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!
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[Definition]
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2814941/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-control-dreams/
[The Scientific Definition]
Dreambooks
https://www.obafemio.com/uploads/5/1/4/2/5142021/dream_interpretation_in_ancient_china.pdf
Incubation
https://www.britannica.com/topic/dream-sleep-experience/Dreams-as-a-source-of-divination#ref984709
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://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.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