The development here is that they've figured out a model of the actual interaction thats happening during the transition phase between nREM and REM, which is pretty cool. We've known dreams are an artefact of memory processing for a long time, as well as that REM is basically long-term memory thunderdome. But the actual mechanisms underlaying this, in non-abstracted terms, are still hugely complex and largely not understood. This is a big step forward (if verified) towards the goal of unraveling the full memory encoding process.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for providing an actually high quality and accurate summary. I hate the way these headlines always obscure things or make them sound like they're some magic new thing that we just found out too, so it's nice to just hear it straight.