your ears are here and us on the air right now because yours are connected to the air yeah they're called yours yes if you were out in space you wouldn't be able to hear us because you would be able to hear the air bouncing off the little speakers so i want to ask a question and the answer is no and i'm not going to ask you we've got a special guest yes a special guest kristen yeah hi and kristen is our high school consultant yes so make know that i'm interested in the dreams people have i've heard people you know say oh i don't dream which i don't think is probably technically true or that i never remember what they are and then sometimes those dreams seem more real than your real life yeah i heard you say that you dream about water damage sometimes man this is how i learned i was middle aged that when i was a young person i used to have a lot of dreams about killing people and about being killed particular people  sometimes but rare are usually not ok not that extreme really what are your dreams like are usually pretty vague and don't make any sense i can't even explain some of them they're like oh really freaky creepy movie kind of thing you know they're not really creepy they just they're like sometimes i'll just find random people from school and then they don't even talk to you and you're talking to them in your dreams or they're just the water running water yeah i have these dreams were sometimes i wake up and i'm like oh man i'm so glad that that didn't happen yeah i don't ever experience that like something like like maybe you drove the car off a cliff and you're like oh man i shouldn't drive up there i recur it's like exactly the same dream or ones that like pick up the story where it left off like like it t v show when i was a young kid yes i always had this recurring nightmare and it was this dark area and there were always these like three tunnels to go down and i had to choose one every time but there were always monsters in all of them and i was always so scared every time and finally one day i went to my mom's office room and i was carrying all my stuffed animals and i finally told her about it it never happened again really so i found that when ever i tell us when my dreams and never come back well we're going to tell you about this song and then you'll never come  very that was pretty cool you are back yes well back to the show everybody so that's how you can get my brother used to have this whole thing about how he could control the dreams he could tell that he was dreaming and then he said if you know if you find out that you're dreaming in your sleep then you can make anything happen that's what he said so you could just do stuff he said you can make the sky rain with money or you can do anything you want because you realize you're dreaming lucid dream yeah he would he would do that that i guess that yeah that is lucy try one and to try that one time and i did some research on it and apparently it does like really weird stuff to your brain really messes you up i've never been good at it i don't then i'll recognize i'm dreaming but then i never got the control over it right but i've i've heard you can practice like as you're going to sleep before you turn off the lights you like one technique is you look at your hands you see your hands right yeah you can see your hands in your dream and then you tell yourself where next time i see my hands remember i'm dreaming and so when you see your hands and you dream that's a cue that triggers this memory that oh and now you now you recognize while you're in the dream you're dreaming and now you can start trying to take control over it and make things happen where you don't look at your hands with that's what i do i never look apparently i never let my ask i've never worked for me i have this dream journal by my bed and it's for like when you wake up you write down your dreams and i would control it better but i never really have the time to write it down or just my dream isn't interesting enough to write it down i used to have these like really violent dreams or i would be hacked to death or something and i used to have a whole lot of dreams where i was everybody we're back on the show and we hope you're not asleep and if you are i hope you want to talk to you could dream we want to talk to you because we're now in your dream yeah i've got a question around this now have you ever had either a dream that changed your life actually changed the way from that moment on you would behave or feel or think i had these like james about me and my best friend and they made me really happy like just us being in the same dream together it made me feel closer with her even though you know it's just a dream still somehow it feels like you've had this shared experience i've had like three dreams with her and it's really great when i was about ten or twelve thirteen something like that couple  other kids in the neighborhood and i used to like play a war type games and we dressed like you know it in nazi soldiers or allied soldiers and you know and we'd build models of world war two you know things and we'd record tape recordings of explosion noises and we'd run around and shoot at each other and stuff like that and i had one dream one night and it was in my  mother's townhouse where i lived and the nazis were coming and i was hiding up in my bedroom in my bedroom closet and i heard the boots coming up the stairs and i heard the you know the soldier looking in the all the rooms and came into my room and opened the door you know the soldier standing there and there i'm terrified any points a gun and squirts me it's a squirt gun and he laughs and i walk in there shuts the door and walks away and i'm just full of this relief and then but i'm still scared because there are all these you know nazi soldiers you know or and i hear the boots coming up the stairs again and come into my room and the door opens and it's a different soldier and this one's got the real gun and he shoots me and i die and i remember waking up you know just terrified and i go in myself why do i think war is fun why does anyone play at this and from that point on i never would join in those games anymore because as i felt like i now had an understanding that we're actually and that i didn't somehow couldn't figure