... time in REM sleep, accompanied of course by an increase in dreaming. From this it was concluded that REM sleeping indicates a high probability that a person is in fact dreaming. Nevertheless, the content of his or her dream is directly available only to the dreamer and ... would dream about great accomplishments. Other theorists such as Rosalind Cartwright in 1977 proposed that dreams provide an opportunity to work through everyday problems. This is known as her cognitive "Problem-Solving View", in which there is considerable continuity between waking and sleeping thought. Proponents of...

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