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Why do we dream?

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Dreams Are Essential to Our Survival

In the 19 fifties, researchers were studying sleep and noticed that there was a period during the night where it looked like people's eyes were like darting around underneath their eyelids. And these are the periods of er most likely to report they had been dreaming. So that means that dreams are essential to our survival in some way. Wrighte: That we evolve to have them. Yes, froud really thought dreams were this corps part of our psychology. Our deeper motives are deeper secrets.

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