Dr Michelle Carr

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Science Weekly · Revisited: The surprising science of dreams and nightmares · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

And we think that that might also be related to the fact that during REM sleep, our body is actually physically paralyzed.

And this serves a purpose, you know, it keeps us from acting out our dreams.

But the sensation of paralysis seems to sometimes become incorporated into the dream so that you feel that your dream body is unable to move and is really slowed down.

But other ones are obviously more psychological, like the dream of...

Missing an exam.

It's fascinating that people report this, you know, for years, for decades, even after they're outside of school or college or whatever.

And it seems like sometimes just the stress of having to perform is triggering this dream of failing an exam or being unprepared for an exam.

Yeah, there's been some research on dreams across the lifespan.

So far, it's primarily looked at like really general traits of dreaming.

We know that actually dream recall, dream frequency, dream vividness, it becomes less and less over the course of older age.

One thing we know is that the number of dream patterns or dream themes that people have also decreases over time.

So it's almost like their dreaming life becomes less diverse over time.

But there's still, I think, a lot more to uncover about aging and dreaming and even how dream themes change across a lifespan.

Yeah, this is a very common question that I get.

Definitely there are differences in how frequently people recall dreams.

Some of the reasons for this may be actually kind of biological.

When we wake up in the morning, we're actually changing states of consciousness, right?

Like it's quite a difference in brain activity between dreams.

Being deeply asleep and waking up.

And it's a difficult process for the brain and for the mind to recall a memory across this change in physiological state.

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