What Are Dreams Made Of? | The Rundown

Описание: When Karen van Kampen was a child, she hung out at her father’s lab — one of the first independent sleep labs in North America. Now, the health and science journalist has turned her lifelong interest in sleep, dreams, and everything in between into a new book called “The Brain Never Sleeps: Why We Dream and What It Means for Our Health.” We ask her what science has to say about the stuff that dreams are made of.

00:00 Intro
00:08 What Happens in the Brain When We Dream
00:18 Emotional Centers vs. Rational Thinking During REM Sleep
00:51 REM vs. Non‑REM: When Do We Dream?
01:23 Why REM Sleep Produces the Most Vivid Dreams
01:48 What Drew Karen to the Science of Sleep and Dreams
02:22 Are We Dream‑Deprived?
02:42 Why Do We Dream?
02:57 Dreams and Memory Consolidation
03:30 The “Next‑Up” Model: Why Old Memories Appear in Dreams
04:06 Dreams as Overnight Emotional Therapy
05:16 How Dreams Help Solve Problems
05:36 Dream Engineering and Guiding Your Dreams
06:14 A Personal Dream Experiment
07:17 What Are Lucid Dreams?
08:01 Controlling Dreams and Creative Potential
08:36 The Ethics and Risks of Dream Advertising
09:28 The Power of Dreams in Our Lives
10:02 Dream Research That Changed How We Understand the Brain
10:22 Anesthesia Dreams and Rewriting Traumatic Memories
11:15 How to Better Remember and Work With Your Dreams
11:54 Sharing Dreams and Seeing Them Differently
12:30 Final Thoughts on the Potential of Dreaming

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