The Science of Dreams | Sci Guys Podcast #37

[@dropinarte]

You should make a bonus episode about how disabled people dream :0 I have a blind girl in my choir and it's extremely interesting listening too her talk about how she experiences the world

[@Sara-vn2kz]

This podcast made me feel better about that dream I had when I was 18. I lived two months of a nightmare. I experienced every second of it. When I woke up again, I thought I was having a good dream and that my nightmare in which my entire family had been killed and I was being held captive... I thought the nightmare was reality. Because I had been there for TWO MONTHS. When I woke up, I spoke to my mother thinking she was dead. I held my 1 year old brother and didn't think he was real. I heard laughter but couldn't join in. I felt the sun on my face and knew that at any any moment I would wake up on the floor of a dark, dirty room again. It took a few days to believe real life was real. I'm still afraid to go to sleep sometimes. What if I get stuck somewhere for two months again?

[@DaleGribble1]

Don't eat whatever you ate before you went to sleep ever again Sometimes ill have bad dreams if I eat right before bed. Its possible some foods digest slower and drag out the length of the dream.

[@therussianbear8815]

I used to sleepwalk and I once woke up in the garden of my neighbors, my parents locked the whole house and I then escaped through the window and couldn't get back inside.

[@CappyJ]

Missed this episode when it first came out but just thought I'd say that Luke is right about the brain flushing itself clean. Cerebral spinal fluid will travel through the brain using the outside of blood vessels to clear away waste buildup.

[@remyratatouille9928]

I want to teach high school history, and I think I’m gonna structure my class like this podcast? As a conversation, addressing main topics and allowing further exploration into tangents and offering clarification

[@lobaetoile8440]

That's a great idea. :)

[@SindriMjolnir]

I once had a dream, in which I was semi-lucid, where I interacted with and befriended a bunch of people, and then explained to them that I’d never be able to see them again because they weren’t actually real and I was just dreaming. This shocked their world, because in my dream they believed they were real people living in reality, and here I come barreling in telling them that the moment I wake up they’ll seize to exist. While I don’t personally believe that the characters we create in our minds are real people with thoughts and feelings and experiences apart from our own, this dream really stuck with me. I guess it’s the whole “maybe we’re living in a simulation” idea, just one levels down. Where it’s my own brain creating the simulation and the people in it having to face the fact they aren’t real. Idk, it’s weird.

[@avedic]

Interesting.... I had a very similar dream where I was interacting with this person for a while....and eventually told them how weird it was that they weren't actually real, given how real they seemed. They also acted oddly shocked and slightly annoyed/worried...like this came as a legit shock. I often think about that dream....

[@m0061]

14:13 James had so much fun editing that back and forth lmao (very slick cuts btw)

[@erin8432]

Istg Luke’s house dream is exactly like Amy Pond’s first episode in Doctor Who!

[@yoinksscoob4889]

Was just thinking that haha

[@xstarkidx8064]

I'm autistic and I strictly lucid dream. I didnt know I did until I got older and everyone was going on about trying to do it. I never really knew not everybody can control their dreams. From what I've heard, most peoples dreams are like a movie they're watching happen to them. Where as my dreams are more like a video game I control and Influence.

[@Emil-lf3no]

"sounds and smells don't really happen in dreams" Wait does that mean I have advanced dreaming?

[@RexxyRobin]

That one puzzled me too, since my dreams are usually solely sound and touch.

[@arthur1428]

Dude, for me it’s kinda just like real life,

[@allyj3637]

I eat quite a lot in my dreams, and the taste is very real

[@EditsByLyra]

Yes to an episode on sleep paralysis ! I've only experienced it once but it was memorable enough for me to find it fascinating.

[@reginaschiwawa9857]

thought my earphones disconected when they started the staring contest

[@moatla4678]

this inspired me to start a dream journal, cheers!

[@vynneve]

The WR for the longest dream is apparently 3h 8mins! But for the average person I remember reading, from multiple sources, it's [2 seconds, 2 hours]. I've def had flashes of dreams, when falling asleep in a chair or w.e. And also full on "Movie Dreams" where my brain creates an entire plot and I literally watch it as a person in the movie and/or "being the camera". Those are so fun hahahaha

[@nataliatheweirdo]

ive never been so weirdly suprised over hearing my name get mentioned in a review xD

[@Marti_-su2mj]

OMGGG I literally had the same experience with recurring dreams where I wasn't myself too like James, it happens very often acually

[@mliljegard19771209]

I once dreamt I drank a glas of water with ice and it felt so strange.

[@alicec1533]

11:18 Reminds me of that Star Trek episode where Picard raises a family on that planet.

[@tyson5458]

talking about how dreams are seen throughout all cultures, Australian Aboriginies have the majority of their stories and culture from a period called the dreamtime which is really cool!

