{"id":201,"date":"2025-01-04T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/the-big-idea-what-if-dreaming-is-the-whole-point-of-sleep-neuroscience-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:15:24","slug":"the-big-idea-what-if-dreaming-is-the-whole-point-of-sleep-neuroscience-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/the-big-idea-what-if-dreaming-is-the-whole-point-of-sleep-neuroscience-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The big idea: what if dreaming is the whole point of sleep? | Neuroscience | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dreams are the product of profound changes the brain automatically undergoes each night. The rational, executive network in the brain is switched off, and the imaginative, visual and emotional parts are dialled way up. As a result, the dreaming mind is given free rein in a way that has no parallel in our waking lives. We couldn\u2019t think this way when we are awake even if we tried.<br \/>\nFar from being dormant, the sleeping brain burns glucose and pulses with electricity to produce dreams. But why devote this kind of energy to the creation of wildly imaginative and highly emotional nocturnal experiences for an audience of one \u2013 especially when they often seem nonsensical?<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/apr\/22\/the-big-idea-what-if-dreaming-is-the-whole-point-of-sleep\">amp.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/apr\/22\/the-big-idea-what-if-dreaming-is-the-whole-point-of-sleep<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams are the product of profound changes the brain automatically undergoes each night. The rational, executive network in the brain is switched off, and the imaginative, visual and emotional parts are dialled way up. As a result, the dreaming mind is given free rein in a way that has no parallel in our waking lives. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}