The new study provide insight into how our imagination and dreams function.
Have you ever noticed that our eyes move back and forth during sleep? Well, researchers may have figured out the reason behind that.
“We showed that these eye movements aren’t random. They’re coordinated with what’s happening in the virtual dream world of the mouse,” said, a professor of physiology at the University of California and the study's senior author. The study's findings support the notion that dreams are a way of integrating information gathered during the day and show that the same brain regions, of which there are many, coordinate during both we're awake and dreaming.
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