No matter how hard you try, it’s impossible to remember your dreams. And yet you do! This is confirmed by a study by the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière in Paris, attached to the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm).
The researchers who conducted this work estimate that 80 to 90% of people can relate a dream if they are awake for a while. REM phase, and 50 to 75% if you wake up at another time of the night. Although 20% of the population say they rarely remember dreams, only 0.38% of us say they never remember them. However, in all patients, even in those who say they never dream, dreamlike behaviors have been observed. These are acts performed or sounds emitted while sleeping and which prove that the person is dreaming.
If they don’t remember, is it a memory problem ? Apparently not, since people who say they never dream present “the same level of memory and the same cognitive profile as others“explains the person in charge of this work, Isabelle Arnulf, on the Inserm site. The explanation would rather lie in the system”memory encoding, just after waking up from REM sleep, without any other memory impairment“according to the neurologist.
Little is known about the usefulness of dreams: they could participate in the acquisition of certain memories and play a role in managing our emotions. Anyway: sweet dreams!
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