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He held up the finished piece. I saw nothing. But I felt a room—a kitchen with a low ceiling, a kettle whistling, the shadow of a cat stretching across a sun-drenched flagstone floor. It was the kitchen of my great-aunt’s cottage, torn down in 1987.

While the eyes dart rapidly beneath closed lids, the brain enters a state of vivid dreaming. During this phase, the prefrontal cortex—the region responsible for logic and impulse control—takes a back seat, allowing for the bizarre, hyper-emotional, and often nonsensical narratives we experience as dreams. Meanwhile, the amygdala, the brain's emotional center, lights up with activity, processing the stresses, fears, and joys of the previous day. He held up the finished piece

Deep within the architecture of the night, roughly 90 minutes after we first drift off, the brain initiates a remarkable performance. This stage is known as REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep—a paradoxical state where the body is paralyzed, yet the mind is more active than ever. It was the kitchen of my great-aunt’s cottage,