ALKHALEEJ TODAY
Some dreams are so vivid that they can be remembered as if they were movies, full of connections and with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Others, on the other hand, resemble WhatsApp GIFs or at best a script for a video clip à la TikTok, often with powerful or meaningful images but without this complex story-like structure.
These analogies regarding different types of dream reports or dream narratives were provided by Natalia Mota, a neuroscientist affiliated with the Brain Institute (IC-UFRN) at the Rio Grande do Norte Federal University in Brazil. Mota is one of the authors of an in Plus one in a study that confirms that reports of dreams collected after sleep with rapid eye movements (REM) tend to be more complex and connected than non-REM dreams.