#1 Brain Surgeon: What Your Dreams Are Trying To Tell You About Yourself | Rahul Jandial
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Have you ever woken up from a vivid dream and wondered about its meaning? Or perhaps questioned the purpose of dreaming altogether? It’s certainly a fascinating topic and one which I have never covered before on my podcast.
This week, I’m delighted to welcome back Dr Rahul Jandial, a dual-trained neurosurgeon and neurobiologist. He is an expert in brain health, a world-renowned brain surgeon who routinely undertakes complex cancer operations and he’s also the author of the brand-new book, ‘This is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life’.
During our conversation, Rahul explains his belief, that we sleep, in order to dream. When we are asleep, our brains are not resting but instead shift into a different state where areas linked to imagination and creativity become more active.
While dreams remain a largely unexplained phenomenon, Rahul shares his insights into common dream themes, the importance of dreams in childhood brain development, and the highly personal nature of dream interpretation. He also covers practical techniques for remembering dreams, the concept of lucid dreaming, the potential links between dreaming and future brain health, and also shares some profound insights about the brain at the time of death.
Throughout our conversation, Rahul emphasises that although dreams have captivated humans for centuries, they remain a mysterious and intensely personal aspect of our lives.
However, if we approach our dreams with curiosity, they have the potential to gift us valuable insights about the contents of our minds and our emotions.
The topic of dreams clearly resonates with many of you - I received over 1,000 comments and questions about dreams when I announced this upcoming episode on my Instagram page. And, I’m happy to say that Rahul answers some of these questions throughout our discussion, offering his unique perspective as both a neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon.
So whether you're a vivid dreamer or someone who rarely remembers their dreams, this episode offers a captivating glimpse into our sleeping minds.
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I'm just thinking of questions as I listen so forgive me if you have covered this I am 45mins in...I'm curious there is some research to suggest that the heart has its own brain I wonder what significance this has to dreaming if any? Thank you for your work and for sharing it
And another question whats the difference in the brain during meditation and dreaming?
Sure! All the time!
I do
Where can we take such surveys?
When I was pregnant, my doctor said my belly was big because I had a baby and a tumor, but I said in my dreams my other baby is telling me he is not a tumor! So I went to another doctor and got a sonogram and there he was my other baby! His heart rate was very low but it was twins not a tumor! They were also in the same sac which is rare and very high risk. The one with the low heart rate was a problem according to the doctors and they wanted to abort him, but I did not because I knew through my dreams both babies were talking to me and one twin would kick the other so his heart rate would go up. I signed papers so they could share this case because it was really unbelievable. You could watch them during a sonogram play this out. Anyway my dreams changed the direction of my pregnancy! My twin boys are 23yrs old now, I am VERY blessed!❤😊
Thank God. Did you see the comment above about the woman who had the two abortions?
It’s a miracle!
Wow, you are very blessed. I believe we have extra senses that have not yet been discovered or confirmed.
I can confirm that there is definitely communication on a deep level between the mother and the child. I too saw my daughter and her features before she was born and she is exactly as I knew her through the dreams during that pregnancy. Uncanny.
@@DFMoray What?
I am totally blind, and some of my favorite dreams are when I can see, and I can walk through forest and run through parks and browse bookstores without any assistance from anyone. I love being able to dream about being able to see
That’s amazing , I wonder if the images you see in your dreams is different or the same as what the average “seeing” person sees ( if that makes sense )
O my dear friend, that is so precious. Thank you for sharing.
Try dreaming about flying your own personal craft.
Just ask for it before you go to sleep.
It’s the landing part that takes practice. No worries. You got this. 💫🤩
That's wonderful.
I'm disabled so being able to not feel pain is amazing.
@@Skala76 that’s a really good question, I could see until I was 26 and I think my dreams are much more vivid after I lost my vision, but of course this is just my own personal experience between dreaming with vision and dreaming without vision. Thanks for your reply.🦋
I had a dream that I was able to hug my son again. I'm so grateful for dreams I really am. I woke up sobbing but it was so nice to have my son back in my arms again.
Thats Deep. Iam realy sorry for your los.
Iam a father myself and reading your comment hit me emotionally.
I had the same experience with my mother a few days after she passed. It was wild. I was like OMG I'm so happy to see you! Dreams are something else!!
I had this dream about my best friend. I understand it’s not the same but for me to be able to hug my best friend again was incredible. I also was crying when I woke up.
I am sure he loves you. ❤
@@JulieAriella11It is the same grief. Different relationship, but the same pain.
I have had dreams where I wake up ,go back to sleep, and dream part 2 of it,even 3 parts.
I experience this too.
Some times I just get up,nightmares
Me as well@@mrsANGRYh
I've had that too!!
💛
Sleeping is more enjoyable than life, which is progressively getting harder and more expensive
My thoughts
This sounds like depression. But Im no doctor.
@AnonYmous-vu1lw it's not depression, just dreams are usually adventurous, have no accountability, are magical and not at all practical. Instead of watching a fantasy film, you're in it.
I agree 100%. My mom warns to not be an ostrich with my head in the sand.
@@AnonYmous-vu1lw😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀
I woke up laughing uncontrollably, total church giggles with my brother, one of the best dreams I'd ever had. I don't know when I realized I was dreaming, but my abdominal muscles shuddering with laughter woke me up.
I reached out for my phone to call my brother. I had to know, what was so funny? What were we laughing about? He'd be able to help me tease it apart
I had my phone unlocked and was dialing before the kaleidoscope of reality slivered into my brain
My brother passed away 4 years ago
But what a gift that dream was! He and I were in the same space at the same time again, it was so real, so tangible
It was as though he was telling me 'it's OK to laugh again.'
We need The Funny in our lives.
I had a similar dream talking to my sister ( deceased 4 years ago). It was a dream in a dream, and when I woke up I was trying to remember where we had gone. I literally thought it had happened. When I realized it was a dream, I cried when the meaning became abundantly clear. I just sobbed.
@@RRonco 💕
@lggig534 😢I'm sooo sorry for your Loss ❤
I lost my partner 8years ago & l continue to have dreams where we are together & being intimate which l mean in the sense of the intense loving emotions l feel in the dream & l feel everything that l felt while he was alive. In these moments l take them that l we are still connected in the love we shared together 💔💭🫶🏼They feel incredibly special & so real!! So sorry for your loss 💔
Loss is so incredibly hard. Keep laughing. Don’t loose your sense of humor.
My dreams are so detailed. Nothing I can relate to in my awakened life. It’s like watching a movie. I love to go to sleep and dream. Sometimes I wonder if it’s another life I’m in.
I dream a lot about the movies I watch
There is so much symbolizing in dreams, use your common sense in figuring out meanings, like if your driving in your dream, or is someone esle? Usually means whether you feel you have control in your life, etc.
I have these sort of dreams too
Some cultures believe the dream world is as real as the waking world
Yup.. It's the same for everyone.
I don’t need to go on vacations, I just go to sleep. Each night, a different adventure!
Yes, and since I meditate now, and live remote, I would dislike going on vacations, so I think I understand what you are saying!
Definitely true... vacation for free... no luggage to pack.... & if one beleives in God, a great opportunity to ask HIM "what was that all about?"..👍🏾
I agree! I love dreaming! I've done some lucid dreaming, but I really just find dreams in general so fascinating.
