The Science, Folklore, and Mystery of Dreams

What are dreams, really? Science says your brain is filing memories and simulating threats. Psychology points to the subconscious doing its messy work. Metaphysics suggests something far stranger, that it’s a doorway to other realms, other versions of yourself you can only half-remember come morning. This week, Michelle and Beth float through the dreamscape: shared dreams that two people experience without knowing it, precognitive dreams that reach into a future you weren't supposed to know yet, and the dream locations your sleeping mind returns to that you've never visited while awake. They share their own precog dreams, including one born in the desert during wartime and one that foretold a tragedy before it happened and ask the question every vivid dreamer eventually faces: is it memory, the mind processing what it can't face in daylight, or something else entirely?