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June 11, 2010

Strange But True!

Q. When might your Dreams of Doom portend quite the opposite?

A. When Doom is the popular video game and you're a dedicated player, says Ewen Callaway in New Scientist magazine. The fact that sleep aids learning and memory is well known, but how does the specific content of dreams play into this? To find out, Brazilian neuroscientists Sidarta Ribeiro and Andre Pantoja had volunteers wear scalp electrodes in the laboratory overnight after playing the visceral, monster-filled, shoot-'em-up game. Then in the morning technicians roused the volunteers during rapid-eye-movement sleep — the stage of most dreaming — to be questioned about the presence of any potential Doom “intrusions” there.


 
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