@@15Beaches me too love sleeping
I also love my dreams. Lots of adventures, I have fun and there’s time I hear myself laughing. 😊
I often wonder if we are tapping into an alternate reality. Like looking through a window and seeing our lives unfold in varying dimensions we exist in.
A few months after a medical termination due to abnormalities.. I had a dream that the funeral directors had taken out the tiny white coffin and put it next to another coffin the same and said they would put both back in the same grave... 2 weeks later I found out I was pregnant again... Forward 5 months I had to have another termination due to same genetic abnormalities... Day before the burial the funeral directors called and said if I wanted to bury the second baby in the same grave plot as there was only one space left!
My dream played out months in advance!!
P. S. I had a healthy baby boy the following year who is now 21yrs old
I had a similar situation, had to have a termination, I was distraught over it. Dreamt that same night, that I had the baby and gave him to my sister. See in my dream the baby was a boy. My sister was 38 and never conceived. Two months later she was pregnant, then gave birth to twin boys.
I wonder if had you nod remembered this dream, if it would have been different, i.e. did it become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
@@KLTer-jo9jy no not at all... I forgot about the dream and only remembered it a few weeks after the second burial and was shocked when I realised how significant that dream had been.
❤ I had a precognitive dream when I was 8, that played out when I was 50. (The memory of it stuck because it was terrifying.) Now, at age 69, I continue to marvel at the phenomenon. So glad you've got your son. 🎉
❤❤❤
Shortly after my mom died i had a dream she came to visit me. She was wearing her favorite dress and asked me to look after my sister. About 6 months later i was with my dad, brothers, and sister and mentioned the dream, but only the part about her standing at the end pf my bed in the dress. All of them immediately said they had the same dream and they gave more details...all of which were the same as what i didn't tell them about mine. We were all in a bit of shock that we all "dreamed" the exact same thing.
Well, it was not a "dream". Your mom really came to say her farewell. ♡ My mom had the same thing with her mom.
My
Husbnd told me my dad came to him to tell him to take care of me, just after he died. In a dream.
That's called Familiar spirits
Demons
Anything to do with the dead
Is DEMONIC
I've had that same experience.
Spirit visits u in your dreams to give you messages
Three months ago, I had a dream. I'm from India and a veterinary doctor. I received an acceptance letter from a prestigious university in the USA for a PhD program. I had never been to the USA before. One night, I dreamt that I was shot by gunfire in a church in the USA. The dream was so detailed that I could feel the pain and stress. In the dream, I was praying in that church, which is ironic because I am not a Christian. Two weeks later, I received news that I was no longer accepted to the university due to funding issues. Usually, one would feel sad, but I felt relieved.
Do you think God was calling to you to pray?
@@tammyw2368 I don't know in that dream i am having a white crystal rosary and i am praying to mother mary.The Altar was so beautiful full of white marbles.I am reciting the mother mary something i can't recollect. when i got shot by gunfire i was outside the church in the pavement. i could feel the pain i have felt. I am not christian and I don't know the prayers. but i felt it was real. i think in my life i may convert. i don't know.
If you are Christian you would pray to Christ?
Wow... that's quite amazing 😮
May have been the Hail Marys, since you mentioned a beautiful rosary. @@moonlightwolf1
Anyone else have the same dream where your back in university and fall behind on your courses and fail and just feel so lost and stressed ? Only to wake up and remember you graduated uni 15 years ago 😮💨 😅
42 and still having this dream time to time
My gosh yes! I have had the same type of dreams. In a university, skipping class, falling behind, getting overwhelmed, about to fail. Many variations of this same scenario. I did, unfortunately, play this out in real life although I did overcome this problem eventually and graduated from college. I believe it’s subconscious guilt resulting from wasting opportunities and money. Don’t have these dreams as often now so I assume my subconscious is working it out.
Yes!!! I do all the time!!
Every few months I have the dream where I'm getting my schedule, am late, and am running all over campus searching for my classes.
Used to all the time. Thankfully stopped about 5 years after finished school but it was constant before that.
I love dreaming, I go so many places and meet new friends and visit with old friends and family. Every night is an adventure.
You make dreaming sound amazing
I love that view on dreaming. I saw my grandmother last week in a dream. She passed nearly 20 years ago. She told me my future partner is in Poland lol. We're Polish
Only a psycho can enjoy a dream.... Guess it's you 😅😅😅
@@kaprinal492ah good! At least you don't have to leave the country to find your love!😅❤
@@ironmaven1760 I live in Australia 😂
I’m always fascinated at how, within a dream,
my brain can conjure up the faces and personalities of new people I’ve never seen or met before in real life.
I’ve thought about this too. I woke up crying cause I met a grandmother/matriarch type of family member that I loved sooo much. And in my dream I knew she wasn’t real and I woke myself up from crying in my sleep about it.
So odd.
Try to remember those faces. Perhaps one day you’ll meet them. Also,some say those types of dreams are not of your own but in fact life as another.
@@scarletts4221 I hope there’s truth to all of this dream stuff. Because I also dreamt of a white tiger once. I wasn’t scared of it. It gave ne a vibe like we were friends. And i wished I could go back to sleep and see that again too.
Do you eventually meet them? I've seen people post that they saw a baby before it was born and that it looked exactly the same as the dream.
Apparently you can't dream about faces you never saw. The brain just collects more Data then we can remember concious and it keeps stunning me too. Even intimate dreams are so detailed >
When I was in highschool I was taking Geometry. For homework we had to construct a proof every evening. I would stare and stare at the problem and the theorems, etc. for an hour or two, but I never could construct the proof at night. I would go to bed and sleep, and, when I woke up, I would know the proof which I had to quickly write down. I LOVED this magical process and I was astounded by it; it tickled me! I've tried to remember to use it as I've gone through my life. I'm 78 1/2 now.
That must have been absolutely magical! How beautiful how seamless
I like the 1/2 in your age :)
@@AlicjaChojecka The 1/2 is very important when you are very young and when you are very old. Go figure ........................
@@joannabreaks435 Yes, beautiful and seamless (and, I would say, reliable), but, in fact, it is "bulkier" than logic as a process. I didn't have logic at that time - I was a 14yr. old girl in America's mid-century culture for goodness sake!
What I have observed about this sub-conscious process vs. logic is that when you figure something out with logic, there is an "aha!" or "eureka!" moment as the "mechanism" clicks into place. With this, sub-conscious process, I looked at the problem again and had an "oh yes, of course!" moment as if I already knew the answer (which I did) and was just cleaning up the mess and putting things back in their correct places. That's the way it is for me, anyway.
I love the way Rahul Jandiah is careful to label things as "data" or "theory/conjecture". It helps.
Ramanujan supposedly had the Hindu gods come to him in his dreams and show him proofs
As a psychiatric nurse, I often wonder if my delusional patients are stuck in some sort of dream state...
Leonardo Dicaprio was in the movie Inception.
He was in the movie Inception.
@@susanfudge1737 He was and at the end of the movie his delusional azz thought he was in the real world but the spinning top wouldn't stop spinning so his AZZNADO was wrong.
Trying to resolve things in the dream world because the real world hasn't been safe for them?
And you can't resolve anything without executive functions in the awake world.
There's a theory that suggests psychosis is related to active REM whilst awake.
