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Understanding Dreams

Bumped onto this while browsing the 'Net http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090616/hl_time/08599190456100 Wish Fulfillment? No. But Dreams (and Sleep) Have Meaning Buzz Up Send Email IM Share Delicious Digg Facebook Fark Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print Play Video Video:Get Your Zzzs FOX News By TIFFANY SHARPLES Tiffany Sharples – Tue Jun 16, 4:15 am ET Dreams may not be the secret window into the frustrated desires of the unconscious that Sigmund Freud first posited in 1899, but growing evidence suggests that dreams - and, more so, sleep - are powerfully connected to the processing of human emotions. According to new research presented last week at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Seattle, adequate sleep may underpin our ability to understand complex emotions properly in waking life. "Sleep essentially is resetting the magnetic north of your emotional compass," says Matthew Walker, director of the Sleep and N