{"id":9666,"date":"2021-12-06T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/06\/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this-why-dream-analysis-is-flourishing\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:45:00","slug":"sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this-why-dream-analysis-is-flourishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this-why-dream-analysis-is-flourishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet dreams are made of this: why dream analysis is flourishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More REM sleeping hours and fewer alarm clocks during a COVID-19-induced spike in the number of people working from home has contributed to a raft of dream interpreters and online communities dedicated to the same. While many dream analyzers try to tease out symbolism and meaning from the world of sleep, others take a more scientific approach. In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/dec\/04\/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this-why-dream-analysis-is-flourishing\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>, Erin Wamsley, a cognitive neuroscientist and associate professor of psychology at Furman University, said, \u201cDream imagery is a relatively transparent amalgam of our daily thoughts, feelings and experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More REM sleeping hours and fewer alarm clocks during a COVID-19-induced spike in the number of people working from home has contributed to a raft of dream interpreters and online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,79,48],"tags":[1203,807,1204,513,1205],"class_list":["post-9666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-neuroscience","category-psychology","tag-dream-interpretation","tag-dreams","tag-meaning-of-dreams","tag-neuroscience","tag-symbolism-in-dreams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}