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According to the study, 74% of Indians, 65% of South Koreans and 56% of Americans hold an old-fashioned Freudian view of dreams: that they are portals into the unconscious.
But after so many years of brain research showing that most of our everyday cognitions result from a complex but observable interaction of proteins and neurons and other mostly uncontrolled cellular activity, how can so many otherwise rational people think dreams should be taken seriously?"
-- John Cloud (great name for this story) knocking down another HUGE plank of NewAge silliness (the so-called importance of dreams) in TIME Magazine.
The article helpfully adds:
"Brain activity isn't mystical but — for the most part — highly predictable."
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