(From abcnews.com) Sigmund Freud thought dreams
were a window into our unfulfilled sexual desires. But the dreams of
video game players suggest they have a more practical role: helping us
to learn new skills.
"It really looks like if you're not dreaming about it, you're not
getting better," says Robert Stickgold of Harvard Medical School, who
carried out one of the video game studies.
The studies don't prove that dreaming about games makes players better. But they strongly suggest that dreaming and learning are intertwined.
That sleep
can help with learning and memory is well established. What's more, the
more people dream during the light sleep characterised by rapid eye
movements (REM), the better they recall memories. But whether the
specific content of dreams plays a role in this sleep-learning process
wasn't clear.
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Tags: learning, cognition, research, psychology, gaming
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