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Memories in the Dreaming Brain

Erin Wamsley • TEDxGreenville

Humans have been struggling to understand dreaming for literally millennia. Now, new research in the neurosciences suggests that, rather than mysterious messages from the unconscious mind, dreams may instead reflect the processing of recent memories in the sleeping brain.

Humans have been struggling to understand dreaming for literally millennia. Now, new research in the neurosciences suggests that, rather than mysterious messages from the unconscious mind, dreams may instead reflect the processing of recent memories in the sleeping brain.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxGreenville, an independent event.

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