Anyone else have reoccurring dreams, about surviving, stratigizing, and outsmarting scenarios of alien invasions, tornados, and apocalypse... teeth falling out, can't run, can't find my car, problems trying to use my cellphone, can't get to food or vivid eating, being able to double jump like Mario Bros, 😊driving off a cliff, and a weird, particularly distinct house that I've never seen in this life before...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've also had accurate prediction or premonition dreams... or having to go to sleep in my dream in order to wake up in "real" life...👀🤔
Yes to all! The premonition dreams - I have had what I know now are full on warnings of dangerous situations to come - unfortunately I didn't always take heed - and had to live in horror as my dream came true. They don't make much sense until it happens.
Yes, indeed! And the thing that blows my mind is that not everyone is having these kinds of dreams; also, not to neglect the dreams where everyone is relying on you to do something or some interesting person or group gives you advice and interacts with you - all while blending various known environments into novel environments. It’s always terrible when it’s the series of nightmares, though.
Dale Gribble does
Yes every night
Tornadoes, and I think it’s because I fear them. But as my life improves my vivid stressful dreams are decreasing.
I'm addicted to my dreaming cause I'm aware I'm dreaming and I escape physical life this way, not always good but oh well..
That is referred to as Lucid Dreaming, when you realize you are dreaming
Yes.me too Lucid dreaming
Ditto!
Same
I only lucid dream.
There are people who are born blind that claim that they're dream's contain visual content. This makes me come to the conclusion that we are more than just a body, that we are spiritual beings. And our consciousness goes beyond the physical body.
There is a comment here of a person who is blind and dreams of seeing great testimony.
@@woodcutterdave7835
Hi Dave, I believe we are not just spiritual beings but are actually pure energy. Otherwise, why are we salt based? Nothing conducts electricity better than salt water! When what people refer to as the soul leaving the body after death, in my opinion, is your energy amassing in the brain just as it prepairs to propel you towards your next destination. It would also help our neurologist,rahul Jandial. understand why the brain activity is so massive on his vital signs monitor, even though the heart has been stopped for several minutes. He is absolutely correct that it’s the brain disconecting from our shell. The only difference between his theory and mine is that I think the persons spirit is packing up to move on, not to die. I would like to talk more about this when I have more time. Just to be clear, I’m not religious, I have no agenda, and I’m not a nut job. I think this is string theory on steroids!
@@verygrateful007 It Says he dreams vividly and sometimes in color. It is possible for your brain see things that your eyes cannot. It takes work to realise what an object feels like, looks like, and wbere it might be in your daily life. So why can’t a sightless person dream of things whilst knowing their description,colour,placement? A blind from birth person may not see colours the same way as a sighted person, but so what?
We are spirits having a physical experience.
@@annallen654 Yes we are 🙏❤️
Who else can smell and taste and feel the elements in their dreams?
I have all the senses I have in real life.
I have adhd (late diagnosed) and I've always had epic vivid dreams.
I see people who've passed and it's so real it's like they are back.
I can remember dreams too, I recall some being like 4 years old
I have severe ADHD and I only lucid dream. I have wondered if it’s associated to my ADHD 🤔
I have severe adhd and hate sleeping due to television like dreams...
I just wanna rest
Me too!!
Me, too! My dreams are so epic and involved that even in my 40’s, the details of my dreams really stay with me, sometimes they effect my day. 3 out of ten times may be lucid dreams. I never seriously considered a link between my “other life” and my adhd. Makes sense. 🤷🏾♀️
As a teacher I've learned to introduce a decision that needs to be made (art teacher, so creativity) days in advance so kids can "think on it" but in my own life, it's really "dream on it". Our brain needs a night or two to chew on any problem
Yes!
You are SO wise.. great teacher taking into account dreams... ❤
Or it could be doing something physical like going on a long walk, staring at the sea or sky, or meditating.
@@deborahcurtis1385Some of the greatest minds in the world said they would go for a walk to solve problems.
Ur whole life should be like that. Think, dream, read, see etc the way you want your life to be. It creates your life
I literally dream so vividly every single night that I feel like I live a whole extra life...I am always so tired as I never get "time off ". I related to that show ' Severance' so much!
Me too
Dang that’s crazy, I’m also glad that you mention Severance, it’s such a good show.
I should watch that you just described my exact experience/comment to another person lol
Vivid dreaming is almost the same as being awake as your conscious is working... REM dreaming is the subconscious working
A couple months ago I was visiting my cousin in Chicago and we were basically stoned the entire time. Chicago is a very different world than where I live (suburbia Texas) so everything felt dream like. One night we were driving past downtown under a strawberry moon and it suddenly occurred to me that one of the keys to unlocking the mystery and purpose of life is a very simple child's song. "Row row row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream." I've been studying Buddhism a lot lately, and what I have come to understand is that our lives are like a dream of a greater cosmic consciousness, so it is best lived mindfully, like you're rowing a boat gently down a stream, rather than getting caught up in the turbulent waters of drama, hate, violence, competition. All that to say that I believe this life is another dream, and that our dreams more accurately represent the expansive conscious experience of our higher, immortal selves.
When I was a kid, I could pick what I wanted to dream about. It was like a picture rolladex. I also learned to wake up when I had to go to the bathroom.
I could do that well into my twenties. Then, for some reason, I stopped. I had forgotten that. In my twenties, I think I started awake dreaming, but that takes a lot of concentration to get it started, and only lasts a short time before the brain takes over and forces sleep. I'm now 76. I think I'll try it again.
Same , i used to fly alot !
My sister told me when she was a kid she could change the type of dream she was having by moving her head like she was picking up radio signals
That i so fascinating.
You know your in trouble when you can go to the toilet in your dream 😂
All my troubled dreams are about extreme frustration; can’t reach someone to save them, can’t get attention for help, etc. Paying attention to dreams can be very revealing.
SAME! Exactly the same for me, I try to talk but I can’t get my words out, I try to call but can’t dial the phone…
Me too its really upsetting at times i wake up and want to burst into tears
Me too always can’t do something whatever I do .
Can’t find my shoes when someone is waiting for me in the driveway .
Can’t find my way out of a building etc It always wakes me
This usually means you feel you’re not in control over some aspect of your life.
@@victoriajalepeno5755 Control is an illusion. We really have very little control over what happens to us.
I realized that my dreams weren’t aimless and it changed my life forever. I had dream I walked in a door and was facing a hallway in an office building. I woke up and never thought anything about it. 3 months later I was asked to close an office in a city that I had never been through. I drove down with my supervisor and we walked through the door of the building and I immediately froze. It was the exact same hallway. It had all the windows of the offices and even the bend was the same. Only difference was the color of the walls; in reality they were a peach and in my dream they were white
this happened to me so meny times... i dream about something and that come into reality... but no one believs on me they think I'm delusional... but my dreams became true so meny times
When my Mother died years ago now I was devastated 💔 I had this what I decribe as a waking dream most vividly I saw her waving at me outside the coronary care unit where she'd died she looked so happy and it was like magically soothing for me .
Lovely... Could that have been your mum waving from her post 'death' dimensional state, though? ❤
When my mother died I was asleep 300 kms away. I dreamed my sister, me and my mum were in the front seat of a car my mum was driving. Then she started leaning on me and the car steered off the road. I said to my sister “mum is dead” and I woke up very calm - and learned when Morning came she had in fact died at the same time as my dream.
@@llamarama111this happened to me when my grandfather died.
I had a dream my baby daddy was cheating on me with a girl on Instagram. The next day, i was on Instagram and saw that he had been talking to a girl on their.
