Rapid eye movements in sleeping mice match where they are looking in their dreams, new research finds
- Written by Yuta Senzai, Postdoctoral Scholar in Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
Do your eyes play a role in where you look in your dreams?PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesDoes rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you’re looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply the result of random jerks of our eye muscles? Since the discovery of REM sleep in the early 1950s, the significance of these rapid...