The Strange Science of Why We Dream

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It could be rather a lot simpler to check the science of dreaming if we weren’t asleep each time we did it. Why will we dream? What does dreaming do for our brains? How did dreaming evolve? Right here’s a have a look at the present theories from psychology and neuroscience.

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