Rapid eye movement during sleep triggers the parts of our brain involved in processing visual images while we are awake, a new study shows.
The finding, published today in Nature Communications, may help explain why we can remember vivid dreams when we are woken during this phase of sleep.
The relationship between dreaming and eye movement during sleep has been a long-standing unsolved question in sleep research, says co-author and neuroscientist Dr Yuval Nir.
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