Science: Eye movements in REM sleep mimic the gaze in dreams

Multiple brain regions coordinate to create a completely imagined world

According to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, when our eyes move during REM sleep, we are gazing at things

REM sleep — named after the associated REM sleep — has been considered the sleep phase

"We showed that these eye movements are not random

"This work gives us a glimpse into the cognitive processes that are taking place in the sleep brain while solving a puzzle that has intrigued scientists for decades," he says

Connect eye movements with dream orientation

In the second half of the 20th century, some experts hypothesized that these rapid eye movements might have occurred with scenes in the dream, but there were few ways to verify this, and the experiments that could be done (paying attention to the direction of the dreamer's eyes and then waking them up and asking them where they were looking in the dream) provided contradictory results

With more advanced technology, Scanziani and Dr.

The team simultaneously recorded data in these cells about the mouse's forward direction while monitoring its eye movements

A false world of perfect harmony

Scanziani was interested in "generative brains," which refers to the ability to

"As human beings, one of our strengths is our ability to combine

However, studying this type of brain function is difficult; It requires observing the brain's process

Scancchiani points out that in a dream, you can combine

Scanziani's team found that the same parts of the brain — many of which are coordinated during dreaming and waking, confirm that dreams are a way

How these brain regions work together to produce this reproductive capacity is a mystery

"It's important to understand how the brain renews itself based on accumulated experience," he said