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When Brains Dream Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

Antonio Zadra

A comprehensive, eye-opening exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them. Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when nineteenth-century scientists first attempted to unravel the...

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The host highlighted the title, noting that its authors argued for moving beyond mystical interpretations of dreaming toward a biological understanding, especially in the context of changes in dreaming during Covid. The discussion referenced the book as a source for this perspective.

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The host referenced the book When Brains Dream, noting that Stickgold and McCarley wrote in it about moving beyond mystical views of dreaming toward a biological understanding.

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when ... wrote in their book When Brains Dream, No longer was dreaming just a mystical mental phenomenon that seemed to come from nowhere, except maybe the hidden resources of our psyche. Suddenly there was a biology of dreaming.

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