The dreams you forget are the most important for learning
Dreaming when we sleep helps us learn new information, and now a study has found that it’s the boring dreams we have during the deepest stages of sleep that are the most important for this.
When we go to sleep, our brain-waves slow down and we enter progressively deeper stages of sleep, before returning to lighter sleep and entering a rapid-eye-movement (REM) stage. This cycle is repeated several times a night.
Until recently, we thought dreams only occurred during REM sleep. We now know that’s not …