Ever use the phrase "sleep like a baby"? Well, it turns
out that infants may not be the deep, sound sleepers you
always figured. According to researchers, babies in the
first year of life spend about one-half their total slumber
time in a very active dream state. The younger the baby, it
seems, the more dreaming it does. In fact, recent research
shows that at 25 weeks, human fetuses floating in the womb
spend nearly all their time dreaming. Experts suspect that
all that dreaming is needed to stimulate and develop that
brand-new brain.
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