A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain


	A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain

arifsali

11-13-2009 9:07 AM

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“I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses,”

Once people are awake, he argued, their brain essentially revises its dream images to match what it sees, hears and feels " the dreams are “corrected” by the senses.

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