Rachel Carlson

I didn't know IBU existed, by the way.

I didn't either.

I had no idea.

Because I don't love hops, you know?

Yes.

So a recent study in the journal Communications Psychology has some new insights for all of us dreamers on how personality and behavior traits may predict the types of dreams we have.

Because some people's dreams are more vivid and others are more fragmented.

Yeah, so for two weeks, over 200 participants recorded voice memos of everything that was going through their mind just before they woke up.

They also recorded their thoughts during the day, and they filled out questionnaires to assess different aspects of their personality.

They also wore devices to track their sleep and waking patterns in bed.

Yeah, there were some stable patterns.

So participants more prone to mind wandering tended to report more bizarre dreams, particularly dreams that rapidly change scenarios.

So like you're in a hospital, you're on a desert, you're on a beach, what's happening?

Whereas people who assigned more value and meaning to their dreams tended to have richer ones, more vivid and perceptual dreams.

Valentina also is the first to acknowledge that because the study depends on the reports of the participants, it has its limitations.

They're not studying dreams, right?

They're studying reports about dreams.

Yeah, because some scorpions mostly hunt with their stingers, whereas others rely more on their claws.

For example, the Trinidad thick-tailed scorpion tends to favor its stinger.

Exactly, yes.