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Rapid eye movements during sleep reveal where mice look in dreams

25 August 2022

In mice, jerky eye movements in the REM phase of sleep correlate with recordings of brain activity in cells that track head orientation
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The dreams you forget are the most important for learning

1 June 2018

Dreams help us store memories, enabling us to learn. Now a study has revealed that it’s the boring dreams we have during deep sleep that are the most important

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