{"id":3615,"date":"2015-03-18T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/22\/beyond-your-wildest-dreams\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:31:07","slug":"beyond-your-wildest-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/beyond-your-wildest-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Behind your wildest dreams?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17083\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/erin-wamsley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17083\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17083 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/erin-wamsley.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Erin Wamsley\" width=\"170\" height=\"164\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 170px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 170\/164;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Erin Wamsley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What causes us to dream?\u00a0 Furman University psychology professor Erin Wamsley will provide some answers to that question when she speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon spring lecture series Wednesday, March 25 at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.<\/p>\n<p>Her lecture, \u201cMemories in the Sleeping Brain: The New Neuroscience of Dreams,\u201d begins at noon.\u00a0 It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Wamsley\u2019s talk is the second of four High Noon lectures presented by Furman professors during the spring. All lectures are free and begin at noon on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>Emerging evidence shows that the sleeping brain is hard at work processing memories, reorganizing information, and planning for the future. Dr. Wamsley will discuss scientific studies showing that memories are literally \u201creplayed\u201d in the brain during sleep, and what we call \u201cdreaming\u201d may be a result of this activation of memories in the sleeping brain.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Wamsley joined the Furman faculty in 2014 after serving in a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>The Upcountry History Museum\/Furman is located at 540 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville\u2019s Heritage Green area.<\/p>\n<p>A complete schedule of the High Noon lectures is available on Furman\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-3107 or <a href=\"mailto:vince.moore@furman.edu\">vince.moore@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What causes us to dream? Furman psychology professor Erin Wamsley will provide some answers to that question when she speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon spring lecture series Wednesday, March 25 at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman. Her lecture, \u201cMemories in the Sleeping Brain: The New Neuroscience of Dreams,\u201d begins at noon.  It is free and open to the public. Wamsley\u2019s talk is the second of four High Noon lectures presented by Furman professors during the spring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-psychology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}