Can You Solve Problems During Dreams?

Psychologist and dream expert Deirdre Leigh Barrett discusses the evidence that certain types of problems can be solved during dreams.
This is an excerpt from "Dreaming: A Gateway to the Unconscious?" featuring Steve Paulson, Rubin Naiman, Deirdre Leigh Barrett and Kelly Bulkeley. For the video of the complete discussion, see: • Dreaming: A Gateway to...
The New York Academy of Sciences
December 7, 2016

[@Not_A_Tourist]

When I was a teenager I had an issue with my car. It was my first car and I knew nothing about cars, but I had a dream about it and in the dream I fixed the car. The next day I went out and just like in the dream opened the hood looked at the part that I saw in the dream, and by talking to a parts guy at the store figured out that that truly was the issue. There are more details than that but I didn't want to make this too long.

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When I was in school sometimes I get stuck in difficult math problems. When I finally give up and go to sleep I saw how to solve it. I immediately get up and do the problem as how it showed in the dreams