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Today you learn about what you can do to remember more of your dreams.

You'll also learn about the difference between internet language and regular language in the first

edition of our hashtag Tuesday's mini-series with internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch.

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There are things you can do if you want to remember more of your dreams.

And obviously dreams are still mysterious to scientists and dreamers alike,

but there is research suggesting there could be some fundamental differences between people who remember their dreams and those who don't.

One is gender. Researchers don't know why but women tend to remember their dreams more often than men.

This could be due to gendered differences when it can't be true. tend to remember their dreams more often than men.

This could be due to gendered differences

when it comes to interest in dreams,

or it could be due to hormonal or biological differences.

And it's not just who you are,

but how you sleep that can impact how you remember your dreams.

When you fall asleep slowly, you enter hypnogia, which is a period of dream-like visual, auditory,

and physical hallucinations that occur just at the onset of sleep.

You dream more regularly when you enter REM sleep, which is that dream-ready phase that comes

with physiological changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing.

Near the end of REM, your body either prepares to wake up or to cycle through the sleep stages again.

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