What dreams are made of

Subject: What dreams are made of Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:31 am

The dreams of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, involved a pale student kneeling beside a corpse that was jerking back to life. Paul McCartney's contained the melody of Yesterday, while director James Cameron's inspired the Terminator films.

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With their eerie mixture of the familiar and the bizarre, it is easy to look for meaning in these nightly wanderings. But why do our brains take these journeys and why do they contain such outlandish twists and turns?

Dreams are often silent movies; just half contain traces of sounds.

Unfortunately for armchair psychoanalysts, Sigmund Freud's attempts to interpret dreams remain hotly disputed. Nevertheless, neuroscientists and psychologists have recently taken big strides in understanding the way the brain builds our dreams and the factors that shape those curious stories. Along the way, they have found startling hints that our use of technology may be permanently changing the nature of this fundamental human experience.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/what-dreams-are-made-of-20130322-2gkvg.html#ixzz2OoUxi2Tr

What dreams are made of

What dreams are made of

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