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Unexplainable

Why do we dream?

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Dreams are weird, but can they be a scientific tool? Can they teach us anything about humanity? About ourselves? For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's not expletable. I know I'm hasn't felt it. I'm nor flassen has what yeah it

0:12.0

It sounds like

0:14.8

But it totally isn't

0:17.4

It can't just be

0:21.2

Yeah, but it's got to be a little bit. I don't know how my brain

0:26.4

Oh

0:29.4

If you like it

0:47.3

For pretty much all of human history people have been trying to interpret dreams

0:52.1

They've been seen as sources of religious inspiration or prophecy or personal insight

0:57.6

But scientists still have a ton of unanswered questions here

1:01.2

They're still wondering whether dreams are telling us something meaningful about ourselves or whether they're just this random

1:08.1

Jumble

1:09.1

We've had so many listeners right in asking us about dreams and what to make of them

1:13.9

So last year science editor Brian Resnick set out to find an answer and we wanted to share that episode with you again this week

1:21.8

Brian had a pretty basic question

1:24.1

Our dreams telling us anything important and should we listen to them?

1:28.9

So to start off I talked to Bill Domhoff

1:32.1

He's this retired psych professor from UC Santa Cruz and oh

1:36.4

He's just such a professor through and through are you still there?

1:40.3

I'm getting a beep beep just starting our call. He was just kind of anxious wanting to know like what level of detail to get into

1:47.5

Was a professor I profess and I get too

1:50.4

Diedactic I will I will aim for the average person

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