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Why Do We Dream?

Vsauce · 11,248,744 visualizações · Adicionado há 3 semanas

Estatísticas de aprendizado

B1

Nível CEFR

5/10

Dificuldade

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00:00

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And today we are going to talk about why we dream.

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What's going on inside our brains?

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The scientific study of dreaming is called oneriology.

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And for most of history, it didn't really exist,

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because you can't hold a dream.

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It's difficult to measure a dream, you can't taste it.

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You can't see other people's dreams,

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and if you ask them to tell you what they dreamt,

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the results are almost always unreliable.

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In fact, it's estimated that we forget 85 percent

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of the dreams we have, especially within the first ten minutes of having them.

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But then, in 1952, something amazing happened.

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Researchers at the University of Chicago found this.

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It's a unique type of electrical activity

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that occurs during a certain stage of a person sleeping.

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When researchers awoke people during this stage,

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they almost always reported that they had been dreaming.

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Also, at the same time, during this stage, people's eyeballs are going crazy,

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rapidly darting all over the place underneath their eyelids.

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You can actually see this happening if you watch people sleep like I usually do.

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During REM sleep, some pretty bizarre stuff happens.

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If you look at the electrical activity of a brain

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that is in REM sleep, it almost exactly mimics

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the way the brain acts when it's awake.

01:18

The biggest difference being that the production of chemicals inside the brain

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