Carl Sagan Quotes

What Functions Do Dreams Serve Today? One View, Published In A Reputable Scientific Paper, Holds That The Function Of Dreams Is To Wake Us Up A Little, Every Now And Then, To See If Anyone Is About To Eat Us. But Dreams Occupy Such A Relatively Small Part Of Normal Sleep That This Explanation Does Not Seem Very Compelling. Moreover, As We Have Seen, The Evidence Points Just The Other Way: Today It Is The Mammalian Predators, Not The Mammalian Prey, Who Characteristically Have Dream-filled Sleep.

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