mental housecleaning hypothesis

mental housecleaning hypothesis

the hypothesis that dreams support the reorganization of material learned during the prior waking period, particularly by simplifying and reducing overlapping information. [developed by U.S. psychiatrist J. Allan Hobson (1933–  )]

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