59. Do Dreams Actually Mean Anything?
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I love this. We should get this produced. I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Steven Dubner. And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
Today on the show, is there any significant reason we should pay attention to our dreams? And then the cake turns out to be made of shards of glass. Also, what is the connection between music and memory. Conjunction, junction, what's in function.
Cooking up words and phrases and clauses. Angela, how much attention should I or anyone pay to their dreams? I know there's a long literature in psychology about the meaningfulness of dreams and dream interpretation, but I've also read that the content of dreams is often overvalued, that the content itself can be essentially meaningless and it's a waste of time to interpret them per se. So where does the truth lie?
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