Sleep is hard enough to understand. Scientists still don’t fully know why we spend about a third of our lives in an unconscious state.
So perhaps it makes sense that we don’t really have a handle on the hallucinations that happen during that period, or dreaming.
Still, new research published in Communications Psychology suggested that there may be method to the chaos.
They found that “stable individual traits and incidental experiences jointly shape dream semantics” – in other words, life events and personal characteristics might matter more than we realised.
What might dreams say about us?
The researchers looked at over 3,70...
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