Your Dreams May Be Practice For Real Life, According to a Neuroscientist

What’s going on in your brain when you dream? Are your sleeping thoughts random and meaningless? Or are your dreams trying to tell you something? To get answers, we talked to Ben Rein, a neuroscientist at the Stanford School of Medicine and a content creator with over 700,000 followers on TikTok. Rein became a neuroscientist because of a horrifying nightmare he had. He couldn’t believe his brain could generate such imagery and make him believe all of his experiences were real while he was dreaming. “I was awed by the power of the brain,” he says. Watch this to learn more, with Part 4 of our neuroscience expert series. [View in Browser]( [Popular Mechanics]( [SHOP]( [EXCLUSIVE]( [SUBSCRIBE]( [Your Dreams May Be Practice For Real Life, According to a Neuroscientist]( [Your Dreams May Be Practice For Real Life, According to a Neuroscientist]( What’s going on in your brain when you dream? Are your sleeping thoughts random and meaningless? Or are your dreams trying to tell you something? To get answers, we talked to Ben Rein, a neuroscientist at the Stanford School of Medicine and a content creator with over 700,000 followers on TikTok. Rein became a neuroscientist because of a horrifying nightmare he had. He couldn’t believe his brain could generate such imagery and make him believe all of his experiences were real while he was dreaming. “I was awed by the power of the brain,” he says. Watch this to learn more, with Part 4 of our neuroscience expert series. [Read More]( [Neil deGrasse Tyson: How the Webb Telescope Lets Us See ‘Ghosts’ of the Past]( [Neil deGrasse Tyson: How the Webb Telescope Lets Us See ‘Ghosts’ of the Past]( The astrophysicist unpacks how the telescope gives us an unprecedented view of the universe, billions of years ago. [Read More]( [Alternate text] [Alternate text] [Solution to the Two Ships Riddle]( [Solution to the Two Ships Riddle]( Did you get it right? [Read More]( [Remember When ... A Soviet Nuclear Submarine Sank off the Coast of Bermuda]( Remember When ... A Soviet Nuclear Submarine Sank off the Coast of Bermuda]( Someone salvaged some of the missiles and their warheads, and it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who. [Read More]( [Alternate text] [Alternate text] [To Win the Nobel Prize in Physics, These Scientists Casually Proved Einstein Wrong]( [To Win the Nobel Prize in Physics, These Scientists Casually Proved Einstein Wrong]( Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, and John Clauser share the highest award in physics for their research on quantum entanglement. [Read More]( [The U.S. Never Successfully Fielded an Instant Foxhole Bomb, But Russia Sure Did]( [The U.S. Never Successfully Fielded an Instant Foxhole Bomb, But Russia Sure Did]( ... and the small, compact explosive device could make an appearance in Ukraine this winter. [Read More]( [Alternate text] [90-Day Transformation Challenge: Abs]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection]( PopularMechanics.com ©2022 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019