What happens to dreams we don’t remember?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Dreams can be fun, scary or just plain weird. We typically dream for around two hours a night, but we usually don’t remember what we dreamt about. So what happens? We asked dream researcher Tore Nielsen to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s haunting your dreams at night? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we won’t rest until we find an answer! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is Moment of Um.
0:02.8	Moment of Om comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Sandin Totten.
0:18.2	Hey friends. Has this ever happened to you?
0:21.6	You wake up from a great night's sleep.
0:23.9	You sit up, stretch, and then you remember a flash of a dream you just had.
0:29.9	Some magical land, maybe, the perfect setting for your next novel.
0:34.3	Or perhaps it was a recipe for a new kind of boba tea that tastes great and also
0:40.0	cures ingrown hairs. Or maybe you saw a long lost loved one and they whispered to you the one
0:47.1	thing you always wanted to hear. All the buried treasure is hidden under the and then it disappears.
0:54.8	It was a dream and you just forgot it.
0:57.3	Well, fret no more.
0:59.7	With this one weird hack, you'll never forget a dream again.
1:03.5	Just use my patented and very expensive brain plugs with a Z.
1:09.6	Put these cheaply made rubber brain plugs with a Z in your ears,
1:14.6	and your dreams will stay in your head when you sit up in the morning.
1:18.0	I wore them last night, and that's why I remember...
1:21.3	Wait, I don't remember...
1:24.4	Hmm, I guess our dreams don't fall out of our ears in the morning.
1:29.2	Wait, so then what happens to the dreams we forget?
1:32.0	Where do they go?
1:33.4	C.C. had a question about this, too.
1:37.2	The first thing to know is that dreams are probably not even meant to be recalled that well.
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