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“Dreams play a role in emotional regulation”

October 26, 2024

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By replaying intense phenomena of waking life, dreams allow us to evacuate the emotions relating to them, to stage them using metaphors or even to introduce positivity into a negative experience.

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“ If today's humans dream, it is because the dream has an adaptive dimension." explains researcher Perrine Ruby.

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This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir ndeg933, dated November 2024.

Perrine Ruby is an Inserm researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center.

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