Dreams: Emotional, Cognitive Gold

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How to optimise the cognitive benefits of dreams and sleep

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Dreams allow us not only to explore themes and challenges of our day , but to step into the what-ifs of tomorrow .

The vivid dreams that take place during our rapid eye movement ( REM ) sleep, in the second half of the night , deliver when it comes to building our emotional resilience.

If we wake up sleep-deprived, we start our day with a breakdown in communication between the brain’s rational, cognitive power house that is the pre-frontal cortex, and the emotionally reactive amygdala.

This can leave our emotions running the show with a negative lean.

Engineers use sensory stimulation to augment sleep and dreams, for example by using sounds and scents to boost learning, memory, brainwaves, creativity and to create happier dreams.

With targeted memory reactivation (TMR), engineers might link sounds to studying a particular topic, or an improved ending to a nightmare, during the day and then reactivate these at night .

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