IELTS Speaking for Success - 😴 Dreams (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

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Hello, Sunshine. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we are the host of the AIL Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you super grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high aisle score. Your bad nine score. Oh, wow, Rory, you'll never guess what I dreamt about the other night. Oh, wow, what? Tell me. I saw, I was sleeping and I saw clearly that on Instagram success with IELTS, we had 50 million fans, 50, like 55, 0 million subscribers to our Instagram.

That is crazy. On the subject of this, shall we talk about dreams? Let's talk about dreams. Yeah, dear listen, the topic is dreams. So, like, you sleep and you see dreams. Yeah, the other meaning is like my dream is to visit Paris, for example, or my dream is to see Rory. Maybe your dream is to see Rory. I've seen Rory, but I haven't seen Rory for a long time.

You haven't. It's been like two weeks. Oh, well, two weeks since we recorded, I suppose. But years since real life. Do you have to find? have dreams? I suppose I must do, but I rarely remember them in vivid detail, to be honest. I think it's, well, that's normal, but it could also be just because my memory isn't that great. Can you remember the dreams you had? Like I said, that is super rare. It's only if they're very weird ones,

like the ones you have when you eat too much cheese or even bad nightmares. In the past, I used to have lucid dreams where I realized I was dreaming and I could do what I liked. They always started with bouncing on a trampoline and then I could work out that I could just bounce higher and higher until I could fly. Those were always really fun. Do dreams have special meanings? I think I've read once that dreams were your brain processing information. So maybe they could be showing you things that you missed or subconsciously stressed about in an effort to try and deal with the issue. I don't know much about human psychology, though, so that could just be random white noise and images from your brain relaxing for all I know.

Do you share your dreams with others? Not often, really, but then I don't usually remember anything that's interesting enough to have a full-blown conversation about. It's funny, though, because my friends do it all the time. They even have a group chat for that kind of thing where they talk about the things they've seen and done. They obviously have better recall or more interesting brains than I do.

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See you soon. So, dear listener, dreams. So, Rory, how do we use this word, like dreams? Like, I see dreams, I dream about, I have dreams. Oh, all of it. If you have dreams, then you have the experience. But if you see your dreams, then obviously you talk about what you can see or you remember seeing when you have dreams. Can I say, I usually dream about something?

It could be, yeah. Although, do people usually dream about the same things? I sometimes have dreams. I see different people in my dreams. I dream about something strange. Yeah? Like the topic that you or the subject that you dream about. Yeah, but sometimes like people have, for example, one thing that they often see in their dreams.

As for me, I often dream that I fly seriously. Like I just, you know, like, I don't have wings, but I have my arms instead of wings. and with my arms, I kind of, I fly around. Landscapes change. I can fly inside a building in my flat, for example, or outside, you know, with beautiful nature, or between countries as well, you know. Oh, what a cheap way to travel. I fly in my dreams. What about you, dear listener?

Have you ever flown in your dreams? So, you can say, I rarely have dreams rarely, hardly ever. almost never or I often have dreams I often dream about something but I don't remember my dreams in vivid detail but that just means in a lot of detail like like you would see a picture almost you could describe it that clearly if we have a vivid description it's clear powerful with very detailed images. For example, I have a very vivid imagination. I can imagine all little details. And you can say, like, my memory isn't that great. My memory is, you know, bad. My memory isn't that great. So I don't remember my dreams. I think most people don't remember their dreams, though. If anyone

wants to disagree with me, then they can, but I think they don't really, do they? No, actually, I often remember my dreams. Like, you know, like the minute... Oh, wow, you're really lucky. Like the minutes you get up, you usually kind of remember the main idea, but then it just like, it disappears. Or maybe, dear listener, you never see dreams. Or I don't know. I might see dreams, but I just don't remember. Maybe you don't want to remember. It's too spooky.

What do you call a bad dream? A nightmare. Yeah. Sometimes I have bad nightmares. Oh, I never have nightmares. nightmares. Have you ever had a nightmare? Oh yeah, a couple of times. And they were like dreadful. Like, ooh, I never have nightmares, but I've had, I remember like three horrible nightmares, but if I have one, if I have a nightmare, it's really bad. I scream, you know, I just wake up,

like screaming like this, like in a movie, you know, oh yeah, it's just, wow. Right. So, dear listener, If you never remember your dreams, you can say it's super rare. Like very rare, rare, like almost never. Can you remember your dreams? It's super rare. Or I rarely remember my dreams. Like I hardly ever remember my dreams. I almost never remember my dreams.

Rory, here you started talking about cheese. Cheese like yum, yum, yum. cheese? Like, why? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe that's just like an urban legend, but some people have said to me that they remember having weird dreams after they eat too much cheese or after they eat cheese. Interesting. If you Google it, like cheese dreams. Okay, so if you go to McDonald's and you eat all of McDonald's before going to bed, you will have beautiful dreams, right? I don't know. I don't know. Hold on, hold on I type in cheese dreams on the internet. On internet. A cheese dream.

Yeah, so there's an article on the BBC. Does cheese give you vivid dreams? Wow. But it could be an urban legend, you know? Like urban legend is like a myth, you know. Like they say like if you eat meat before going to bed, you will also have like bad dreams. Because meat is difficult to digest in your body.

