{"id":171008,"date":"2023-08-31T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/what-are-dreams-for"},"modified":"2023-08-31T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:27:56","slug":"what-are-dreams-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/what-are-dreams-for","title":{"rendered":"What Are Dreams For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-are-dreams-for.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amanda Gefter writes about how our body twitches during REM sleep affect our dreams, and the scientific theories about why we dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Gefter writes about how our body twitches during REM sleep affect our dreams, and the scientific theories about why we dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}