So I had a pretty weird dream last night and in fact I had a series of pretty weird dreams last night.

This morning in fact I still had a surge of emotions.

In my dream, I was running around a house that I definitely don't live in,

looking for keys to a car that I don't own,

so that I could go to an appointment that honestly I wasn't even sure what it was for in the dream.

And when I finally woke up, I felt almost out of breath.

It's amazing that dreams can have such a powerful physiological impact on us and immerse us so

thoroughly in the narrative that sometimes we question whether or not it's an actual memory.

The brain has this fantastic ability to generate pictures, characters, and scenery,

all while we seemingly are at our most inactive.

And so it's no wonder to me that people completely ignorant of this

would you know say something like this so turn in your Bibles to numbers 12 verse six it says listen to my

words when there is a prophet among you, I the Lord reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.

It makes sense to me that people would assume these dreams are really just messages from an external source.

And this is a common theme of religious claims in general.

They are oftentimes a first shot at explaining these incredible experiences that we have every day, and only

with questioning and rigorous investigation do we really start to understand what explains them.

Science is the best tool we have for this.

And if you think your religion provides better evidence

for the world around us, pick up the phone and call

because the show's starting right now. All right, all right, it is so good to be here.

Welcome everyone.

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