Can an epic dream be compressed into a minute?
Studies suggest that if telling the story takes 45 minutes, it will take you 45 minutes to dream it. As the night goes along, you have REM episode number one and episode number two, and the memories that occur in episode number one are recent and the memories from episode number four are from the remote past. That’s one of the clues that REM has something to do with memory, among other functions. Something irrelevant occurs during the day that I don’t give a second thought to, then it appears in a dream that night. Why? Some say that one of the things dreams do is take all the irrelevant stuff and strip it from the memory system. So it appears transiently in dreams and then disappears forever. What is the role of nightmares? A nightmare is a failure of the REM system to diffuse the intensity of a painful emotional experience. Let’s say you’re a combat veteran and saw your friends go up in smoke before your eyes. How do you integrate that without destroying your self-construct or your v
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