[@sensen4161]

I had a dream where i had a girlfriend and got trapped in a saw game thing with her and a bunch of other people. We had to do a bunch of challenges and if we ran out of time, the person who failed a challenge would turn into sweet delicacies. I grew an attachment to my fictional dream girlfriend, but them she died and turned into cake and i had to eat her.

[@lilycrawford]

Merry Christmas!!

[@emmasaurusrex7046]

Had to write about a science podcast for class, thank you for making it so easy and interesting! Much love ❤️ Thanks for the good grade 😊

[@theophora]

I don't understand the question y people would buy this dream reader hahahahaha. y wouldn't they? I would love to know my dreams in more detail, that would so so sick holy shit. I have such interesting dreams i wish I could see them as a movie tbh.they are so much more interesting than my life.

[@michaelpitman8617]

I've only had a lucid dream one time. I had a somewhat traumatic experience coming out. I had a dream that I thought was real. It was a real and precious memory for me for about a year before I realized it was a dream. One year on the dot. The timelines were the exact same. Everything was the same until one night I fell asleep thinking about it. The made up person in my dream died and I didn't believe it. I was hysterical when this made up person's house was not there as we drove past it in the dream. My bestfriend told me I was dreaming and I was able to control the dream after that. It is still so strange when I think about it. I completely wiped the real events of that day from my memory for a year. I'm currently studying to be a psychiatrist because this experience and a few others interested me so much in the human psyche.

[@minksrule2196]

Changing breathing during different modes of sleep makes sense since I can breathe in a certain way and that's how I do a sleep paralysis on purpose

[@FamousNothing]

Anybody ever meditate in your dreams? Or practice essential dream skills like flying and teleportation (or time travel)?

[@fennwoodhouse]

wait but what about the crystal tree from last episode

[@SciGuys]

we posted an update on our instagram!! @sciguyspod

[@fennwoodhouse]

wow didn’t think a crystal tree would be the thing to make me end my one year long break from instagram lmao

[@evelyneb590]

For some reassurance Corry. If you've never experienced predictive dreams before. This one probably isn't one as either. (based on anekdotes I've heard and my own logic but you'll just have to take my word for it)

[@amahlemadi2513]

I once had a dream that I had a full-on makeout session with a boy on my street that I had a crush and I thought my dream was real, me being the confused 10-year old I told my friend, and she confronted him and he denied it ever happened and I have never talked to him till today and I am now 15-years old

[@Emil-lf3no]

I had a dream in which i threw a nuke thrown from a helicopter back at the helicopter with my bare hands. I also had a dream in which I got out of bed to close the window as suddenly a hand grabs mine and like any sensible person would do I tried to kill them via closing the window rapidly on the arm, I woke up with my arm in my hand. Another dream I was at a market as everyone suddenly ran away I turned around but couldn't escape the car about to run me over, I woke up in the same position my mangled body was in, I luckily didn't die in my dream cuz I fear that I might have broken my neck irl if that was the case Edit: 39:10 I always get so sad in dreams in which I buy things because I either dream about buying things that don't exist or of buying things I have no access to due to distance or lack of money

[@vynneve]

That water flush thing occurs *primarily* during sleep. It's not like it never happens when you are awake, and it can't just "flush it away" it goes in your blood so ur liver/kidneys can do their job haha. My record for dream within dream is 5 lol. That is to say, I had 5 "fake wake ups" THEN finally woke up for real. Often happens if I become lucid during the dream, I'll fake wake up and the lucidity will go away. Your brain really seems to hate you being lucid in dreams haha. My personal "reason for sleep" is just that it's totally possible that the reason we dream...is just because we can. We have the ability to imagine and such, and there's no evolutionary reason (at least that I've heard of) for that to stop during sleep. Personally I think there's no "reason" we dream, the reason is literally just, we can. and we just do. I guess one evolutionary reason specifically too dream is the "prepare for danger" argument. But you don't even remember the dreams, so i don't see that really playing a role.

[@kimleibbrand8344]

I listened to this late at night and studding. That’s how I know everything is true lol

[@raineermstuff]

where’s episode 38?

[@the_bandcamp_one]

watching this on three hours sleep: 😐

[@jackfrostghosts]

I have seizure in my sleep 😂

[@deadlymelody27]

Were the twins called jim and bexley? Only nerds will get this reference 😂

[@DaleGribble1]

Red Dwarf

[@deadlymelody27]

@@DaleGribble1 🎉

[@DaleGribble1]

@@deadlymelody27 what is that? Ice cream cone?

[@deadlymelody27]

@Chuck Finley haha no, its like a party popper i think, basically yay!

[@DaleGribble1]

@@deadlymelody27 it took a whole year for someone to get the Red Dwarf reference? What is wrong with people?