Ever wondered why you've that recurring dream about being chased or ending up back in the classroom at school? Well, a researcher has come forward to solve the mystery.
Finnish researcher Antti Revonsuo reckons it is your link to when wild animals chased our cavemen ancestors and without them we could be wiped out.
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He says: "It's pretty certain that our ancestors did dream because dreaming seems to be biologically programmed into our brain, and the brain that our ancestors had was pretty much identical to ours.
"We know that our ancestors lived in an environment which was full of all sorts of fatal dangers.
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"So, in the waking world, when we encounter similar or different kinds of threatening events then we are more prepared to survive when we have been training for them in our dreams.
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"They are a good thing. Without nightmares and bad dreams, there is a good chance humanity wouldn't be here."
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