He sat down with Inverse to discuss dreams, nightmares, mental health, and why lucid dreaming is overhyped. The way scientists think of dreams now is any type of event that happens while asleep that is typically remembered upon awakening. The type of dream people often confuse with nightmares are what we call stress dreams. Remembering our dreams really is like a muscle, and the more we work on it, the better we get. And then a lot of times that bleeds into my dreams, which allows me to have some kind of weird and wild dreams.