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The scientific study of dreams is called:
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Dream study branches include psychological interpretation and neurobiological analysis of REM sleep. Term oneirology derives from Greek oneiros meaning dream. Arachnology studies spiders, pomology fruits, speleology caves. Therefore scientific study of dreams is correctly termed oneirology in medical literature.
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