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Monday Aug 17, 2020
The Science of Dreams
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Science has yet to uncover the answer to why we experience dreams. It has, however, discovered a myriad of other things about them. Discussed in this episode: The cardinal features of dreaming, rapid and non-rapid eye-movement sleep, lucid dreaming, the history of dream research, Sigmund Freud's theories of dreaming, Hobson and McCarley's Activation-Synthesis theory of dreaming, advancements in neuroscience that inform present-day dream research, neurophysiological mechanisms of sleep and dreams, and current theories that attempt to explain why we dream.
Further reading: J. Allan Hobson, "Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford, 2002), Matthew Walker, "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams" (Penguin, 2017).
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