“The Mind at Night” by Andrea Rock

“… most of us recall no more than 1 percent of our dreams.”
“According to the Dartmouth neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, 98 percent of what the brain does is outside of conscious awareness, while a review of scientific evidence on this question published in 1999 conluded that 95 percent of our actions are unconsciously determined.”
“Studying the bizzare [...]

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“Dreaming” by J. Allan Hobson

“Waking and dreaming are two states of consciousness, with differences that depend on chemistry.”
“We can safely conclude that REM sleep dreaming is mediated by acetylcholine when noradrenaline and serotonin are at very low levels.”
“Here is a sample hypothesis: we can trigger memory fragments with acetylcholine but cannot make new ones without noradrenaline and serotonin.”
“We still [...]

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