From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

A production of IHeartRadie. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. Our colleague Noel is on an adventure, but we'll return shortly.

They call me, Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.

Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.

Shout out to everyone who has this plane on some kind of automatic shuffle or playlist as they are slumbering.

Sleeping listeners, we welcome you to tonight's episode, which is all about dreams, dreams, dreams.

That's right. You may even be aware and awake at this point in the show, but very soon you will drift off.

Off, off, off.

What you dream will be directly influenced by what you hear.

8 minus 6.

We've had some fascinating explorations of dreams in the past.

We're talking about this and related cognitive science off air.

While back, we did a two-part episode on the

concept of precognitive or clairvoyant dreams, dreams that from the perspective of their

supporters, dreams that appear to predict the future, violating what we understand is the laws of linear time.

And what we learned in those episodes, it's weird.

I went back and listened to the mat and reread the research.

We went back and listened to those episodes and reread the research,

and we found that the basic physiological or neurological phenomenon

that we call the dream is understood in that we know it happens. We also know the other

non-human animals dream. Do check out many video clips

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