The Most Common Dream in Every Country - Morning Life
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The Most Common Dream in Every Country - Morning Life
As you might imagine, almost all REM dreams fall into one of these two categories—90 to 100 percent, depending on the study. In contrast, self-representation is seen in only two-thirds of non-REM dream reports and in somewhere between a quarter and two-thirds of sleep-onset hypnagogic dreams, depending on exactly how long after sleep onset the repo
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