Why do we dream? - Amy Adkins
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In the 3rd millennium BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets. In the years since, we haven't paused in our quest to understand why we dream. And while we still don’t have any definitive answers, we have some theories. Amy Adkins reveals the top seven reasons why we might dream.
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Ruvisela Uribe
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Have you ever had a dream that it felt so real and you woke up scared or even sometimes cried.
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Lucas Singsheim
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Yea I was dreaming my friends were taking me home and the thing is they thought I was a nerd then they left me there and everybody was laughing at me when they left and said loser
Fernanda Davila
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I dont cry but it feel so real
vania sofia chacon paredes
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Yes, that happened a lot when I was little
Olga Aurora Hernandez De La Torre
Olga Aurora Hernandez De La Torre
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Yes, one day I dream that my parents die.
도 깨깨
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Yeah. I was dreaming about all of my friends hating me so much. Thanks for my phone alarm, I woke up from that horrible nightmare, but my eyes were full of tears. Even it was months ago, the dream is still very vivid to me.
