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it's friday november 4th 2020 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Could a musical cue played while you're

asleep help prevent nightmares? Plus, a roundup of science news from this month in history.

And the U.S. government might be getting an official Space Bureau. Here's some cool

stuff for your ride home. When I was a kid, anytime a dream was about to take a sharp turn

into a nightmare, I'd start hearing this low drumbeat. Every time. Every nightmare had the soundtrack of those drums.

I don't know why, and I don't really remember when it stopped. In hindsight, I've wondered if I was somehow hearing the quickened pace of my heartbeat as fear set in within my dream. I have no clue on the real scientific explainer for that one,

but the idea of artificially imbueing your dreams with music

to prevent them from becoming nightmares

is the topic of a new study published last week in the journal Current Biology.

So while we all have nightmares on occasion,

if you experience them multiple

times a week, to the point that they're causing distress, disrupting your sleep, and therefore

negatively affecting your health and functioning during waking hours as well, as loss of

sleep does, then you may be one of the 10 million people in the United States with what is

simply called nightmare disorder.

Such people were the subject of this recent study led by neuroscientists from the University of Geneva,

because, you know, if your study is trying to prevent bad dreams, what better participants than those who have a lot of them?

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