What happens to dreams we don’t remember?

Moment of Um

American Public 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.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is Moment of Uum.
0:03.0	Moment of Uum.
0:09.0	Moment of Uum comes to you from APM Studios.
0:12.0	I'm Sandin Totten.
0:13.2	Um...
0:15.2	Hey friends, has this ever happened to you?
0:21.6	You wake up from a great night's sleep. You sit up, stretch, and then you
0:27.0	remember a flash of a dream you just had. Some magical land maybe, the perfect setting for your next novel.
0:34.4	Or perhaps it was a recipe for a new kind of Boba tea
0:38.3	that tastes great and also cures ingrown hairs.
0:42.2	Or maybe you saw a long lost loved one and they whispered to you
0:46.6	the one thing you always wanted to hear. All the buried treasure is hidden under the.
0:52.2	And then it disappears.
0:55.0	It was a dream and you just forgot it.
0:57.0	Well, fret no more.
0:59.0	With this one weird hack, you'll never forget a dream again.
1:04.0	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 and your dreams will stay in your head
1:16.2	when you sit up in the morning. I wore them last night and that's why I remember.
1:20.6	Wait, I don't remember. Wait, I don't remember.
1:24.0	Oh, hmm, I guess our dreams don't fall out of our ears in the morning?
1:29.0	Wait, so then what happens to the dreams we forget?
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