Why Do We Dream?
from The Quiet Shift: Everyday Wonders for Sleep Hosted by The Quiet Shift
Wake at 3:38 in the morning from a dream so vivid you can still feel it — and know that nobody on Earth can fully tell you why it happened. Tonight: the oldest dream ever written down, pressed into clay four thousand years ago; the Egyptian dream dictionary; Plato's wild beast and Aristotle's startlingly modern answer; the night in 1953 when dreaming became a science — and the weird edges, where dreams come in black and white, an octopus dreams in camouflage, and a dreamer sends a signal out of the dream itself. Just long enough to fall asleep to. 🌙
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