I've had dreams of foreboding things to happen. I also dreamed that someone died and then 3 hours later they were gone. It's scary but also like peaceful because the dream already prepared me for it. It's crazy
My mom wanted to learn Russian and listened to it while sleeping. She swore it helped her become more fluent.
We tried it át highschool, it did not help, just couln't sleep, but good luck!
I believe it if it was ongoing. High school teachers are not necessarily well educated. I believe your 👩 mother.
I used to listen to manifestations every night before and during sleep and I saw results within 3 months.
I have to listen to podcasts while I sleep. If I don't I fall into anxiety. I call it my secret super power. I learn while I'm sleeping.
@sobc2737 I had same results!! I had to try different ones but once I found what worked for me it was powerful!!❤❤
So many doctors seem so fake but this Dr is so genuinely humble and humanly interested and fascinated with life.
I have been to houses that I call home and I keep going back and I recognize my own room, the bathroom, the backyard, only in my dreams. I call them home with a passion ❤️
When I dream of home it’s always with all my family and we are sitting at the kitchen table together.
I had brain surgery 22 years ago. Two nights ago I dreamt I was experiencing brain surgery. I was aware of those doing their best to do good work. I don't think I've ever slept so deeply. I felt completely rested upon waking. I wonder why it took so long for me to redream that surgery. I can only presume that it was a good dream, implying that something is finished. It's a completion dream and positive. I think that I intuitively understand the psychological meaning. ❤ Dreams are magic. I've been studying my dreams for 50 years.
maybe it meant some beings or perhaps your brain itself was "fixing itself" to help you sleep better...
You would love the Dream Interpretation Podcast on UA-cam and Apple Podcasts. 😊
Wow! I had brain surgery 22 and half years ago and since then, I have been so good with my health so far. Thanks to the grace of the Almighty. I dream a lot , but not good in interpreting them.
I'd want to ask myself the question: "What in your waking life do I feel I have completed?"
After I experienced an extreme trauma, I couldn’t go to sleep as normal, but would pass out and be out for four hours. During that time, I had no dreams. My eyes would open at four a.m. I would not remember the trauma for a moment or know where I was, but as the reality of what had happened began to hit me, an electric, hot sensation would travel down my arms. And then the sobbing would come. This went on for months. I knew I was healing when dreams began to come again. In retrospect, I believe my brain was helping me escape the trauma for a bit each day. That was 12 years ago. Yesterday, I saw someone who was important to me at the time of the trauma that I hadn’t had contact with since. That night, I dreamt I was in a desert and a sand-colored snake that I could barely detect rose from the sand and bit me on my arm above my wrist. I couldn’t get it off of me, so I wrapped the entire snake around my arm with a cloth. There was no pain. Weird.
Sometimes after a very stressful day, if I can take a 5 min rest, I close my eyes and I'm almost asleep, I have a fast-flasing montage of random images and thoughts with words. Then I "wake up" and feel better. I refer to this state as sorting out my mental filing cabinet. Like a defrag. It's interesting!
I wish I could do that
It's quite common. It's called a LUCID dream. I haven't had a true lucidcdream in years. Supposedly, it's an between awake and sleep state. @mareezy
Same and I agree!
I also get this. Sometimes happens in meditation too.
Me too! While my brain defrags, I see faces of people I've never met flash quickly. I'm saying to myself, "Who are these people?"
I lucid dream EVERYNIGHT, it's not something I learned how to do, I just do it... but I don't dream reg off the wall dreams, I dream as if I'm in a parallel universe, I'm in my town , I have a job, frineds, I go out every sat night... it's crazy... I dont have a job in real life, or friends , or anything like that lol..I would really love to find a Dr that could scan me and fig out what's going on...I've learned how to recognize and stay in my lucid dreams... everything tastes really good, my body feels really good... I do feel pain...and other things in my body... I go to sleep in my dreams, and wake up in another dream, and play in that dream for a bit...this is so fascinating to learn about!!
ME TOO!!!
I lucid dream as well, it’s so fun! I have also gotten better at waking from a bad/boring dream and telling my brain to stop it and find something better 😂 and then I have a much better dream
I’m very similar, been doing this since I was about 8yo. I can control my dreams, they’re extremely vivid, sometimes I can’t tell if I’m still dreaming once I wake up. I also remember them every night. Also get sleep paralysis a LOT and can bring it on myself cuz I know certain things that create it after having it for so long. Basically, it’s as if I don’t actually get any sleep cuz my brain just doesn’t shut off and I often wake up more tired than when I went to bed cuz my dream was so active and exhausting lol
Me, too! It doesn’t happen all the time, but I have become quite familiar with certain aspects. I even have a house I like to go to. I remember things from last time and they just happen. If things get funny, I even have a place to hide (I can’t always control everything, sometimes nightmares sneak up in me…lol). I wish I could draw. This place is so real to me, I almost feel silly. I watched some show about cutting edge brain scanning technology which is trying to “record” images from dreams. The man actually showed a recording of a dream that had colors moving around…almost vaguely in a humanesque motion. It didn’t look like much, but the implications nearly knocked me out of my chair. Could you IMAGINE someday being able to show someone your crazy ass dream like a YT video?!!
What if, it’s your second life. I’m a parallel universe. When you sleep here, you are awake there and vice vasa. Try to get dates and look at the stock market it could help your life here. That would be so cool
My dreams are usually mission impossible like dreams. Escaping/battling/stabbing zombies, adventures in the city, back in college (unprepared), lose my car, in car or bike that falls apart, strangers turning into people I've known, animals & past pets, my passed away dad levitating in spirit realm, usually twilight, black or gray sky, sometimes raining, tsunamis, black ocean, continuing & repeating dreams, fighting, flying high into outerspace then falling down hard, annoying issues with my mouth & teeth. I feel exhausted when I wake up!
When my daughter was very young she had strep throat over and over again. Every time she had the infection she would have night terrors. Once she had her tonsils out, the strep infection ended, and so did her night terrors. This talk was so interesting, and can see how the brain, or your dreams are trying to tell you something is wrong.
@DalecRussellI know Melissa is smoking hot but tryna rizz her up in UA-cam comments is crazy work 😂
The last part of the broadcast was a very powerful moment. Makes me think about all the people thst died alone during covid. No one was there to comfort them or to hold their hands one last time😢
A crossed over loved one was with them. Some1 always ALWAYS fetches you
We are spiritual beings having a human experience, no one crosses back over alone.
😢
Yes, the same for me. I was in heart ache many times over not allowing loved ones to be by the dying persons side.
We lost 8 family members 2018-2020..some young, most older.
The last funeral before lock down was March 7th. All of our family ( other than the cousin who drowned)...we shared being with family, and one of us or more, were with them as they died.
I looked back at those poor people without anyone, and felt it was the worst of all injustices that government mandated.
Sinful, immoral, shameful and heartbreaking.
Still, my sister and Mom were so fearful via government propaganda, they refused to let anyone see them.
We got there 1 day before Mom died.
Those who grieved without that goodbye have a whole different process to let their loved one go. ❤
Dont worry they (and we) will have the biggest comfort when we will die...from our brains. Our best dream yet...
I LOVE THIS. It’s so wonderful to hear more scientists/doctors speaking about traditionally “mystical” things from a scientific lens. Because there’s such a stigma around beliefs or ideas surrounding anything “magical” within science.
