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The dreams you forget are the most important for learning

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 …