SciShow Psych: Why Can’t I Remember My Dreams?

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Get your first audiobook and 2 Audible originals free when you try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/scishowpsych or text ‘scishowpsych’ to 500 500! Everyone has dreams, but some people are better at remembering them than others. Scientists aren't sure why we dream, but remembering them has a lot to do with the activity in your brain, and with how well you sleep. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2398758/ https://hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/OTB_Summer2014.pdf https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-processes-in-the-brain-allow-you-to-remember-dreams/ https://www.nature.com/articles/npp20146 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900627/ https://www.livescience.com/48605-narcoleptics-lucid-dream-more.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988750/ https://www.nature.com/articles/npp20146 https://molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-6606-3-15 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC534695/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3235734/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/noradrenalin https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC33638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4999448/ https://molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-6606-3-15 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812689/ http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/what/sleep-patterns-rem-nrem https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/brain-blood-flow https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK19956/ https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Understanding-Sleep#2 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-behind-dreaming/ https://www.nature.com/articles/npp20146


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