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Why Do We Dream While Sleeping?

In ancient times, civilizations believed that dreams were divine messages or predictions of the future. During the third millennium BCE, rulers of Mesopotamia documented and analyzed their dreams using wax tablets. After a millennium, the Ancient Egyptians compiled a book dedicated to interpreting dreams, featuring an extensive list of common dreams and their significance. And in the years following, we have not stopped trying to figure out why we dream.