Why Do We Dream?

What are dreams? Why do we dream? Do they mean anything? Teagan and Bekah talk dreams (and LaCroix and English Miners and Tuna Chips and a lot of other chaos) in this episode! Also, in this episode we use the terms “Deaf” and “blind” as opposed to “hard of hearing” or “vision impaired”, here is why! It is important to remember no group is a monolith and different people desire different things, but the consensus we have reached with friends and family is the verbiage heard in this episode: https://www.nad.org/resources/american-sign-language/community-and-culture-frequently-asked-questions/ https://nfb.org//sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm09/bm0901/bm090107.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The boredom video Teagan mentioned https://youtu.be/WEQTrW9NP68 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources: https://www.apa.org/research/action/speaking-of-psychology/science-of-dreaming Uttal, William R. (2013). Reliability in Cognitive Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. p. 4. Solms, Mark (2000). "Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 23: 848. Viskontas, Indre (2017). Brain Myths Exploded: Lessons from Neuroscience. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company. p. 393. Michael Gazzaniga, The split brain revisited. Scientific American 297 (1998), pp. 51–55. 37 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988750/ https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/03/31/dreams-arent-just-visual-we-often-hear-voices-and-other-sounds-too/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-behind-dreaming/ https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/can-sleeping-brain-create-unique-people-waking-brain-has-never-seen http://www.markblechner.com/dream_frontier/excerpts.php https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/can-sleeping-brain-create-unique-people-waking-brain-has-never-seen https://signlanguageco.com/dreams-of-the-deaf/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684558/