I just figured everyone had dreams knowing they were dreaming while in the dream.But I dream things before they take place in life .. that I knew was a gift .Unfortunately, it is mostly when something unfortunate is about to happen. I have dreamed about someone I haven't seen in a long while..then I see them or they call me .I have many dreams that I know are messages to my awake life .Sometime dreams are so real. I think we could actually be traveling through worm holes to another reality.
Yes, it has been posited that we live many lives simultaneously across time, and time is a persistent illusion, which explains why so many of us dream of the future. It's actually very common, but yes some seem to be more adept than others. If we dream of an alternate life there is a chance to help 'each other' in our soul growth.
@@deniseoverbey6611 I believe that when we leave this earth, there are many more dimensions and lives to live. We don’t really die but cast off a used shell or shed our body in order move forward.
Love how he distinguished vivid dreams from the drug enhanced state, the warning 15 years in advance of brain disease; the last part about death brought me to tears! Really beautiful
Thank you. I kept watching because of this post. Sweet dreams to you.
I was taught while getting my psychology degree that Freud said we dream to answer unresolved issues of the day.
Well, you're not wrong tho because there are many levels of dreams a person can experience, like for example; one level of dream life deals particularly with the biological condition of the body, giving you not just hints of health difficulties but the reasons for them and the ways to circumvent them. Information about the probable future is also given to help you make conscious choices...
So Yeah, Freud was on the right track with that quote because one of the main purposes of dreaming, is to increase man’s pleasure which means to increase the quality of living itself.
@@TheMiddle-Childdepends of the situation that you have in life, when more traumatizing your experiences are, the more you will dream bad things/nightmares
@@Lykkos29 Whatever situations or experiences you might encounter in your "waking life", and yes even those traumatizing and nightmarish experiences aswel presents no real "stumbling blocks" for you at all and to put it in simple terms:-"request the answer to any problem and it will be given, but you must trust yourself and learn to interpret your own dreams. There is no other way to do this except by beginning yourself and working with your own dreams for this will awaken your intuitive abilities and give you the knowledge that you need. 💯
Freud is a discredited cokehead
I dreamed of my late grandfather twice, and on both occasions he was in a gray field with blue skies and it was soooo peaceful, wished I could stay forever 😭
I had a beautiful lucid dream 3 days ago (I often have them). I was on a mountain divided into three peaks(that ) and I met two people dressed in ancient attire like Vikings, carrying bundles of wood on their backs. I was truly awake within the dream and I could touch the rock (I still remember the sensation). At a certain point, I turned to one of them with lighter hair and said, "I feel great here, breathing wonderful air and warmth. I can see night and day together, the sea at the base of the cliffs, and I can hear and see with the same eyes as the eagles circling above. Please don’t make me wake up; I want to stay here."
At this point, he turned, looked me in the eyes, and said, "You want to know the origin of life and things; you have been searching for it for a long time." He took the pickaxe to his right, cracked a piece of rock, took a piece, and said to me, "Look inside here; in it is Chaos and Order, the origin." At that point, a warm, intense light emanated from within it, covering everything. Then I was forcefully transported into a room where black goo was dripping from a mirror. The void that came from it said to me, "It generates the dark side that sticks to the soul and regenerates infinitely." Unfortunately, I then woke up...I recognized that mountain in a video by chance two days later at an event, and it’s in Norway.
Love it!
So glucose is necessary for the brain to properly dream?
Ionce dreamt of some 40 circling vultures flying 200 mts above me and I knew i was dreaming of my school in the highghlands close to Medellin where I used to be a teacher … 7 days later the very same scene occurred in the real life! then I dreamt of a flood and a water channel which really occurred 7
months later in Pereira Colombia!!!!
I have MANY instances of dreaming places only to recognize them in videos a day or two later. It freaks me out and I convince myself that it's not some mystical explanation but more so that I must have watched a similar video before and the algorithm just fed me more of the same that hit that deja vu nerve. But I also wonder if it is a side effect of being in a simulation and some super computer feeding me copies in dream and wake. Thanks for sharing! It's so interesting to know others experience similar things in dreams.
What a beautiful lucid dream. You need to make that the opening paragraph of a fantasy book. It would be amazing
I have been a vivid dreamer all my life. I talk in my sleep and act out dreams. I threw myself out of bed a couple of times. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2022.
I visit new places, meet new people in my dreams. Often, I revisit places that only exist in my dream. Sometimes I wake up and when I go back to sleep next, the dream continues like part 2 of a movie. I wonder if it's another life I'm living in my dreams or if it's a glimpse of an alternate reality.
I too revisit places that only exist in my dreams. Some are so beautiful and realistic it’s hard not to go there.
I don’t remember having a nice dream. I am constantly terrorised by violent nightmares, (school shootings, terrorist attacks, etc) and I am always the victim in those dreams. After one year in therapy I found out that this is because I carry a lot of anger in me, and having intrusive thoughts about something horrible happening to me or people I love. I’m working on it now. 😊 this is a great episode. Thank you
I had anxiety dreams when young. Never nightmares. Dream reveal our emotions to us - life long. Pay attention to how dreams make you feel. They tell us about our daily emotions.
Sending sweet dreams to you.
@@lmiller1413 thank you, sweet soul 🙏🏼
If you eat a heavy food close to bed it might do that to you.
@@ainenilaoire Also strangely enough, eating bananas. I don't recall the active ingredient but it can lead to more vivid dreaming than you might like. I find magnesium at night helps a good night's sleep. Doctors don't study nutritional medicine much and it's a missed opportunity IMO.
I have been extra stressed lately and I had an alien invasion dream last night. It was wild totally movie worthy.
I had an alien invasion dream too the other day. It was AI being the Aliens, controlling all humans. I also thought it was completely movie worthy 🤣 I wish one could record dreams!
Lol could it be all of us who have this dream lately are being told by God, universe, or or own subconscious mind that we must gear up just in case the everyday lives we live are faced with it in reality?
I notice all these comments we all some sort of adhd, cptsd (myself included), depressions or have battled hardship in one way or another or what our culture seems as easy aka “oh turn in a deadline and if you forget it’s your fault for not taking adhd meds” or “oh you were assaulted or robbed at gun point or can’t pay the light bill that’s on you” by our individualistic culture really everywhere right now primarily as a USA resident lol.
@@Less_Or_More_RikaI had a dream inside a dream about 2 teen Alien future human looking, landing and wanting to abduct me.Insanely vivid and interesting dream that i felt it was so true especially when i woke up to find myself that this wasnt a dream and then i woke up again lol.
For many years I had a serious, undiagnosed heart problem. Several times a week. I would dream I was trying to call the doctor or the rescue squad. I kept getting the number wrong, etc and was never able to make contact. Years later when I got a diagnosis, I realized my brain knew what was happening and was trying to get my attention.
It’s God
The subconscious has a very difficult time communicating with us but if we learn to see the signs we can get better and better at listening to it.
@@dream-analysisUKour subconscious is not intelligent but only by what we feed it. The only answer Is God deposits his words to us in parables that’s why most dreams need decoded in the same way.
@@Jacob96wv For the sake of this conversation, I prefer to use the word unconscious, as far as I understand it, the unconscious is everything thing we don't know, an even things that we can't even conceive that we don't know, and that might well include 'God' although the G word is not something that sits well with me, as many different faith groups apply many different meanings to to their particular version of God. Where I feel we have common ground is,: SOME of our dreams contain wisdom from a deeper intelligence that has our back. If you want to call it God you can, but personally I feel this source of intelligence is far more mysterious than what people tend to pin on their version of God. The very nature of the unconscious is mystery and there is no possible way to intellectually understand it.
