Emotional regulation or just continuity? Rethinking the emotional function of dreaming in the age of computational sleep science

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For centuries, dreaming has fascinated humans, and it still remains one of the most interesting puzzles in sleep research today.Although dreams are typically defined as mental activity occurring during sleep and recalled upon awakening, researchers cannot answer many issues about dream experience.Indeed, the question of why we dream, and of whether this unique form of mentation during sleep subserves any functional purpose, remains at the heart of contemporary scientific debate.