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The first is actually creativity, because it's during REM sleep and dreaming specifically when the brain starts to collide all of the information that you've recently learned together with all of this back catalog of autobiographical information that you've got stored up in the brain.

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The second benefit of dream sleep is essentially a form of overnight therapy. It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having.

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There are thousands of anecdotes of creative greats having eureka moments when they dream.

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dream recall is thought to require some amount of wakefulness during the night for the vision to be encoded in longer-term memory.

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Dream themselves exist first in working memory, or the memory we use to hold and manipulate thought fragments.

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REM (rapid eye movement) is the stage of sleep in which dreaming usually occurs.

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Dreams are potentially massive indicators of your overall sleep health, and, more specifically, your REM sleep health.

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The process of hammering and forging our daily experiences into long-term memory through REM sleep is how we learn to master any sport, art, musical instrument, surgery, etc. through daily practice.

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The occasional nightmare is considered a dream that’s simply more frightening or upsetting. Nightmares tend to be caused by stress, anxiety, or sometimes as a reaction to certain medications.

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if you have nightmares frequently, you could have a sleeping disorder.

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Regularly occurring scary dreams can be labeled a sleeping disorder if the nightmares: -cause you to be anxious about going to sleep -lead to frequent disruptions of your sleep -bring about other sleeping or psychological problem

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Sleep hygiene involves ensuring both your habits and sleep environment are ideal for quality rest.

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Other approaches can focus on routines or working on areas of your life that could be contributing to stress or fear.

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The dream-deprived nod off quickly, sleep soundly and emerge from sleep fully awake.

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repeating the phrase “I’m going to remember my dreams” three times before you drift off to sleep. And keep a notebook and pen by your bed. Both preparations establish recall as a priority.

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