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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by Michelle Ikejiani
Michelle Ikejiani
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When I dream It feels so real.
When I dream it feels so real. I sometimes even wake up with a jump scare. I'm not quite sure why we dream yet but I think I can relate sometimes on how we can sometimes get so into it that we sometimes we look at it like it's real.
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vania sofia chacon paredes
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Yes, in some ocasións the dream feels real
Olga Aurora Hernandez De La Torre
Olga Aurora Hernandez De La Torre
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Yes, many times I feel like in real life
