Understanding our dreams
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.5 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:41.7 | Kai Wright and Carter Sherman use the entire independent reporting resources of The Guardian to slow |
| 0:47.5 | down the news and wrestle with the questions we all have about what's actually happening in the world. |
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| 1:17.1 | Most of us don't take dreams that seriously. Or maybe we just don't think about them very much because we have no idea what |
| 1:29.0 | to make of them. They feel like brain noise. Weird little stories that dissolve the moment we |
| 1:36.4 | wake up. And even when they linger, we tend to treat them as curiosities at best. But there's a long tradition that goes back to Freud that takes a very different view, |
| 1:49.7 | that dreams are surfacing something real about us. |
| 1:54.2 | There are a glimpse into our unconscious minds. |
| 1:58.8 | There's also modern dream science and sleep labs, where researchers have learned a lot |
| 2:04.4 | about what dreams are, why they happen, and what they reveal about the sleeping mind. |
| 2:10.5 | And yet, despite all that, dreams still retain this mythical status. |
| 2:16.5 | We understand them better for sure. |
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