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Neuroscientist and author David Eagleman discusses how our brain interprets the world and what that means for us. Through storytelling, research, interviews, and experiments, David Eagleman tackles wild questions that illuminate new facets of our lives and our realities.

Spoken has transcripts of 187 Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 5, 2026.

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Latest Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman transcripts

Re-Release "Why Do Brains Dream"

October 5, 2026

David Eagleman (0:04)

Why do brains dream? And what's going on with the bizarreness of dreams? Why doesn't your clock work in your dreams? And even though you spent a lot of your day working on cell phones and computers, why do those almost never make appearances in your dream content? There's so many cool questions that we're going to…

Is dream content the same across cultures and across time?

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