Claire Gillespie is a freelance writer specializing in mental health. She’s written for The Washington Post, Vice, Health, Women’s Health, SELF, The Huffington Post, and many more.
Emily is a fact checker, editor, and writer who has expertise in psychology content. Tetra Images/Getty We may not know for sure why we dream, but researchers are learning more about what happens while we dream.
A recent study, published in PLoS ONE, confirmed that the kind of dreams we have vary depending on what stage of sleep we’re in. A team from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte’s Brain Institute (IC-UFRN) in Brazil analyzed 133 dream reports (from 20 young adult volunteers) word by word using graph theory, a branch of analysis that
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