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From what I remember, all of the phases of sleep are essential — if you suppress any of them, the person becomes unwell (possibly even dies). That includes the
by wiml 5y ago
From what I remember, all of the phases of sleep are essential — if you suppress any of them, the person becomes unwell (possibly even dies). That includes the REM phase in which we sleep.
I don't know if you can arrange to have healthy REM with zero dreaming, though.
- kayamon 5y agoI used to dream a lot; in the past year since I started taking THC as medication I haven't had any. I put this down to the THC basically letting you dream while you're awake, which seems to be more effective than doing it while asleep. As far as I can tell the purpose of dreams seems to be a way for the brain to visualize its own structure and repair itself (i.e. retraining your pattern matching on other inputs, not just visual).