Meryl Horne

I'm Meryl Horne, and in this segment sponsored by Audi, we'll give you a fun and delightful science fact that's sure to impress your friends and get the conversation going at your next party.

And to talk about this, I'm here with producer Aketi Foster-Keys.

Hey, Aketi.

Hey, Meryl.

So do you struggle with small talk at parties?

Right.

Yeah, it can be hard, but I have a fun science fact for you to help you out.

And it's about nightmares.

Do you struggle with nightmares?

I do.

That sounds terrifying.

I'm sorry.

But, you know, nightmares are super common, but we are not helpless.

Science has a way to help us to stop having these scary dreams.

Oh?

Yeah, there's this technique.

Here is how it works.

So first, you take your scary dream, but you kind of reimagine it so that instead of the tiger just, like, you know, catching you and mauling you or whatever, you kind of give it a happy ending.

So maybe...

You're thinking of the dream, the tiger's chasing you, and then you have like a magic wand and you turn around and go like presto and change the tiger into a little kitten.