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It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

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Much more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscious processing of the day's experience, from the br...more

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However, in part for reasons of organizationalconvenience, modern societies are structured as if all humans had the same sleep requirements; and in ma...more

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This looks very much as if the integration of the day's experience into our memory, the forging of new neural links, is either an easier or a more urg...more

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There is another connection between infancy and dreams: both are followed by amnesia. When we emerge from either state, we have great difficulty remem...more

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Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an act...more

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What functions do dreams serve today? One view, published in a reputable scientific paper, holds that the function of dreams is to wake us up a little...more

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There is some evidence that dreaming is necessary. When people or other mammals are deprived of REM sleep (by awakening them as soon as the characteri...more

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the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.

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The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it.

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As a consequence of the enormous social and technological changes of the last few centuries, the world is not working well. We do not live in traditio...more

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I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space exploration and the highly mechanized destruction of people...more

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I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that they are possible. But where are th...more