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[Definition]
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2814941/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-control-dreams/
[The Scientific Definition]
Dreambooks
https://www.obafemio.com/uploads/5/1/4/2/5142021/dream_interpretation_in_ancient_china.pdf
Incubation
https://www.britannica.com/topic/dream-sleep-experience/Dreams-as-a-source-of-divination#ref984709
Ominous-Vapor Watcher
https://www.obafemio.com/uploads/5/1/4/2/5142021/dream_interpretation_in_ancient_china.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zhouli
[Trivia Question]
Rapid eye movement (REM) saccade speed
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780080450469010895
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1985.tb01551.x
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1983.tb03008.x
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9406327/
[Fact Off]
Approximating dreams with generative AI
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/heres-how-ai-could-soon-decode-your-dreams
Lucid dreaming and the effects of video games on dreams
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2017/1/nix009/3859602
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-00817-001
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F1053-0797.16.2.96
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-00817-001
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2008-19013-002
https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/21/5330636/video-games-effect-on-dreams
[Ask the Science Couch]
Neuroscience of fever dreams
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3830719/
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/28492
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6997236/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033318268718077?via%3Dihub
https://www.accjournal.org/journal/view.php?number=1528
Patreon bonus: Recurring dream content and possible psychology
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-23497-001
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01812/full
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1335
[Butt One More Thing]
Psychoanalyst Hans Thorner documenting a patient who dreamed of butt spiders
https://bgsp.edu/app/uploads/2014/12/Blechner-M-Patients-dreams-and-the-countertransference.pdf
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