![]() When they woke up in the morning, they all recorded any dreams they could remember having that night. A third group could think about whatever they wanted. The first group of these participants were told specifically not to think about the person during their five minutes of writing, whereas a second group were told to specifically think about them. In his experiment, participants were asked to identify a person they knew and then to spend five minutes writing a stream-of-consciousness (about whatever came to mind) before going to bed that night. ![]() Interestingly, he managed to test this idea in 2004. We know that a large number of our dreams come from REM sleep, so Wegner hypothesised that we would see a lot of suppressed thoughts making a reappearance in dreams. ![]() ![]() During REM sleep parts of the brain that are needed for thought suppression – such as those involved in attention, control and working memory – are deactivated. Wegner suggested that these processes might fail during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. ![]()
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