Why do we dream?

Tonight when you fall asleep something strange is going to happen. Your brain will create an entire world. Characters, stories, emotions, places you have never been and people you have never met. And then you will wake up and within ten minutes most of it will be gone. This happens every single night of your life. You will spend six full years of your life dreaming. And despite thousands of years of study, nobody fully knows why. This video covers everything science currently knows about dreams. What actually happens in your brain during REM sleep. The history of how ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Chinese understood dreaming. What Sigmund Freud got right and wrong. The four best modern scientific theories for why we dream. And the strangest facts about dreams that most people have never heard. If you enjoyed this video, like and subscribe for more big ideas and human mysteries explained simply every week. --- 🔍 CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 1:06 - Part 1: What Actually Happens When You Sleep 3:03 - Part 2: The History of Dreams 4:47 - Part 3: Sigmund Freud and the Unconscious 6:45 - Part 4: What Modern Science Says 9:51 - Part 5: The Strange Facts About Dreams 11:52 - Part 6: Why We Still Do Not Know 13:00 - Ending --- #WhyDoWeDream #Dreams #SleepScience #REMSleep #LucidDreaming #HumanMind #BrainScience #ScienceExplained #WhyLore #Psychology #Neuroscience #SleepExplained #DreamScience #HumanBrain #MindBlowing #ScienceFacts #HistoryOfDreams #Freud #UnsolvedMysteries #BigIdeas