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August 3, 2012

Strange But True!

Q. “In my dream, I couldn't find my wheelchair but it didn't matter, I was walking to the night club anyway, getting ready to go dancing,” reported a born paraplegic. What's so remarkable about such dreams by people with physical impairments, and what do they say about the classic “continuity hypothesis”?

A. The continuity idea holds that dreams are linked to our waking reality, that they incorporate the thoughts, feelings and events that we experience while awake, says Anil Ananthaswamy in New Scientist magazine. (Obviously there are limits to this, as when people fly in their dreams.)


 
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