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QoW: What is the science behind dreaming?

Writer: Biomolecuties
Biomolecuties
Jan 17, 2021
1 min read

Pleasant ones or nightmares, dreams never fail to baffle us! What do you think is the science behind dreaming; what connects them with REM sleep?


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Biomolecuties
Biomolecuties
Jan 17, 2021

Suparna says:


According to me, if I am here to discuss dreams then "Dreams are unnecessarily necessary". Sleep refreshes our body but what we do to refresh our mind which controls our body. When we are awake we are conscious but when we sleep we tend to enter in subconscious state or a state which is unimaginable/unpredictable, the phenomenon which we can't master easily .
As discussed earlier about the stages of sleep i.e, REM sleep or the rapid eye movement and NREM sleep or the non-rapid eye movement. After a deep sleep we tend to have REM sleep where our eyes move rapidly while sleeping. It is stated that REM sleep is "paradoxical" because of its similarities to wakefulness…

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