It is free for all Friday. Welcome the Council of Trent. On Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology. Friday, we talk about whatever I want. And there was a phenomenon that I came across recently that I found utterly fascinating that I would like to share with you. So do you have very vivid dreams? I mean, I have them. Dreams really fascinate me. Scientists aren't entirely

sure why we dream. They think it has something to do with the fact that our brain has to repair

itself at night when we sleep. It heals itself from everything you has to do during the day.

And when the brain is stimulated in this way, you know, the neurons are firing, the

synaptical connections are going, it produces these images for us to examine. So it really is

fascinating how it does that, because if you stay awake long enough, you will die. They've tried

to do sleep experiments where people stay up as long as they

can. Now they don't do those anymore because they're highly unethical because they're really,

really dangerous. You need to sleep or you'll die. In fact, if you just try to stay awake,

your body is just automatically going to go to sleep at some point. And so you dream. And so the

dreams we have, I, you know, there's certain dreams that I've had in life that are just so, so vivid. They just seem so real. And it's weird, like you'll go to sleep at night. And sometimes you'll feel like you spent a lot of time in a dream, we're done things in a dream. And you wake up and you're like, oh, it was just a hours. Although I think a part of it is it's your brain filling everything in when you wake up.

I always wonder, you know, what is the difference between what I dreamed and then when I

wake up, when I try to remember what I dreamed, how much does the brain really fill in?

So, but here's a very interesting phenomenon.

Some people who are in comas for a long time

for weeks or for months at a time in a comatose state, they will describe having lived in a very

prolonged dream. So we have our dreams. We remember them, however what duration they have,

but we've only sleeping for, you know, seven or eight hours.

Eight hours, I wish. I'm a bad boy who stays up way too late, putzing around, reading

things on the internet, doing a little bit of last minute work, and then up and early in the

morning. I wish I got my full eight hours in. I really should. But imagine if you were in a sleep-like

state for months at a time. So here's

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