Is it? Yeah, because it takes time to kind of to digest meat. And your body is working while you're sleeping. and you might have some bad dreams and your sleep will be disturbed. Rory mentioned a specific term lucid dream from psychology. So a lucid dream is a dream in which the person who is dreaming is asleep, but they know that they are dreaming. So you can say, I sometimes have lucid dreams,

or I've had lucid dreams before that was fun and Rory told us like I realized I was dreaming so I was sleeping I realized I was dreaming and I could do what I liked well I could do what I liked

and I chose to fly good choice yeah yeah I like my flying dreams it's pretty cool when you realize this it seldom happens these days but not after cheese Okay, when I sell my business, I want the best tax and investment advice.

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Some people think that dreams have special meanings. Oh, I saw a frog in my dream. What does it mean, doctor? Ooh, a frog is a lucky thing to see. Or maybe a snake. Actually, I saw snakes in my dreams a couple of times. One's like a green snake, a yellow snake. And a couple of times I saw teeth, you know.

Oh, wow. Do you ever have the dream where your teeth are falling out? Yeah, yeah, with blood. Pretty disgusting, yeah. That's crazy, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. And sometimes actually it's a good sign, depending if you have, if you had pain, yeah, and if you had blood. Yeah, if it wasn't painful,

If kind of, okay, teeth fell out, but it was okay, I was happy. So, yeah, it could be in something good. But I was thrilled at my teeth now. Yeah, dear listen, so we can say, like, yeah, I think that dreams have meanings. And our dreams can show us things that we are missing. It's like we don't understand something. And my dreams show me these things. my subconsciousness.

Okay. Rory, what is subconsciousness? Oh, God. Okay, so grossly overgeneralizing. If you are an expert in human psychology, please do not kill me. So, consciousness is the thing that you are aware of when you are thinking and in control of your thoughts.

Subconscious is something that is like under this. it's things that we don't actively think about, but they influence our decisions and our thoughts. So you might subconsciously be stressed out and in your dreams that shows up with a nightmare, for example. Yeah, sorry, I said the wrong word, subconscious, dear listen. Yeah, we call it subconscious, my subconscious, the part of my mind that notices and remembers information that you may not realize. So it's like, it's deep within my subconscious. And we can say like on the subconscious level, on the level that we may not realize ourselves, but it's just there. So you kind of, you are generally happy, everything's fine, but deep inside, you know.

Deep inside you are miserable. Yeah, that's true. And then kind of like you bury it deep down, right? So my subconscious. And we can say that our people's subconscious shows us different dreams. Then, dear listen, you can say, like, I don't know much about human psychology. Right? I don't know.

I have no idea. I'm not a psychologist. You should ask Dr. Freud. I was practicing these questions with one of my students. And actually, this came up in her test. But when she was talking to me, she talked about cognitive functions. Oh. But that's things that we use.

use when we are thinking. According to Google, dreams often have personal significance, you know, because our brain process emotions. Our brain works with emotions, memories. I often share my dreams with my friends or I never share dreams with others because some dreams could be weird. So you can say, I often see strange dreams and I keep them to myself. So I just never talk about them. But some people have a group chat for this. Really? I mean, I don't think that's a very common occurrence, but it was something weird I found out recently,

so I thought I would share. So you can say that I don't remember my dreams, so I can't have a full-blown conversation about it. A full-blown conversation? So pretty much I can't say much about my dreams. That's why I can't have a conversation about this topic. But when I see my parents in my dreams, when I see my friends in my dreams, I can tell them that, oh, I, and how do I say it?

Like, I dreamt about you or I saw you in my dream? Well, it could be both, really. And that describes the same idea. Like, oh, Rory, I saw you in my dream. You were flying. Hmm. Okay. Oh, Rory, you bought me shoes in my dream.

Hmm, interesting. Yes, that's how you know it was a dream because I would never do this because I'm not made of money. And if you remember your dreams, you can say, I can recall my dream. So I can recall all my dreams, recall, like, remember, and I discuss the most interesting ones with my friends. With my friends. Really, listen. So, we're wondering, like, do you remember your dreams? Like, what's the weirdest dream that you ever had?

I'll get back to you in the next episode, or see you in your dreams, perhaps. What a nightmare. In a beautiful dream. No, no, no. Yeah, hopefully you'll see only a nice, beautiful dreams with you speaking English. having band nines, okay? So have a band nine dream, dear listener. A band nine dream and a band nine day.

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Do you often have dreams? I suppose I must do, but I rarely remember them in vivid detail, to be honest. I think it's, well, that's normal, but it could also be just because my memory isn't that great. Can you remember the dreams you had? Like I said, that is super rare. It's only if they're very weird ones, like the ones you have when you eat too much cheese. or even bad nightmares. In the past, I used to have lucid dreams

where I realized I was dreaming and I could do what I liked. They always started with bouncing on a trampoline and then I could work out that I could just bounce higher and higher until I could fly. Those were always really fun. Do dreams have special meanings? I think I read once

that dreams were your brain processing information. so maybe they could be showing you things that you missed or subconsciously stressed about in an effort to try and deal with the issue. I don't know much about human psychology though, so that could just be random white noise and images from your brain relaxing for all I know. Do you share your dreams with others?

Not often, really, but then I don't usually remember anything that's interesting enough to have a full-blown conversation about. It's funny, though, because my friends do it all the time. They even have a group chat for that kind of thing, where they talk about the things they've seen and done. They obviously have better recall or more interesting brains than I do.