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鈥淭hey called it REM sleep for years,鈥 Ursula Le Guin wrote, in her novel The Lathe of Heaven. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a hell of a lot more than that, though. It鈥檚 a third state of being.鈥
Dreaming represents a state in between consciousness and unconsciousness, and this year I鈥檝e been trying to get on top of what we know about this universal and mysterious experience.
I went to a dream conference in Arizona, and spent the night in a dream lab in Swansea, UK. There I learned about research providing evidence, for the first time, that explains the…
