Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

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HealthyGamerGG · What Your Dreams Are Actually Trying To Tell You · 6 Oct 2025 podcast

So if you sort of think about it, dreams are always constrained to the experience of the human being.

You don't dream in languages you don't know.

You don't see things in dreams that you've never seen before.

Everything within your dream has to be

Anchored in some way to your experience in life.

Now, that doesn't mean that there's clearly a meaning to it.

It could all be random, right?

Because like it would just be like random images that don't mean anything.

But I do think it's an important scientific point to sort of notice that it is anchored in some way with like things that you've encountered in real life.

And then the third thing is like the significance of dreams.

And we actually have good evidence that what happens in your dream is tied to in a very tight way what happens to you in real life.

And the best evidence of this comes from nightmares and PTSD.

So when a human being has a traumatic emotional experience, a traumatic experience, let's say,

One of the diagnostic criteria of PTSD, when you get traumatized and then like that affects you in a way that debilitates you and you have a clinical diagnosis that interferes with your life, one of the key clinical features of PTSD is actually nightmares.

So if you have a trauma and you have persistent nightmares, those two things are related.

And we also know they're related because as you treat PTSD and the symptoms of PTSD go down,

their nightmares actually start to go down as well.

And when the nightmares disappear, then the people are feeling well.

So we actually have a really concrete piece of evidence that what happens to you in life, especially emotionally, it manifests in some way in your dreams.

Now, just because there is an evolutionary reason why we dream, that doesn't necessarily mean that the symbols or archetypes that people describe in dreams are actually correct.

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