Science Is Getting Closer to Understanding What Goes on Inside The Mind When We Dream

[rangerrebew]

Science Is Getting Closer to Understanding What Goes on Inside The Mind When We Dream

Here's why dreams matter.
ROWAN HOOPER, THE WASHINGTON POST
8 APR 2018

Dreams are so strange and carry so much significance to us that we often feel the need to tell people about our nocturnal adventures, sometimes at tedious length.

But if you understand what goes on inside the brain as dreams take their course, they start to make a lot more sense. And dreams are much more important than you might think.

https://www.sciencealert.com/science-is-getting-closer-to-answering-what-really-goes-on-inside-the-human-mind-when-we-dream

[The_Reader_David]

I would observe that the headline writer has implicitly taken a stance on some very deep and open questions in the philosophy of mind.  The headline says "mind", the article says "brain".  Absent a really satisfying physicalist solution to the problem of consciousness, identifying the two is a bit tendentious.