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Is there any merit to the advice to 'sleep on it?' New research suggests our dreams may help problem-solve

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Two recent studies, including one from University of Freiburg tracking 3,000+ participants (2020–2024) and another on 'dream engineering' from Northwestern University, demonstrate that daily activities influence dream content and that deliberately remembering and logging dreams increases vividness and may aid problem-solving.

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Causality between dream vividness and problem-solving outcomes remains unclear; the mechanism by which dreams assist cognition is not yet established.

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Is there any merit to the advice to 'sleep on it?' New research suggests our dreams may help problem-solve

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