Daytime mind wandering is linked to dream content while asleep, study finds
the dreaming brain was not simply recapitulating or re-creating exactly what happened to them in the maze. Rather, the dream algorithm was cherry-picking salient fragments of the prior learning experience, and then attempting to place those new experiences within the back catalog of preexisting knowledge. Like an insightful interviewer, dreaming ta
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Our default waking mode (and also during dreaming phases of sleep) is not a brain at rest, but what is known as mind wandering.
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Even sleep is no barrier to the brain’s story-making processes. Dreams feel real because they’re made of the same hallucinated neural models we live inside when awake.