CLASSIC: Have dreams really predicted the future? Chapter I
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dreams are one of the most mysterious aspects of human existence, and we still don't fully understand the strange phenomenon known as dreaming. For thousands of years, human beings have taken action in the waking world based on information they encounter in a dream -- and, every so often, people have felt their dreams aren't just reminding them of the past or re-contextualizing the present. Instead, in virtually every culture and in every era of recorded history, people have claimed their dreams also, sometimes, tell them about the future. Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they delve into the science of dreams, and the conspiracies our own brains may hatch against us.
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| 0:00.0 | Fellow conspiracy realists, thank you for joining us here on December 31st, the end of the Western calendar year. |
| 0:09.4 | Now, a lot of people will look back on a year and especially around this time, we'll start thinking about the future. |
| 0:18.2 | This made us think of a series we did beginning in August of 2020 about |
| 0:25.8 | precognition, about the idea of having a dream that violates linear time. |
| 0:34.1 | Ooh. Right. Be it a dream or taking it a step further, a premonition. |
| 0:39.0 | I think it's also appropriate in these holiday times thinking about like Charles Dickens, a Christmas carol, and Ebenezer Scrooge flying through the various versions of what his life might hold were he to go down certain paths. |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, we got a fresh sign of 12 months on the way. |
| 0:55.8 | What will they hold, you guys? |
| 0:58.7 | More Epstein files? |
| 1:00.6 | Sorry. |
| 1:02.3 | And we dive into the science of dreams, right? |
| 1:07.0 | I think we were all surprised to learn that modern human science doesn't fully understand what happens when you pass out, you know, for your three to 12 hours every 24 hours. |
| 1:21.6 | Thank you, Apollo. |
| 1:22.9 | Let's keep it in. |
| 1:25.7 | This is our classic episode. |
| 1:28.9 | Join us after this in, |
| 1:31.9 | oh, January 1st, 2026 |
| 1:35.2 | for Have Dreams Really Predicted the Future? |
| 1:38.6 | Chapter 2. |
| 1:39.8 | For now, let's roll the tape. |
| 1:42.5 | This is an I-art podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 1:47.5 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
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