What Can You Learn from Your Dreams?

Dreaming is very weird, but you might be able to learn something from your dreams.

Hosted by: Brit Garner
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[DirtMankee]

Anyone else sometimes wakes up during sleep and then stays awake a lil bit and then sleeps again but still continues to dream the same dream? It has happend to me a couple of times.

[katherinewolf]

I just want to compliment Brit on her excellent hosting. Love her conversational style....it's like she's telling a story instead of just reading her script. Lovely soothing voice too. Thank you!

[BlielPol]

An episode on lucid dreaming would be awesome

[PsychoVdudex]

Anyone have dreams where for the dream, you think you're someone else? Not anyone in particular, just not yourself.

[sage]

"I'm just going to go comatose for a few hours and vividly hallucinate, then have amnesia about it.
It's weird how casually we talk about sleep" -xkcd
(Not an exact quote!)

[briannaschultz]

In elementary school, we were taught how to crochet. I couldnt rap my head around it during the class, but one of the nights after we started learning, i had a dream that I was crocheting. When i got back to school the next day, i was able to crochet without any issues. Super cool phenomena that your brain can basically unconsciously master tasks.

[simbadas]

threat simulation seems like a legit theory, tho it begs the question, why are the threats sometimes so unrealistic? like when i was dreaming of a car chasing me and that car could climb 1 meter tall obstacles.

[Whoaman]

My cat that I loved everyday for 15 years passed a few months ago. Ever since then, it seems like I never have a dream where she's not there with me. I find it pretty comforting. Like she found her way into my dreams from the afterlife to keep me company :)
Sometimes I even have these pseudo-lucid dreams where she's with me again and I can just pet her and play with her and trade kisses with her for a few minutes before I wake up. I wish dream-time wasn't so short in the real world.

[AmyLRichie]

I can vouch for the threat preparation theory - my dreams have helped me out a lot lately. A couple of months ago I was prepping for the job interview of my life in which I had to prepare a presentation. A couple of nights beforehand I dreamed that I turned up forgetting everything and had to make it through the presentation by winging it.
When I woke up I made sure to back up everything - even on google drive - for my presentation. On the day my USB stick wouldn't work in their computer but luckily all I had to do was download it from google. It was a success.
And I got the job :)

[nandkudasai]

This should be named "Psy-show"

[MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

I once dreamed Freud was a real honest scientist. Then I woke up.




Freud was a fraud.

[TheNefari]

If deams do prepare me for real life, why am i dreaming of dragons?

[guillermojrboy]

As an IT person, dreams have helped me on a number of occasions with figuring out new ways to solve stuff.

[Sparrow]

Sooo... basically out brains make us sleep so they can play games and level up.

They must hate the internet.

[Mirandorl]

Graduated 13 years ago. STILL have the "forgot to revise for a final" dreams :)

[googoogaga]

I usually don't remember my dreams, but I like analyzing them. They help me make sense of what I'm feeling. Like personally I think about why i dreamt something and what it could mean. It's quite helpful

[DigitalFumbles]

I find that most of my dreams are mildly-lucid and progressive in some way; I'm not exactly aware that I am dreaming, but I have a certain control of the direction the dreams go and they essentially pick up from where another left of.

There was once a series of dreams I had that lasted for about 6+ months; hoping they continue someday, as I really loved 'em.

[heatherwanderer]

I once dreamed that I could take an upward and sideways slip step and enter into a new dimension, one where I could interact with all our normal dimensions, but in the new one I could hover or walk on air, the effort was the exact same as normal walking, only I was doing it 3-5 feet above the ground. That dream was pretty cool.

[peurmartis]

i once dreamt of Dr. House transplanting my liver and then drinking booze with me...





mixed signals ya'll

[ryandupuis]

Lately, I've been having weird dreams where I'm holding things when the dream ends and I wake up trying to find where it went in the bed. : )