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Watson, Lyall - On dreams and learning
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006078
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Lyall Watson
Analysis of dream content shows that they do not necessarily form a continuing story that runs in episodes throughout the night, but they do tend to start off with a subject related to the experiences of the previous day before shifting to earlier periods of life. This has given rise to the theory that dreams help a person assimilate the events of the day by rerunning some of them and comparing them with previous experience before filing the lot away in memory