Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Q: As of last week, I used to dream every night, sometimes having several dreams in the night. Last week I spent a night in a terrible hotel. The bed was lumpy and the room was noisy. I also got sick from dinner. Since then, I’ve stopped dreaming. I don’t remember any dreams when I…
There’s a type of dream where you might not even realize that you’re dreaming when you have it—the rehearsal dream. You might think of the dream as “just thinking about something.” It could be a meeting, a presentation, or a conversation you know you’ve got to have with someone. Be careful. Even if the dream…
Sometimes dreams will give you vague pictures and a rough outline that something’s going on. What exactly is going on? No idea. Something. You wake up. Minutes later, you have an idea. You come to a new understanding. Pieces snap together. Not a dream Technically, that’s not a dream. You’re in none of the stages…
People can walk, chew gum, and even talk at the same time, of course, but the brain doesn’t usually work that way when it comes to dreaming. More than anything, when you have two dreams at once, synapses in your brain are simply firing away. It’s a sign of mental or physical stress or the…
In this map from Reddit, lots of people in countries in the English-speaking world dream about their teeth falling out. In the rest, dreams about snakes are common. Pregnancy, too. For some countries, you’ve just got to wonder: what is it about a country that makes a dream subject so common? Undoubtedly, it’s having certain…
Sometimes you’ll draw a blank when you wake up and try remembering what you were dreaming about. Maybe you were woken suddenly and the memory of the dream shatters. Maybe the details were simply dim. Whatever the reason, you know you were dreaming and you’re coming blank. You might only be left with a memory…
Want a picture? Type a few guidelines in a field. An artificial intelligence (AI) can draw it for you. How about a story? Same thing. Put in a few guidelines. AI will tell you one. Many times, AI output is pretty good, useful even. Just how lazy artificial intelligence makes people remains to be seen.…
To understand whether lucid dreaming is a sin, it helps to first understand what is meant by “sin.” To “sin” means to violate the law of God. It can also refer to the state of human nature where one is estranged from God. When you sin, you’re acting in a way God doesn’t approve of.…
When I was in school there was this kid, Dave. He remembered all of his dreams, so he said. They’d be crazy. They’d have monsters in them, people with no faces, and talking ducks. Every so often he’d keep us entertained before school and at recess with his tales from the night before. Sometimes his…
The rain was falling out of the sky in dense sheets like it was being poured from some buckets. I was under the roof of a flat-roofed house of the kind I had cared for 35 years before when I was a student at the university. In real life, the building was one of several…
If you’re going to understand the hidden aspects of your life, you’re going to have to understand your dreams. If you’re going to understand your dreams, you’re going to need to remember them. This video features some basic but powerful tips on how you can remember more of your dreams. Also on the blog:…
Dreams are fun but it’s best to acknowledge it and not to get stuck on that aspect. It’s cool when you do something like holding seven men at gunpoint in your dreams. Or when you save a life. Or when you ride a horse fast. Unfortunately, the long-term dream journaler pseudonymously named “Barb Sanders” had…
Often dreams don’t match reality in any way shape or form. In the famous short story and movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, hapless main character Mitty has one daydream after another triggered by mundane events. In one, he’s a surgeon saving lives. In another, a fighter pilot. And in another…