Memories of life events – so-called episodic memories – are stored in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, and in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep signals coming out of the hippocampus are shut off.
There’s a good reason why dreams are so skittish and peculiar. We explore this troubling issue in depth here, but for now, let’s address some common questions about the night-time hallucinations we call dreams. Your friends will thank you for it. Dreams are much more important than you might think – and we seem to be having less of them. But if you understand what goes on inside the brain as dreams take their course, things start to make a lot more sense – and should make for more interesting dinner conversation than unburdening yourself about your mind’s nocturnal adventures. Dreams are so strange and carry so much significance to us that we often feel the need to tell people about them, sometimes at tedious length.
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