@@dream-analysisUK if i told you a hundred things you could prove true with evidence then i told you a hundred things you could not prove. Would you trust me on the things you could not prove since i didn’t have a reputation of lieing to you? That’s what God did with the Bible. It’s hitstorically and locationally accurate . That’s why i trust his intelligence . I’ve also experienced him first hand in telling me things or showing me things in dreams and it comes to pass. His name is Jesus. “For God speaketh once, Yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction,”
Job 33:14-16 KJV
For nine months after fleeing from DV into an even more horrific situation, I couldn't sleep and it nearly killed me. Fortunately, I was able to document all of it and I'm trying to produce a book on my experiences... it's tough, since I'm still recovering almost six years after escaping the shelter. I ONLY JUST started recalling my dreams again... about six months ago. I saw it as a sign that my health was returning.
Sorry what is DV?
@@Hannabarberajthink of a romantic relationship where your partner hits you.
Domestic Violence
@@trinleywangmo happy for you that you escaped!
I've dreamed about maths, physics, etc. All my life, but I remembered one time, when i was 20 years old, at university, when i went to sleep after failing to solve a differential equation. I dreamed about the problem and solved it in my dream, i woke up and did it on paper and it worked!! That has been one of the moat surreal experiences with my dreams.
"Epic/Excessive dreaming". THANK YOU for giving my vivid, multiple dreams per night a diagnosis. I wake up more tired than before I went to sleep. A lot of times I look at the time during waking hours and during dreams to confirm if I'm awake or dreaming.
I really admire something he mentioned. It was the discussion about the Non-REM sleep transition, or Hypnagogic time, and the routine to help transition better and remember dreams... He mentioned having the "luxury of having a bed.* Someone with his success and the intense career he has to also take time to be aware that it's 100% a blessing to sleep in a bed. That sentence he said speaks a lot. Not many people I listen to that have his knowledge, career, ect also view things like. Also, this video is awesome and I'm going to look for the first book along with this one, I'm in school for psychiatry Neuro-biology, still got a long ways to go😅 but this is mind blowing info that's motivating
That’s a very intelligent observation from you and him…❤
Such a lovely observation. Shows he is an empath.
I’m so jealous. Studying neurobiology must be so incredible. Good luck🙂
My dreams are truly frightening and how real they feel.
Trying journaling your dreams. It exposes them, and they lose their intensity. Your conscious mind will help the subconscious process them. ❤
My family has told me my entire life that I need to keep a dream journal and write a book. My dreams are so real to me that I can't tell I'm dreaming. I've woken up feeling lost as if I am in the wrong house or I recognize the house but it doesn't seem like mine. I've also had dreams so detailed and real I have talked about it years later thinking it's a legit memory. It's insane the way I dream.
This is so interesting. Are you a very creative person?
@@Ann-MD I very much am and musicly too.
Like Dr Chatterjee, Dr Jandial is very humble. He keeps saying he is open to learning and accepts other people's opinions. In many cultures, dreams are important components of navigating life and in some cultures there are scholars for interpreting dreams. It is fascinating. New scientific discoveries only want to make me study religions in depth and get closer to God.
So true. Never thought about it until now ... Fascinating 😊
As a child , I taught myself to lucid dream…. I loved it. Adult me smokes 🍃, so I don’t dream as much. When I do , I can still lucid dream …it’s amazing.
I have also taught myself how to lucid dream. 😀
I think you are talking about cannabis-me too. Rarely remember my dreams if I’m dreaming. That’s probably the biggest negative. When i take a break, rebound.
@@twinkletoes1507 Yepp , that’s exactly what I’m talking about.
My experience is the same , tolerance break dreams so much more vivid and cohesive. I always can remember them for longer.
@@taylorhenderson7674have you had sleep paralysis or astral projections?
@@Lykkos29 I’ve had sleep paralysis as a teen/young adult. The more I lucid dream, the more i would get night terrors. That usually end with me forcing myself awake but my body not being able to move…
I do not experience either (lucid dreaming or night terrors) often anymore because of the use of cannabis. Weed makes you dream less vividly…. On tolerance breaks I can lucid dream but nothing compares to my childhood/teen years.
I've never seen a man with such striking looks...
Wow.
Now I'm going to listen to him.
Both, looks and voice 😊
He's a dream 😂
Smokin'!
You only see brain surgeons that look like that on soap operas !!!!
Lol 😂
Listening to this trying to sleep
I'm a data scientist and often if I can't find a solution to a problem at work, I will dream all night long about attempting to solve the problem. I will often come up with my best solutions that way!
Powerful intuition
I’m sick of Anxiety dreams waking me up in a state of panic where adrenaline is rushing through my body 🤯
Overactive amygdala from trauma
@@betsyny1I know but who hasn’t had some kind of trauma in life
i like the rush
I quit horror movies, intense thrillers, violence or mind warping stuff. Have you tried listening to something calm that you already know? I use Audible because I can turn the speed of speech down slower. It helps 🙂
@@jessegee179 I can’t watch loud or violent films, I hate the noise and I don’t watch news, I’d happily sell my house to buy a field and live in a caravan 🙂
I often start dreaming right after falling asleep. I can get the wildest dream during a 10 min nap. It's great.
Also, I don't remember having many nightmares. I can recall maybe 1 or 2. But I remember many great, very vivid and realistic dreams.
Another interesting thing is that I've been having a very realistic dream my entire life where I'm being chased by people (police/paparazzi, fans, etc). It kind of feels like I'm famous, but I'm still trying to figure out who I am in that dream. The older I get, the more answers I get about the whole story. It's like living a 2nd life in that dream, but it unfolds slowly like in a movie.
I love playing with dreams and finding "hacks" to get more vivid dreams. I found that if I take a nap between 16:00 and 19:00, I get the wildest, most realistic dreams. It gets to the point where I wake up thinking, "What did just happen?" and it feels like it actually happened.
My theory is that you are the most relaxed at that time because it's too early to "worry" about the next day (work etc) so my brain is 100% relaxed and that allows it to go wild with my imagination/dreaming.
Dreams are fascinating
A good friend lives a second life in his dreams. He's in his 60s & this has gone on for decades. Also he can fall asleep & go into this dream state in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately it's very disturbing for him, but fascinating all the same.
normal people do not enter REM until around 90 minutes. If you are dreaming this fast and can do it during a nap then you may have narcolepsy.
That time frame fits for me too. It's weird because I wake up not knowing where I am because of the dream. I don't get the same when I nap between 1300 and 1500.
That’s more like me
I once solved a math problem in a dream. Another time I repaired a lamp in my house according to a dream ... it turned out to be correct.The dream was very clear and showed me what was wrong with the lamp.
I find that I solve most my health problems and other problems in my sleep. There will be a voice telling me exactly what to do in my dream to solve my issue. 100% of the time it is right!
I get dreams like this too. Maybe we have similar personalities or something.
This conversation is awesome! So refreshing to be able to watch two very intelligent people discuss a topic that can expand its understanding without acting like we got it all figured out. Thank you! I wish others follow your lead to have discussions instead of swapping data points acting like the experts.
