Most people wake up, remember a flash of something strange from the night before, and move on with their morning. It’s always, “all I know is that my dreams were weird ,” then forgotten by the time you’ve poured your coffee. Science thinks that’s a mistake.  Researchers at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca in Italy spent four years collecting over 3,300 dream and waking reports from 207 adults, published in Communications Psychology . Every morning, participants recorded voice memos describing whatever was running through their heads before waking up. Throughout the day, random text message prompts triggered more recordings of their waking experiences. Three AI language models then scored everything across 16 dimensions—vividness, emotional intensity, bizarreness, social interaction, and more. Videos by VICE The findings are hard to dismiss. People who believed dreams were meaningful reported richer, more vivid, more content-heavy dreams.…