11 "What does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
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The Role of Dreams in Memory Consolidation
All mammals dream and all birds and reptiles, they all exhibit REM sleep. So why is this so conserved across the whole animal kingdom? Well, there are various ideas that have been proposed for why we dream. But recently, my colleague and I proposed a very new kind of theory about dreaming.
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