I have had ‘ dreams ‘ which were so vivid, some lucid, that, to this day, I do not know, if these had been dreams or ‘a real happening’, that I could have ‘lived’ in a different or ‘parallel life ‘
I dream both in B/W and colour ( Black and white dreams are usually more artistically, hauntingly beautiful )
I have had night terrors for years. The last year they were happening every night. I would dream I was going to die and wake up screaming. My dr sent me for a sleep study. Turns out I have severe sleep apnea. I have been on the CPAP for over two months and have not had a single night terror since.
I really respect someone who actually shows how grateful he is that he has the some privileges that others don't he is always thankful. He constantly recognizes these wonderful lil things in life we all take advantage of.
I will try everyday to repeat my blessing and being thankful for everything
I paint the people I meet in my dreams. And all the dreams I have are very positive and uplifting
so, your dreamworld is just like facebook. fascinating.
You may some time meet the people you've painted❤❤❤❤
I'd love to see you work. That's beautiful. :)
My canvas would be blank…😂
@@amber588same!
I had a dream about my mother where she was not fully clothed. She was in my backyard. She was on the ground sitting on her side… it was so vivid I could not shake it off. I took FMLA and traveled from Georgia to her in California. This was around the time of Covid. As soon as I set foot in her home, I realized that my dream was a true message. Few weeks later she had to have surgery for colon cancer. All praise be to God, it has been almost five years now, she made it through. I have never acted on a dream prior to that.
I dream every night and can recall my dreams back to my husband the following day. Some dreams are so vivid I can recall the whole dream, at others times it’s more snippets of the dream and the recall expands over the next days/weeks. I also dream things that happen in the future.. Sometimes it takes years for it to manifest.
Yes :).
Happens every day, even during a quick unexpected powernap
I'm 66, almost 67. I had vivid dreaming much more when I was younger. I have had two dreams that were very unlikely, come true. I have awakened during a particularly good dream and decided I wanted to go back into it and did. I dreamed several times being a flying being, running down a runway, flapped my arms, and took off. The overall theme of most of my dreaming is searching for something via various modes of travel, looking for something, or running from someone with evil intent. Few nightmares. Very strange indeed.
What i found personally interesting in myself is that when i am in a highly inspirational creative phase (arts) i can not "math" ,,vand sometimes (sculpture, painting) i cant speak coherently and forget what word we use for things ...
I have noticed how when I wake up the first thing I'm conscious of is a piece of music, different every morning, I wonder how many other people have this experience?
ME! I'm here, too! So glad to meet you! I pretty much know what frame of mind I'll be in for the day by the music that plays in my head upon waking.
I have been waking up with a different song almost every morning! It becomes a conversation point
I have it sometimes. It’s pleasant.
Same here. I'm a songwriter and most of my songs come from dreams.
Sure! I am a musician, though, so it's an important part of my life. I also dream synesthetically where I can see music, read and understand numbers, see colors associated with numbers or music, etc. I am always so happy realizing oh! I get it! But I wake up and the ability and understanding is gone.
I have remembered my dreams since I was 3 years old. I Remember then every night. Whenever i close my eyes I dream.
Same
But not my dreams are nightmares
I used to fear sleeping
That is incredible....
Whenever I’m struggling to make a decision or come up with a solution I turn it over to my subconscious and stop thinking about it. Sure enough, within a few days, I have a dream that provides the perfect answer.
@@Hoots522 I do this too
How you turn into subconscious mind?
I usually do not remember my dreams.
When I was a young child, I had a recurring nightmare. I recall that one.
One dream I will not forget was when I composed a symphony in the dream. I love music, but I am no composer. Yet it was beautiful, and the feeling was amazing.
I would suggest reviewing the studies of the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) is a research unit within the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences a University of Virginia’s School of Medicine for possible explanations for your dreams.
@@fieldweber9943 Thank you for the suggestion!
I want a dream like that. Sounds amazing.
I have heard symphonies in my dreams. Not recently tho.
@@fieldweber9943😢
Two things popped into my mind when the doctor mentions how people began dreaming more in color once color tv came out. The book, THE GIVER, which is also in movie form, a novel which shows about learning to see color (evolving beyond the hive mind). Also the film PLEASANTVILLE, which also begins in B&W, but slowly introduces color. Both are fascinating stories.
Excellent point and incredible connection. I thought that was a fascinating bit of information, too.
I'm certain people dreamed in colour before film was invented 🙄
What an incredibly insightful discussion on dreams! Dr. Rahul Jandial's expertise truly shines through as he explores the profound connections between dreaming and brain health. Understanding that dreams offer us a window into our subconscious is fascinating. Thank you, Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, for bringing such thought-provoking topics to your podcast. Looking forward to more enlightening episodes!
Some dreams, from a decade or even 2 decades ago, sometimes emerge while I'm awake. The feelings those dreams evoked, emerge with the recollection. These aren't necessarily the dreams I wrote down. Anyone? Thank you, good doctors. I love this podcast!
That happens to me too. It doesn't feel like deja vu. It feels different than that.
Yes.
This assertion has been around for many, many years, that we sleep to dream. It is grand that this person lives during a time when the instruments are available to actually obtain data for the review and discussion of this topic. Thank you for this video.
The idea that kids have more nightmares than adults - and often blur them with reality - may explain my lifelong insomnia. After watching this, I lay in bed thinking about it, aware of a feeling of anxiety I must have suppressed. I deal with anxiety using the approach of a therapy called AEDP. It sees anxiety as a block on deeper emotions such as rage, grief, disgust etc. but also sometimes joy, love etc. You ask yourself if you can set the anxiety aside to experience the deeper feeling and if you're willing, you wait for the feeling to come in the body, without rushing to name it. I found rage and let myself experience it, while also imagining being a little boy and needing help with all this, reassuring him that the dreams weren't real and most would not be nightmares. I went into a deep, sweet sleep.
As a dreamworker in SoCal I absolutely love this interview. This provides a much larger perspective on the intelligence of dreams. Thank you!
A brother of my first boyfriend, who was also one of my brother's good friends recently died. I didn't know him, only thru my b/f. A couple days after i heard of his passing, he came to me in a dream. I called him up, why i don't know, and he was crying. He told me he was upset everyone forgot his birthday. 😢
It's sad if the only thing people make notice of is the day you left this world, not the day you began this life. A birthday confirms a life. A death date only confirms you don't exist.
Why don't you celebrate his birthday? You can still do that. Even if you do it alone. 🙂
@@yourtransformationgenieI did this for my mama,
I feel like we can’t figure out why we dream or what exactly their function is because there’s so many large contradictions between the awake brain and the sleeping brain. So the way our waking brain tries to understand it isn’t working because you’ll always have slightly more logical thinking than creative. The beginning of this interview talked so much about logic vs creativity, waking vs sleeping, divergent vs convergent. It almost feels or seems like we are not meant to know what their function is. Or simply because the way our brains function, and we don’t have “readily available” access to our sleeping brain, we physically and mentally cannot draw connections and conclusions. And the answer lies in understanding what our brain is using in all stages of sleep or somewhere in the middle of awake and asleep. Or maybe there is more information about dreams to be found in more research of people who can choose to lucid dream or people who experience sleep paralysis or narcolepsy. Like learning what the “dysfunctional dreams” are because they have more commonalities. And using process of elimination to understand what “typical dreaming” is in a more general sense.
