Dr Michelle Carr

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So as a dream scientist, you know, I work in a sleep lab and we invite subjects into the lab, usually in the evening.

The subject will go into a bedroom, which we've tried to make kind of homey with a nice night table and a nice bed.

And they'll sleep.

And we are watching their brain activity and their eye movement activity.

And we have a video of them sleeping in bed.

Periodically throughout the night, we just wake them up.

We use a two-way intercom to kind of call their name.

And after they wake up, we ask them about their dream.

And then they can go back to sleep.

And we just repeat this process multiple times across the night to collect as much dream content as we can.

From studying dreams, we can see that the scaffolding of dreams is really our experience from waking life.

And there are certain features that really often reappear in dreams.

And really, they're like a simulation of our reality.

Yeah, it's kind of a problem of being a dream researcher is that we are sleep deprived and a little dream deprived during experiments.

Yeah.

So across the night, we go through four different stages of sleep.

So starting early in the night, right as you enter sleep, you go into a really light sleep called stage one sleep.

And then you descend into gradually slower, deeper stages of sleep, stage two and stage three.

And historically, these stages have been less studied related to dreaming.

And people have focused on REM sleep, which is the stage that occurs really at the end of the night and especially in the morning.

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