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 Paris Brain and Spine Institute, 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 recount a dream if they are awake for a REM sleep phase, and 50 to 75% when waking up at another time of the night. Although 20% of the population claim to very rarely remember dreams, only 0.38% of us claim to never remember them. However, in all of the 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 it, 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 the others“explains the person in charge of this work, Isabelle Arnulf, on the Inserm site. The explanation would rather lie in the system”of memory encoding, just after waking from REM sleep, without further memory impairment” according to the neurologist.
The usefulness of dreams remains little known: they could participate in the acquisition of certain memories and play a role in managing our emotions. Anyway: sweet dreams!
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