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All I know is my dog sometimes yips in his sleep, and it can be fairly loud-- I will forever wonder what he's yipping at, or how that behavior could possibly be selected for. Brains are weird.
> It is notable that approximately 50% to 70% of the time subjects report having a dream upon a sudden waking during sleep.
I vaguely remember an Indian Paper (or an author with an Indian name) that made the same claims and it got destroyed on HN. But my memory may fail me.
Oh wow. Cell. Please also see previous dicussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23956715 I vaguely remember an Indian Paper (or an author with an Indian name) that made the same claims and it got destroyed on HN. But my memory may fail me.
All I know is my dog sometimes yips in his sleep, and it can be fairly loud-- I will forever wonder what he's yipping at, or how that behavior could possibly be selected for. Brains are weird.
Is there even anything that preys enough on wolves where enough of them are being killed by it that the sleep barking would be selected against?
“Evolved to assist” and also most of the comments here that aren’t discussion of noticing animals dreaming.
Read something recently theorizing dreams are to prevent the visual processing part of the brain from being repurposed when we sleep...
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I have a sleeping disorder and if I wake up and remember having a dream I almost always also feel well rested.
I remember 1-3 dreams every night. All my dreams are vivid dreams, where I know they are dreams while they are happening and I even have some degree of control over the content.
Maybe lucid dreaming overrides the benefits of sleep since the mind is actively engaged again.
It's all fascinating, and there are no real answers whatsoever.
Also, side questions:
1. Is your working memory pretty good? What about your IQ? 2. How vivid are these dreams and how logically-sequential are they? I.e. can you remember a clear chain of events from the dream?