Dr Michelle Carr

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

And what we can see is that some people, as they're waking up, they actually have more brain connectivity.

And we think that this is maybe helping them to kind of carry the memory of a dream into the state of wakefulness.

But we still think that pretty much everyone is dreaming.

It's just this process of recall that can be difficult to access.

But there are some kind of tips and techniques that you can use to increase dream recall.

So we might ask people, when you wake up in the morning, stay still, stay in bed, keep your eyes closed.

Rather than waking up with an alarm and getting out of bed, that's going to really interrupt your ability to recall dreams.

And also just when you get in bed at night, you can kind of set the intention to remember your dreams, maybe keeping a dream diary, recording whatever you can every day.

This is going to over time increase the kind of the access and the amount of dreams that someone can recall.

Yeah, dreams I think definitely can offer insight.

I've worked on a couple studies where we've shown that participating in dream discussion groups where you follow certain techniques of talking about the dream and then talking about how it's related to your waking life, it can lead to insight into your personal life, insight into maybe some emotional things you're dealing with.

And they can also lead to increased empathy, increased connection between people.

So there are definitely benefits that can be had from either just recording dreams on your own or reflecting on them with other people.

I think it really veers away from the kind of stereotypical dream interpretation we think of, like you were describing, like the dream dictionaries.

It's not like that at all.

It's more just...

discussing dream content and reflecting on how that's maybe linked to other things that you're experiencing in your life at the moment.

They're related to experiences of stress and adversity and trauma in waking life.

So people who have experienced more even early childhood adversity or more are undergoing a period of high stress or transition in their life.

these experiences are going to trigger nightmares.

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