 Hello, Psych2Go community! My name is Matt, and I'm coming at you from my channel, DOSKOOGIE, and today we're here to talk about what happens at night. More importantly, what happens to you at night, or even just while you're dreaming. So yeah, for all you day sleepers with night shifts, this still applies to you, so watch on. We will be checking out three odd but true facts about dreams. Brought to you by our amazing writer, DK. Odd but true fact number one, dreaming actually makes you smarter. In a recent study, people who took naps featuring REM sleep, in which dreams are the most vivid, performed better on creativity oriented word problems, that is the REM, or rapid eye movement sleep, helped people to combine ideas in new ways, according to psychiatrist Sarah Mednick, who led the study. So basically, if you're trying to beat Einstein's IQ, six hours just isn't going to make the cut. Fact number two, you forget 90% of your dreams. We forget almost all dreams soon after waking up. Our forgetfulness is generally attributed to neurochemical conditions in the brain that occur during REM sleep, a phase of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and dreaming, but that may not be the whole story. Perhaps the most compelling explanation is the absence of the hormone norepinephrine in the cerebral cortex, a brain region that plays a key role in memory, thought, language, and consciousness. So all those good times you had dancing on Candy Mountain, yeah, they're forgotten, but that may or may not be a good thing. Fact three, people do dream in colors contrary to popular belief. In the mid 20th century, people generally thought most of their dreams were black and white, no longer. The key appears to be different levels of group exposure to black and white media. Dream researchers found that older people tended to dream in black and white, while younger people dreamed in color. That is found to be attributed to exposure to media. People who watched TV in colors were more likely to dream in colors. These have been three odd but true facts about dreams, brought to you by Psych2Go. We'd love to hear about your wacky, crazy, out-of-this-world dream in the comments below. If you liked this video, feel free to throw a click at the thumbs up and subscribe to this channel for more epic facts of mass knowledge. Once again, my name is Matt, coming to you from my channel Das Cookie. If you'd like to read this article, subscribe to Psych2Go or subscribe to my channel. The links are all in the description below. Thanks for watching and dream on, dreamers. Peace.