The Neuroscience of Dreaming
That Neuroscience Guy
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Dreaming and Memory Consolidation
The majority of dreaming occurs during rem sleep. The most prominent theory about why we dream ties it to memory consolidation. During the day, episodic memories are things that have happened in your life. And when an episodic memory is forming, a part of the brain called the hippocampus basically ties the memory together.
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