I propose that a falling dream can represent a lack of complete synaptic response. I only say this because my father who suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s in his mid 40’s would mention that he had a repetitive dream that he was falling and never hit the ground
Wow, that makes perfect, logical sense! I hope these doctors see your comment. It would be fascinating to hear their thoughts on it 😊
I had a dream about falling and hit the ground.And I didn't tie despite the myth.
I have had falling dreams since I was a small child and I'm old and still have them on occasion. And I have never met someone who hasn't had that same kind of dream before.
I used to dream nightly then my father died suddenly (this was twenty years a go) I quit remembering my dreams. I maybe only remember one or two a year. I wonder why?
This is exactly what I was looking for. I haven't had a vivid falling dream in a while. But I used to dream I fell right through the mattress. Freaky 😮😮
When I was in junior high and taking typing, I typed in my dreams night after night, driving me crazy. Ever since I have been an excellent typer.
Typist 😂
I totally believe you. I used to dream speaking French and German. I would literally speak them so well lol at that time I was doing translations in both those languages. Now that I’m interested in fashion I find myself dreaming of outfits and different looks it’s crazy lol
This happens every time I learn things.
When I play solitaire I dream about numbers falling from large to small. It usually happens early in the night before the “story” dreams start.
Oh my gosh! I'm not the only one! My brain was typing 24 hours a day. 56 and still typing like a maniac, LOL!
I fell asleep listening to this podcast, weaving it into my dreams … and in my dream I was still watching a video about how I should listen to my dreams they will tell me the truth, and in the video appeared my ex who was a diagnosed narcissist and he told me “believe what dreams tell you- I am a narcissist” and then the new guy I’m talking to came in the video and he said “I am also a narcissist and you know it” and I woke up and I knew it was true.
I had dreams about people dying and committed suicide which then did it exactly how I dreamt it. I never saw it as something esoterical or spiritual, I simply think that my brain is like a computer that filters out situations and I might not consciously be aware of something but my brain is doing the math, the algorithm then shows me in my dream how likely it is something will happen. It takes in small information and weaves it together. As a child I always was lucid dreaming. To go to another dream or to wake up, I had to close my eyes in my dreams. I would be sucked into a tunnel and if I opened them quicker I woke up in a new dream, if I waited a bit longer until the end of the tunnel and then opened my eyes I was awake. Sometimes I have beautiful and epic dreams. Sometimes they are scary but reach me something, and sometimes I feel they are just there to comfort me or to solve a problem I have. I love them.
I used to study in my sleep and work math problems. I've gone to bed after trying and failing at a math problem and woke up with the answer. I'm usually in an empty lecture hall with a big green chalkboard and a bunch of chalk or I'm in a huge empty library with a really nice notebook and a smooth pen.
I also read and do maths in my dream. I can write too and sometimes I visit world where languages are symbols and I can understand it. It’s so cool. I dream every night and remember 97% of my dreams since I was like 8yrs old. Sometimes I can actually remember how my dreams start or choose scenarios in my dream void scape.
When I was around 10, we had fireworks, one of them wouldn’t light that night I dreamed of how to reconfigure the wick. And it worked, so I do think that the brain helps us to problem solve.
Ever heard the expression “Sleep on it?” When you can’t solve a problem?
I can dream 2 to 3 dreams a night, I believe it relates to the same thing that is trying to make it clear to us, just in different ways..... I truly believe it's a spiritual language, it's trying to tell us things or direct us... I live by the guidance of my dreams.. It's real.. I believe it's symbolic, not literal. That is my experiences...
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Fascinating. I would love to know what new-born babies dream. They definitely do dream because you can see the REM behind their delicate eyelids. But if they have only seen the inside of a womb and a slice of a hospital room, what sort of images do they have? Sensory only? Emotional only? Colours or just reddish shades?
Like when they laugh in their sleep
Such a refreshing conversation. You both are well spoken, respectful and intelligent. Thanks!
I could listen to this man all day, wish it was longer, fascinating subject.
Me too!
I dream every night several times , i can get up go to the bathroom , back into bed and carry on where i left off like a soap opera , and the day after as soon as i put my head on the pillow i remember my dream from the night before .
I'm the exact same! literally as soon as i lie down to sleep at night i get flashbacks of my dreams from the night before, even if i completely forgot them during the day. Crazy.
This is a fantastic ability. Do you keep a Dream Diary? You would do well processing your dreams and pulling out wisdom from the soul.
I love that the medical profession is finally having discussions around these topics, but for many many years people have come into their lives already knowing all this, teaching all this without fancy scans and tests. We don’t need validation from academia who has for centuries burned people at the stake for this wisdom. These credentials no longer impress me and haven’t for some time now
It's not the "credentials" that are impressive. I've been waiting a long time for East (mind) to meet West (mind) in a serious way. I am certainly apprehensive about how these newly created constructs will be applied. But for now, I'm enjoying the new mix.
I love this. I concur, as a behavioral and mental health care practitioner, I will say that EMDR is exactly what happens during the dreaming or sleep process. It heals us, recharges us, and answers our most critical questions about ourselves as human; spiritual beings. Awake is the secondary consciousness, as opposed to sleep, EMDR, or even certain psychoactive chemicals that are or induce the primal consciousness - where we can actively remedy our whole being.
After I did a silent meditation retreat, my dreams were so insanely vivid and colorful! Amazing this magic!
This man is the reason I’ve chosen medicine as my path in life!
I could hear him talk for hours!
It’s interesting to think that maybe people who struggle with ptsd have nightmares reliving the traumatic experience as a way for the brain to cope, the brain using it as a sort of exposure therapy…
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I fell asleep listening to this, and became a part of the dialogue. My hypothesis (from the dream) is that dreams are scripted before we sleep and need to play out, hence the sleep pressure to get computer time. Also, the observer in the dream is not the writer, explaining the frequent elements of surprise.
I wrote most of my term papers while in college during sleep. All A’s. 😊
What do you mean by writing during sleep? I’m curious
@@Prettywins I don’t know how it works - I would dream about the content of papers I was working on, wake up, go straight to a word processor (I’m old) and type up what I had composed in my dreams. I seemed to have insights during sleep that stayed with me when I awoke.
I think many writers say the best time to write is in the morning. More accurately, maybe they should say, "The best time to write is after sleeping."
Consciousness does not end when the body dies. I have received clear messages from my sister 4 and 10 year after she committed suicide forty years ago. When my ex-husband died in 2015 he contacted me for months and shared many insights on his past life, how it was to die and why he could not be healed from the cancer he had died from. I journaled my experiences as it felt meaningful and I published them in a book. I am told it is important to share these things to raise awakening of the cosmic laws that govern live. The more we know these laws, the more we can give meaning and depth to our life.
You've got quite the imagination
@@to2on That is what i would have thought, had it happened to someone else😇. However after more than 35 years of experience with these fenomenen and getting these messages in writing with the use of a pendulum, I am convinced it is my 'antenna' for layers of consciousness we usually are not aware of. Opens doors of perception🙂. Learned to communicate in this way from wise old lady who had thirty years of experience, before she died two years later aged 92. The very beautiful and wise messages she received have guided me towards exploring this. I myself feel blessed by the insights I have received since then too. There is more between heaven and earth than we are aware of.
After my adult daughter with severe autoimmune issues ate shrimp with that preservative in it has had neurological and histamine issues that have not been resolved, three weeks after the ingestion. She had fought back from autoimmune encephalitis, and this preservative has created a setback in her recovery. Thanks for your video.