Baby's first dreams

After about seven months growing in the womb, a human foetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting state of non-REM sleep. But whether the brains of younger, immature foetuses cycle with sleep or are simply inactive has remained a mystery, until now...

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