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Key takeaways from Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains
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we refer to the brain’s plasticity as “livewiring” to spotlight how this vast system of 86 billion neurons and 0.2 quadrillion connections rewires itself every moment of your life.
our loss of a sense is only temporary, then the rapid conquest of brain territory may not be so helpful. And this, we propose, is why we dream.
blind and sighted people alike experience activity in the same region of their brain during dreams; they differ only in the senses that are processed there.
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