{"id":137924,"date":"2019-08-05T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=137924"},"modified":"2019-08-12T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T09:57:48","slug":"the-science-of-sleep-dreaming-depression-and-how-rem-sleep-regulates-negative-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/the-science-of-sleep-dreaming-depression-and-how-rem-sleep-regulates-negative-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Sleep: Dreaming, Depression, and How REM Sleep Regulates Negative Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/24hrmind_cartwright.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-137925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/24hrmind_cartwright-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/24hrmind_cartwright-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/24hrmind_cartwright.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u201cMemory is never a precise duplicate of the original\u2026 it is a continuing act of creation. Dream images are the product of that creation.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the past half-century, sleep researcher Rosalind D. Cartwright has produced some of the most compelling and influential work in the field, enlisting modern science in revising and expanding <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/02\/09\/freud-the-interpretation-of-dreams\/\" >the theories of Freud<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2012\/03\/13\/memories-dreams-reflections\/\" >those of Jung<\/a> about the role of sleep and dreams in our lives. In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0195386833\/?tag=braipick-20\" ><strong><em>The Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/twenty-four-hour-mind-the-role-of-sleep-and-dreaming-in-our-emotional-lives\/oclc\/464581545&amp;referer=brief_results\" ><em>public library<\/em><\/a>), Cartwright offers an absorbing history of sleep research, at once revealing how far we\u2019ve come in understanding this vital third of our lives and how much still remains outside our grasp.<\/p>\n<p>One particularly fascinating aspect of her research deals with dreaming as a mechanism for regulating negative emotion and the relationship between REM sleep and depression:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2012\/08\/13\/the-twenty-four-hour-mind-rosalind-cartwright\/?mc_cid=12a57d08ce&amp;mc_eid=52f96bd8dd\" >TO READ THE ARTICLE Go to Original \u2013 brainpickings.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>_______________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/maria-popova.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-106597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/maria-popova.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Brain Pickings<\/em><em> is the brain child of Maria Popova, an interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large obsessed with combinatorial creativity who also writes for <\/em><em>Wired<\/em><em> UK and <\/em><em>The Atlantic<\/em><em>, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She has gotten occasional help from a handful of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/about\/authors\/\" >guest contributors<\/a>. Email: <a href=\"brainpicker@brainpickings.org\">brainpicker@brainpickings.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cMemory is never a precise duplicate of the original\u2026 it is a continuing act of creation. Dream images are the product of that creation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":106597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,145,63],"tags":[1177],"class_list":["post-137924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-science","category-inspirational","tag-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}