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• The Lima Public Library has reopened. Main library hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Branch hours are noon to 6 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays, except Lafayette is closed Wednesdays.
• The main library has curbside pick up. Hours are 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Call 567-712-5239, contact the library through Facebook Messenger or put a hold on a book through the online catalog. Give workers 24 hours to gather. Park near the main entrance. Call when you arrive, and your items will be brought out.
Cutting-edge sleep science suggests we dream for at least six-and-a-half hours every night.
But experts remain divided on precisely why we dream.
Some think dreams are merely the result of random and meaningless firings of neurons, as the sleeping brain clears out debris from the day before and forms new memories.
Others, including those at the forefront of neuroscience, are convinced that dreams are the brain s ingenious way of joining the dots and suggesting solutions to problems while we sleep. By dramatising our deepest anxieties and desires, they can show us what we really want and need in life.
Modern sleep research has even begun to reconsider the notion of precognitive dreams those that apparently show us an event before it s happened. Professor Robert Stickgold, of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School in the U.S., co-author of a new book, When Brains Dream, says our sleeping brains are so good at mulling over waking concerns and we all dre