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Why Do We Dream?

Vsauce | September 14, 2025



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Smarter Every Day: http://www.youtube.com/destinws2

How to Lucid Dream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llw717IARpQ

Whatswhat reviews my beard and other stuff: http://ow.ly/700ES

ALL music by Jake Chudnow: http://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow

**SLEEP STUFF**

Good general sleep info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep

Sleep facts: http://www.abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm

REM sleep: http://www.why-we-dream.com/remstate.htm

Old video about REM sleep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzoU0_sgip4

Lucid Dreaming on the Discovery Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASf55cov5F8

Quick info in different dream theories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream#The_Neurobiology_of_dreaming

Incredible documentary on a fatal disease that keeps you from sleeping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIeTVVAEFn8

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  13. @Plankton123-yay

    September 14, 2025 at 4:15 am

    I can’t remember the last time i wasnt lucid dreaming. I have learned to wake myself up inside my dream when i dont like the dream. Im pretty much in control of nintey nine precent of my dreams. 2:07

  16. @distorres4521

    September 14, 2025 at 4:15 am

    I have had lucid dreaming experiences a lot when I was younger. It was so weird that inside my dream I knew I was dreaming and I also knew where I was in real life, if my girlfriend was next to me or if she wasn’t etc. it’s such a freaky feeling. If I had a nightmare I would scream out to my girlfriend “wake me up wake me up”, because I knew that it was a dream but I couldn’t get out. Inception kinda stuff

  21. @Ginger_Ninja-k8w

    September 14, 2025 at 4:15 am

    I've been able to lucid dream since I was a kid. After some time I got so good at it that I could control day dreams, dreams and even nightmares.

    You know that dream people get sometimes where you feel like you are falling? Then just before you hit the ground you wake up? That is an involuntary reflex our brain sometimes creates.

    I found a way to have that dream on purpose and force myself to be able to hit the ground and not wake up. I could (and still can) do anything i want during any type of dream is crazy.

    The annoying thing is its every hard ti find research relating to lucid dreams that is this advanced. I just live with the feeling that ive just got a natural nack for it and leave it there.

  23. @lunapam2447

    September 14, 2025 at 4:15 am

    Dreams are amazing man. I really think it is the time where we experience our subconscious, the most powerful part of the brain. I draw, and sometimes I get the most creative ideas from my dreams, when I wake up I draw them immediately before I forget haha. I even thought of a verse of a poem when I was dreaming then I wrote it down immediately. Another, When I was in elementary there was this math problem homework that I couldn't solve, so I slept, In my dream I was solving it, then when I woke up I applied the solution from my dream and it really worked😂. I am not making things up.

    My theory is that I think when we dream our brain is in its most powerful state, where innovative ideas are created from the merging of information of the subconscious and the conscious mind. Our subconscious mind becomes most active during dreaming and this is where the most creative of ideas come from.

  33. @MattH-wg7ou

    September 14, 2025 at 4:15 am

    Sleep paralysis is no joke dude. I was absolutely exhausted and stressed the first time it happened to me and I legitimately thought I was having a stroke or something. Thankfully I didnt have the hallucinations common with sleep paralysis! Apparently that is even more terrifying!

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