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Read something recently theorizing dreams are to prevent the visual processing part of the brain from being repurposed when we sleep...

• throw1234651234 5y ago
  That's a very interesting hypothesis actually.
• nucleogenesis 5y ago
  This is what I want to read an article about
• elliekelly 5y ago
  Can you explain what that means? Being repurposed for what and why would that be something we’ve evolved to avoid?
  • deleted 5y ago
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  • jtsiskin 5y ago
    Bitcoin mining
    • aswegs8 5y ago
      Damn cryptojackers
  • benp84 5y ago
    It's like how the visual neurons of blind people get repurposed for other senses. Turns out this happens so quickly we can start to lose visual function in just the 8 hours our eyes are closed while we sleep. Can't remember source but heard this theory on a podcast.
• Lyapunov_Lover 5y ago
  Yeah, I think that's David Eagleman's idea.
• alexanderdmitri 5y ago
  Related article: https://time.com/5925206/why-do-we-dream/ https://time.com/5925206/why-do-we-dream/