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Dreaming
Dreaming is most vivid and memorable during REM sleep
Young children tend to report dreams with less structure than adult dreams - rather than a narrative structure, they tend to be more still images.
During dreaming, we are more tolerant of lapses of logic, and more creative.
We don't fully know why people dream, but there are some theories:
- Processing the day - dreams reflect our experience during waking hours, helping us consolidate and process the day's events
- Activation-synthesis - random activity during REM sleep produces visual images that we then interpret as a narrative
Practice: Dreaming
Compared to adults, young children's dreams tend to be: