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Dare to Dream What happens in your head at night, new science reveals, is more important than you think I B Y M I C H A E L J . W E I S S Our dreams may affect our lives (and vice versa) more than we ever realized, says groundbreaking new research. For 11 years, a 58-year-old anthropologist kept a journal of nearly 5,000 dreams. By analyzing color patterns in the dreams, Arizona-based researcher Robert Hoss could accurately predict certain things about the man’s emotional state. Hoss correctly identified two separate years when the man experienced crises in his life. The anthropologist confirmed that in 1997 he had clashed with a colleague ILLUSTRATED BY ANN ELLIOTT CUTTING 93 RD I FEBRUARY 2006 over a management issue, and in 2003 a presentation at work or playing he’d had a falling out with a friend that sports, can enhance your performance. left deep emotional scars. And cognitive neuroscientists have How was Hoss able to gauge the discovered that dreams and the rapid dreamer’s turmoil? “The clues were eye movement (REM) that happens in the colors,” he says. The anthropol- while you’re dreaming are linked to ogist’s dominant dream hues were our ability to learn and remember. reds and blacks, which spiked during Dreaming is a “mood regulatory Dreams help people work through the day’s emotional quandaries. It’s like having a built-in therapist. difficult times. “Even without knowing system,” says Rosalind Cartwright, the events in his life,” Hoss observes, PhD, chairman of the psychology “we accurately determined the emo- department at Rush University Medi- tional states based on those colors in cal Center in Chicago. She’s found that his dreams.” dreams help people work through the Hoss is among a growing group of