You Spend 6 Years of Your Life Dreaming — and Remember None of It. Here's Why.

Every night your brain builds a fully conscious, structured experience — and then deletes almost all of it before you're even out of bed. This is the real, scientifically-documented reason your dreams disappear within minutes of waking up, and why your brain is built to make that happen on purpose. 📍 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro — The 90% You Forget 0:23 The 1953 Discovery 1:04 Ancient Egypt & Greece Dream Temples 1:40 Crick & Mitchison's Reverse Learning (1983) 2:32 Gina Poe & The Missing Chemical 3:32 Sleep Inertia Explained 4:01 REM Atonia — Why Your Body Is Paralyzed 4:32 The Posterior Hot Zone (Siclari, 2017) 5:37 Six Years of Your Life 6:00 The Moment You Wake Up 6:29 Why Dream Journals Work 6:45 The Nightmares That Survive 7:16 The Uncomfortable Question 7:32 Why Evolution Built This 8:10 Closing Thoughts 🔬 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Crick, F. & Mitchison, G. (1983) — "The function of dream sleep," Nature Poe, G.R. (2017) — "Sleep Is for Forgetting," Journal of Neuroscience Siclari, F. et al. (2017) — "The neural correlates of dreaming," Nature Neuroscience [Link placeholder — add your source citation page or blog post here] Subscribe for more videos. #dreams #Neuroscience #SleepScience #REM #WhyDoWeDream