More googling ….

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Tiffi is so curious about dreaming and why we dream. Luck is on her side. The first article that she opens has some really good information. 

‘The brain thinks, makes memories, and solves problems. It observes new information. It processes that information by determining what’s important, what’s not, and what’s connected to something you already know. And then the brain either stores that information or dumps what’s not useful, explains Robert Stickgold, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Sleep and Cognition, who studies the role of cognition in sleep.

Even the really weird dreams may just be part of the brain’s process of elimination-approach to problem solving, according to Stickgold.

A lot of memory processing happens during sleep, he says. The brain is filing away new memories, deciding which ones to store and which ones not to. If we presume the brain is indeed problem-solving during dreaming, it’s going to look through all of those files (sometimes the ones you just put there and sometimes the really old, dusty ones from a while back) and try to find something useful.

“Your brain is looking for associated memories that are relevant to recent events,” Stickgold explains.’ (Info here)

She has to take a break and go get something to eat. Her tummy is growling.  

Let’s continue to the next part of the story - More memories surface 

Start at the beginning – Tiffi’s Memoirs