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Nature 437, 1286-1289 (27 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/nature04288; Published online 26 October 2005
What are the memory sources of dreaming?
Tore A. Nielsen1,2 & Philippe Stenstrom1,3
Abstract
Investigators since Freud have appreciated that memories of the people, places, activities and emotions of daily life are reflected in dreams but are typically so fragmented that their predictability is nil. The mechanisms that translate such memories into dream images remain largely unknown. New research targeting relationships between dreaming, memory and the hippocampus is producing a new theory to explain how, why and when we dream of waking life events.
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