Every Confusing Thing About Dreams Explained Slowly (For Sleep)

In an hour or two your eyes will start to flick under their lids and you'll dream, four or five times before morning. Where do you actually go? Tonight we follow that child's question for more than three thousand years, slowly, from an Egyptian dream book with its warnings in red ink to the sleep labs that now talk to people while they dream. We visit the healing halls of Epidaurus, Aristotle and his ripples of the day, Zhuangzi and the butterfly, the dream reader of Ephesus, Descartes and his three dreams, Freud's dream of Irma, Jung's house with many floors, the night REM sleep was found in Chicago, and what scientists think dreams might be for. No background needed, and if you drift off, good. Marcus Snorelius keeps you company, and the last stretch is a slow drift into sleep. Chapters 0:00:00 Where do you go when you fall asleep? 0:02:57 Egypt and the oldest dream book 0:13:25 Epidaurus, sleeping in the healing halls 0:22:26 Aristotle and the ripples of the day 0:34:11 Zhuangzi's butterfly dream 0:45:04 The dream reader of Ephesus 0:54:53 Descartes, three dreams and a doubt 1:05:33 Paris, the first dream watchers 1:16:14 Freud and the dream you write to yourself 1:28:17 Jung and the house with many floors 1:38:00 Chicago, the night the pens jumped 1:48:12 What are dreams for? 1:58:32 Where it stands, and drifting off