Essentials: Understand and Use Dreams to Learn and Forget

1053.819 - 1077.511 Andrew Huberman

you might say, well, duh, but something in our brain needs to solidify those relationships and make sure that the certain relationships don't exist. And it appears that REM sleep is important for that because when you deprive yourself or people of REM, they start seeing odd associations. And we know that if people are deprived of REM sleep for very long periods of time, they start hallucinating.