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Cognitive Biases and Heuristics often cloud our judgement especially while making decisions under uncertainty such as the current pandemic. Here’s a handy list to give you power over your mind for the next time you lose the will power and self-control to make the decision to stay at home. It is useful to remember that emotions and intuition do not make for good decision making during periods of uncertainty.
Despite extensive research over the last 50 years, the functional purposes of sleep stages and dreams remain poorly understood. Typically, dreams denote an intense, bizarre sensory experience characterized by inconsistent dream plots and more importantly, a complete lack of insight into the fact that one is dreaming. In rare cases, however, the dreamer becomes aware of the dream state and may even gain some extent of control over the dream environment. This remarkable phenomenon, lucid dreaming, has long held the fascination of scientific and non-scientific communities alike.
