Abstract
Every dream makes new connections, and every dream is a creative product not a replay. This article summarizes evidence that even dreams usually thought of as replays—recurrent or repetitive dreams and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) dreams—turn out to be new creations, rather than replays. It will discuss the implications of this view for the functions of dreaming. The data suggest that dreaming is not involved in the consolidation of memory, but rather in integrating new memories into memory schemes, guided by emotion. This view of dreaming also has implications for making use of dreams in therapy and in
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