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Harvard Medical School Professor Robert A. Stickgold, who also teaches Psychology 987f, “The Biology of Conscious States: Waking, Sleeping and Dreaming,” says these anxiety dreams are problem-solving strategies of the subconscious. “My take is that these students—or their brains—are searching for ways to solve emotionally charged problems,” he says. “If they’re in REM sleep, their brains are in a physiological and neurochemical state where they preferentially consider very unlikely solutions...
...study published in an October issue of Science, Stickgold had a group of people with normal memory function and a group of amnesiacs, who have damage to their hippocampi, play Tetris over a period of days...
According to Stickgold, the neocortex, a part of the brain that is normally associated with the high intelligence of primates, takes part in the dreams of amnesiacs...
During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the part of the sleep cycle most closely associated with dreaming, Stickgold says "there is a lot of communication between the neocortex and the hippocampus...
...terms of forming those memories of facts you are trying to cram, that happens in the hippocampus," Stickgold says. "The first recording in the hippocampus is very fast and reliable. But if you don't get sleep afterward, you may not get the memories into the neocortex...