Dreams with Trace Dominguez!

Is a dream really a wish your heart makes? Or is it just that your brain is an organ that never really turns off? What do your dreams even mean??? These are just some of the perplexing questions this episode posed to us and our special return guest, Trace Dominguez! SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen [Definition] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2814941/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-control-dreams/ [The Scientific Definition] Dreambooks https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/67/vandegrift.php#:~:text=Popular%20in%20Europe%20since%20antiquity,game%20then%20sweeping%20Northeastern%20cities. https://web.archive.org/web/20151222092158/http://www.eastm.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/146/134 https://www.obafemio.com/uploads/5/1/4/2/5142021/dream_interpretation_in_ancient_china.pdf Incubation https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s&chunk.id=d0e2624&toc.id=&brand=ucpress#:~:text=Common%20throughout%20all%20antiquity%2C%20the,some%20divinely%20inspired%20dream%20vision. https://www.britannica.com/topic/dream-sleep-experience/Dreams-as-a-source-of-divination#ref984709 https://www.dreamscience.ca/en/documents/New%20content/incubation/Incubation%20overview%20for%20website%20updated.pdf Ominous-Vapor Watcher https://www.obafemio.com/uploads/5/1/4/2/5142021/dream_interpretation_in_ancient_china.pdf https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zhouli [Trivia Question] Rapid eye movement (REM) saccade speed https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780080450469010895 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1985.tb01551.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1983.tb03008.x https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9406327/ [Fact Off] Approximating dreams with generative AI https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/heres-how-ai-could-soon-decode-your-dreams Lucid dreaming and the effects of video games on dreams https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2017/1/nix009/3859602 https://theconversation.com/im-a-lucid-dream-researcher-heres-how-to-train-your-brain-to-do-it-118901 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-00817-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F1053-0797.16.2.96 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-00817-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2008-19013-002 https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/21/5330636/video-games-effect-on-dreams [Ask the Science Couch] Neuroscience of fever dreams https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3830719/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/28492 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6997236/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033318268718077?via%3Dihub https://www.accjournal.org/journal/view.php?number=1528 Patreon bonus: Recurring dream content and possible psychology https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-23497-001 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio-Zadra/publication/232509978_Recurrent_dreams_Their_relation_to_life_events/links/53d673f10cf220632f3da1f7/Recurrent-dreams-Their-relation-to-life-events.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810005000772?casa_token=Dofy4I_w2PsAAAAA:DdZ6qAtKJiS6OEE3Iu8pETHldBs5n1SH3lvSQl6WuCNVv9Xi8v09wuR9bWki5YROcyKWXAZ3CcN3 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01812/full https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1335 [Butt One More Thing] Psychoanalyst Hans Thorner documenting a patient who dreamed of butt spiders https://bgsp.edu/app/uploads/2014/12/Blechner-M-Patients-dreams-and-the-countertransference.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429477546-12/three-defences-inner-persecution-hans-thorner