Oneirology Part 1 (DREAMS) with G. William Domhoff
Ologies with Alie Ward
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Dreams, Biology, Psychology, and Culture
The circumstances around an awakening also play a really big role in how often you can remember your dreams. I'm so confused about dreams because I could sit in front of a laptop and say, okay, write a movie. And then I fall asleep in my pants on the couch and I have this like fantastic odyssey with whatever,. Like pirates and hot air balloons. How does our imagination do that? I call it imagination roaming freely. When we're awake, you're constrained by these other networks, these networks that are oriented towards the waking world. At night, you're roaming freely and incidentally, the same thing in the morning.
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