"Dreams might not be omens or prophecies in a mystical sense, but they do have a distinct psychological predictive power." An excerpt that reminds me of Mary Meeker's prediction that most of our search will not be via text, but rather via images and speech:
REM sleep emerges from evolutionarily ancient brain networks. All mammals (including humans) have REM sleep with its characteristic rapid eye movements. Animals lack the language skills to support complex thoughts but it is likely that they think through images.
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more in Aeon.
