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🗓️ 21 August 2024
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Have you ever had a dream that felt so real you thought it actually happened? Our brain can cook up some really vivid images while we sleep, complete with sounds and even emotions. So how do we tell the difference between dreams and real life? We asked dream researcher Tore Nielsen to help us find the answer.
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0:00.0 | From the Brains behind Brains on, this is the Moment of Of. |
0:04.0 | Moment of U. |
0:07.0 | Moment of Umm comes to you from APM Studios. |
0:12.8 | I'm Pete the slumberjack. |
0:14.8 | Welcome to Dreamland. |
0:16.1 | Um... |
0:20.1 | As a slumber jack, it's my job to watch over the forests here in Dreamland and take care of all the parts of your dreams that grow here. |
0:27.0 | That's right. I'm in charge of growing your dreams. |
0:30.0 | And I love it. It's literally my dream job. |
0:33.0 | Every day I patrol around each of the different dream areas, |
0:37.0 | pruning, weeding, watering, and making sure all the dreams are growing okay. |
0:41.0 | I've just been adding a little fertilizer to the magical quests and |
0:44.7 | enchanted creature dreams. Oh look there's a petting a unicorn dream sprouting. |
0:50.6 | Adorable. Over in this section we've got the movement dream, so you know |
0:56.4 | flying skateboarding boogying down on the dance floor. And over there is where |
1:01.5 | we've got the embarrassing moment dreams. |
1:04.0 | The I forgot to put pants on before school crop is really coming along. |
1:09.9 | Every once in a while we'll get some really special dreams popping up here and there. |
1:13.6 | I call them feel reels. They're the dreams that make you think, |
1:17.0 | wait, is this real life? You know the ones where you wake up and think, |
1:21.5 | did that really happen? I don't know why some dreams seem |
1:24.8 | extra real though, and Lola was asking about this too, so he asked a dream expert to help us out. So. In dreams very often you're not sure if it's real or a dream. My name is Tori Nielsen and I am the director of the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory affiliated with the University of Montreal. |
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