A Sleep Scientist Excavates The World Of Dreams

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Listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. We've all had them. Those unsettling dreams that jolt us out of sleep.

Maybe you're back in high school, unprepared for a final exam, or searching desperately for something that you've lost. Strange, vivid scenarios that feel real in the moment and leave us rattled when we wake up. My colleagues here at Fresh Air are no exception. Here's what keeps some of them up at night. I'm driving a convertible and suddenly I'm thrown through the roof of the car into the sky and I'm flying, which sounds very liberating, but unlike Superman, I feel powerless, I'm terrified, and then I wake up.

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