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Dreams: Your Brain's Nightly Surgery and Hidden Problem-Solver
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This Is Why You DreamThe Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We DreamThe Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives28 sources
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Discover how your dreams aren't random noise but sophisticated neural maintenance-rewiring emotions and consolidating memories. Drawing from Matthew Walker's research, Rosalind Cartwright's pioneering work, and breakthrough studies on lucid dreaming, learn how your sleeping brain might solve problems your waking mind cannot.

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