The Future of Dream Research

Nexta besli proposes that dreaming is a unique form of sleep dependent memory evolution. The brain tries to extract new knowledge from existing information through the discovery and strengthening of loosely associated, unexpected and often previously unexplored associations. In rem sleep, you have reduced or absent levels of a normodulator called seritonin. And this probably creates a state in which the brain is biased towards accepting dream associations as meaningful. We need to have these experiences for the sleeping brain to actually make sense of the world around us.