Function of dreams

"After nearly 100 years of debate about the function of dreams, this study tells us that dreams are the brain's way of processing, integrating and really understanding new information," Robert Stickgold, director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School and senior author of the study, said in a prepared statement. - from:To sleep, perchance to dream--and learn; By Katherine Harmon