The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the point is that rapid eye movement sleep so called REM sleep is more abundant in the second half of the night we know that the dreams associated with rapid eye movement sleep are more emotionally Laden and that those dreams and those emotional states are actually important for discarding the emotional load of previous days experiences it's a sort of a uh natural trauma therapy if you will
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And there are, of course, I have to highlight the fact that getting sufficient rapid eye movement sleep we also know is very important for removing the emotional load of traumatic experiences and intrusive thoughts.
the intensity of our dreams shifts dramatically they become more emotionally Laden and that whole process of having those rapid eye movement um sleep Associated dreams is strongly associated with the removal of an emotional load
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