out from like i'm sitting in a room just like i'm sitting here and all the sudden i realize that i can flip my wings a little bit i fly and i was like i bet you guys didn't know that i could fly like that it's true i didn't know you do it with a flapping see my best yang dreams are always it's just a mental i can kind of levitate myself and direct myself and you know i'm going this way or that way but i don't actually have to move any limbs to do it and i usually have to move some limbs to to fly more like you know iron man you know i just i've heard that sometimes those are related the following i've done the falling dreams too that you know the falling dreams and sometimes the falling dreams can be can happen with a bounce and then you fly you know my very favorite flying dream i remember from probably i don't know thirty forty years ago geeky on multiple for well i've definitely had those stress dreams where i realize i was signed up for some classes at some school and i never went to any of the classes and it's time to take that final exam and i'm like w feel or i you know i have a lot of those every semester all the way through every year of schooling i had and once a few you know finish school i never had them again i still have them and many times i have a dream where i assume that i'm much younger than i am and i wake up i'm does boy get it like that this is you dream that you're your age or you're older or you're younger the way to tell i can't tell but i don't think usually i can see myself in my dreams or i'm just not there at all so you're just like the i'm just watching them of a movie right you're outside it sometimes i'm in them but i can't ever see myself you ever switch like which character you are i have no idea see i do that a lot my dreams are extremely they do you ever wake up laughing you know as having happened to me sometimes it's rare but i love it when it happens where the thing is so funny that you actually laugh for me forward to experiencing all of these dreams do you ever have like more than one juryman oh yeah i know yeah that's what happened last night i had like five different dreams status changed sometimes the same characters might be in one dream and then they kind of go into the next dream i've had that i remember experiencing dreams that lasted only a couple seconds yeah just holding a baby that's the dream it's just i'm holding a baby and then dreams over next thing you know i jonathan's all the time i generally dream like probably dozens a night and they're usually not very connected to each other again now one of the types of dreams that i have that kind of weird me out is i have these serial dreams where there's a story going on and i might only have the dream like once every six months but as soon as i'm in the dream i remember exactly what had been happening and then it picks up from exactly that same point and i remember the old dreams like i had the character me in the dream has this memory of what was going on and then when i wake up and i don't have that dream again for six months but then i pick it up again six months right from where it ended that last time you guys ever have that kind of thing i well what happens to me is many times as i'm falling asleep i reach a certain point when i remember all the dreams i had last night and yeah so what happened to me i and falling asleep this is one thing i've noticed when i'm falling asleep many times i get more tired and more tired and then i can have a vision like i'm seeing yeah and i'll either wake up or just keep happening it's really weird when that happens to me i usually know all of that i'm falling asleep and there's no turning back yeah and it's not like it has any stories just like a picture  they happens almost that fast to me as it's weird and that's right around the time is when i remember all the dreams i had the previous night that doesn't happen to me though now do you know what's going on in the brain when you're dreaming is that you know she thinks he knows everything i know something about a lot of thing that this is not really verified by research because it's a hard thing to test but it's my best guess from what i do know about the research party or brain hippocampus is in charge of figuring out at the end of the day what things that happen that they are important to remember long term and it does that moving things kind indus long term storage while you're sleep which is why if you don't sleep you actually lose your long term memories you know they don't get formed properly and so then you look back to your dreams or why did it have those weird things you know these just little bits and pieces from the day randomly inserted into your dream and my my belief is it's you're actually kind of witnessing your brain moving things around in too long know from short term memory to long term memory kind of so it's like that one inside out yeah it's like that yep and when they're sleep that's when they would do the memory storage stuff and so i think that's part of what then comes into your you know influences pieces of the dream just like if especially if it's something that happened that day probably your brain is actually kind of reliving that thing as it decides this is important to store or not now hypnosis when you go under hypnosis and you can remember things that you could remember the little i understand about the hypnagogic state is it's kind of at that place you were talking about where use notice you're starting to fall asleep right at that point you're relaxing a lot of the control you have over your emotions your thoughts right which is why dreams go in all sorts of weird directions and so if someone is sitting there helping to guide it you can be guided right but that doesn't necessarily mean it's some magical  this or do that and you do so i don't i don't know there's something you know all the things that people like to claim about hypnosis and it being some kind of magical thing it's just a normal part of you know humans are suggestible humans are manipulat dream tell us your dream and email tom and tom and doug dot com tell him tell him the dreams that you're having especially if they're about me would be a nice thing that would be a fun thing and yet be creepy to the same time well if it's going to be a