Get more out of your dreams

Life Kit

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Business, Health & Fitness, Education, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Dreams have inspired works of art, led to breakthroughs in organic chemistry and helped people process their deepest fears and emotions. They're not just weird little movies our brains put on while we sleep. In this episode, we explain why we dream — and how to get more out of them.

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0:00.0	You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.
0:07.0	Hey everybody, it's Maryl.
0:10.0	I want to talk about something that I've always found kind of wild.
0:13.3	Every night, bedtime rolls around, right?
0:15.5	We close our eyes, and then we go on adventures in our brains.
0:20.1	Alice Robb is a journalist and the author of the book, Why We Dream.
0:24.5	It's an altered state.
0:25.5	I mean, it's like being on drugs.
0:30.1	Yeah, dreaming is trippy as hell.
0:32.9	Everything was very heightened.
0:35.2	And it felt very, very sensual.
0:37.7	Like, it was just swimming in a pool.
0:40.4	I dreamt that I was in a hot air balloon with Ronald McDonald.
0:43.8	I just walked by on my horse trotting along.
0:48.0	They like brought me backstage, and then they were like,
0:50.7	you're gonna go up on stage while Taylor Swift is singing and chanted.
0:54.5	And you're gonna be on a horse.
0:56.4	Like those dipping cups, you know, for your chicken nuggets,
0:59.0	it's that they were pooled like in ground pool.
1:01.0	They had fairly standard troll clothes of little pointy hats
1:06.9	and colorful medieval shirts and baggy medieval.
1:16.2	And people say dreams are boring.
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