Article: Sweet dreams?; The average person will spend 50,000 hours of their lifetime dreaming. But what does it all mean? asks ALISON HANDLEY.

Byline: ALISON HANDLEY

TO sleep, perchance to dream, mused Hamlet - and he wasn't the only one for whom the land of nod is full of surprises.

But while many of us muddle our way through plots with more twists and turns than the average murder mystery, others are convinced that they rarely, if ever, dream.

Not so, says Professor Jim Horne, director of a Midland sleep research centre.

Although we may not always be able to remember our dreams, that doesn't mean we haven't spent much of the night starring in our very own in-sleep movie.

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