09/28/2026
Every night you enter a world that feels completely real — and every morning it vanishes. Freud said dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly and woke up unsure which was the dream. Now neuroscience says REM sleep is overnight therapy: your brain replays the day and drains the pain out of hard memories. So what are dreams — truth, memory, or illusion?