{"id":7713,"date":"2018-09-27T14:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/28\/dreams\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:50:06","slug":"dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"About those really weird dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/better\/pop-culture\/your-weird-dreams-actually-make-lot-sense-according-neuroscience-psychology-ncna913436\">NBC News Better<\/a><\/strong> states that \u201cour dreams are the Wild West of our minds where rules and order don\u2019t exist. Or do they? The scientists who study dreaming say it isn\u2019t really as strange a phenomenon as it might otherwise seem\u2014and even the really weird dreams probably don\u2019t come out of the blue.\u201d The story cites the research being done on dreaming, including that of Furman psychology professor Erin Wamsley. Wamsley, who came to Furman in 2014 from Harvard Medical School\u2019s Center for Sleep and Cognition, explores the function of sleep and dreaming in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.furmansleeplab.com\/\">Furman Sleep Lab<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in NBC News Better states that \u201cour dreams are the Wild West of our minds where rules and order don\u2019t exist. Or do they? The scientists who study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,48,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-psychology","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713","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=7713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}