Breakthrough Could Enable Others to Watch Your Dreams and Memories [Video]
September 22nd, 2011 |
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Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have reconstructed the internal “movie” that plays in a person’s head. To re-create dynamic visual experiences, they used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain activity of volunteers (the other members of the research team) as they watched short movie clips (left panel in the video [...]
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Night sight: Our eyes scan the action in our dreams
June 7th, 2010 |
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Our eyes swivel restlessly in their sockets during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, an aptly named period of intense dreaming that makes up 20 to 25 percent of total sleep time. Whether this fidgeting is random or serves a function has never been clear, but a new study suggests that our eyes shift their gaze [...]
Keep reading »To sleep, perchance to dream–and learn
April 22nd, 2010 |
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Dreams might be helping your brain do more than express Freudian fixations or practice escapes from prehistoric predators. They are there, in part, to help you learn, according to a new study from Harvard University. The idea that dreams can help with creative problem-solving has been discussed for decades, along with observations that sleep boosts [...]
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In Case There Was Any Doubt
April 21st, 2010 |
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Animals dream, too! It’s definitely not a seizure, and it’s definitely not random motor actions. Those actions are totally coordinated. Poor dog must have been dreaming about a dog fight or something.
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