Discovery
The bad dreams are our allies
NEUROSCIENCE They do not serve to disrupt our nights ! The bad dreams are thought to play a role to tame our fears and prepare us for future dangers. To demonstrate this, researchers in switzerland and the u.s. have examined the activity of the brain electric 18 sleepers regularly woken up and questioned about the nature of their dreams. When it came to nightmares, there has been an increase in the activity of two brain areas : the insula and the cingulate cortex. The first is involved in the assessment of emotions in the time of awakening, and goes to work automatically if…