Why Do We Dream? Science for Kids

Dad, How Does It Work? Science Podcast for Kids · Mar 26, 2026 · 6m

You wake up and it felt completely real.

Like you were flying… or talking to someone who wasn’t there.

But you were just lying in bed the whole time.

So how did your brain make all of that?

If you’re asleep… shouldn’t everything just stop?

Then you start noticing something strange.

Your brain isn’t actually off at all.

It’s doing something with everything you saw and felt today.

Mixing it. Changing it. Turning it into a dream.