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• Stress neurotransmitters in the brain are much less active during the REM stage of sleep even during dreams of traumatic experiences.
• This made some scientists to think that one purpose of dreaming is to take the edge off painful experiences to allow for psychological healing.
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• One theory is that dreaming helps with sleep's memory-processing function. During sleep, the brain sorts through information gathered during the day, then decides what to keep and what connections to make between new information.
• Another theory is that drea...

One of the areas of the brain that’s most active during dreaming is the amygdala - the part of the brain associated with the survival instinct and the fight-or-flight response.

One theory suggests dreams may be the brain’s way of getting you ready to deal wi...