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“dreaming as we experience it is the accidental by-product of two separate evolution- ary developments: the emergence of REM sleep and the develop- ment of consciousness in humans, which created the urge to make narratives out of any available data the brain receives. Whenever the story-spinning portions of the brain were activated, as they regularly were in REM, they couldn't help but churn out a dream.”