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Why Fevers Make Our Dreams So Strange
Original: The Science Of Fever Dreams: When We’re Sick, Our Dreams Can Get Extra Weird – What’s That All About?
When people fall sick with a fever, their dreams often turn unusually bizarre and unsettling, a phenomenon commonly called fever dreams. An IFLScience feature explores what science knows about the effect, linking elevated body temperature to disturbed sleep and more intense, distorted dream content. The piece asks why this happens and what it reveals about how illness affects the sleeping brain.
Why now: Seasonal illness is drawing fresh interest in the quirky experience of fever-induced nightmares and strange dreams.
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- The Science Of Fever Dreams: When We’re Sick, Our Dreams Can Get Extra Weird – What’s That All About? · IFLScience
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