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News & Research:
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Why Do We Dream? A New
Theory on How It Protects Our Brains - Time, 12/29/20 -
"the brain preserves
the territory of the visual cortex by keeping it active at night. In our
“defensive activation theory,” dream sleep exists to keep neurons in the visual
cortex active, thereby combating a takeover by the neighboring senses. In this
view, dreams are primarily visual precisely because this is the only sense that
is disadvantaged by darkness. Thus, only the visual cortex is vulnerable in a
way that warrants internally-generated activity to preserve its territory ... We
suggest that dream sleep exists, at least in part, to prevent the other senses
from taking over the brain’s visual cortex when it goes unused. Dreams are the
counterbalance against too much flexibility. Thus, although dreams have long
been the subject of song and story, they may be better understood as the strange
lovechild of brain plasticity and the rotation of the planet"
- What Physicians
Need to Know About Dreams and Dreaming - Medscape, 10/19/12
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To
learn better, take a nap (and don't forget to dream) - Science Daily,
4/22/10 - "What's got us really excited, is that
after nearly 100 years of debate about the function of dreams, this study
tells us that dreams are the brain's way of processing, integrating and
really understanding new information ... Dreams are a clear indication that
the sleeping brain is working on memories at multiple levels, including ways
that will directly improve performance"
- Dreams Can Solve
Problems - WebMD, 12/23/04
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Patients' Dreams May Reveal Psychotherapy Progress - Doctor's Guide,
7/4/04
- Creative People
Remember More Dreams - WebMD, 6/27/03
- Dreams May Hold
Key to Beating dream - WebMD, 1/18/02
- Freudian Slip: Do
Dreams Have a Role in Psychiatry? - WebMD, 3/12/01 -
"But dreams can be used, he contends, to help a
patient understand that the conflicting emotions he is currently
experiencing are complicated by older, unrecognized emotions that are still
meaningful, but just beyond his conscious grasp, a bit like a word at the
tip of the tongue that just won't come to mind ... dream interpretation
won't cure a psychiatric disorder the way that penicillin will cure a
bacterial infection. But dreams may be signposts along the road that can
point the way to improvement ... Stickgold likens the process of dreaming to
doing a search on the world wide web: "If you do a web search and go down
the list of items, the first two or three are usually spot on, more or less
what you were looking for," he says. "Then there are four or five where you
say, 'That's not what I was looking for, but I know why those came up.' And
if you keep going down there are about 50 where you want to say, 'I didn't
ask for these at all; I don't know where they came from.' The brain is just
sort of futzing and doing some [formula] to try to find things that fit
together, and maybe it works and maybe it doesn't." ... "The trick with
using dreams in psychiatry, from my perspective, is that you have to not get
lost in theory and not get lost in over-interpretation,""
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Study shows why your dreams are so weird - CNN, 10/13/00
- What Dreams May
Come Come Not From Waking Memory - WebMD, 10/12/00
- How the brain turns
realityinto dreams - MSNBC, 10/12/00
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