Understanding and Using Dreams to Learn and to Forget

Brilliant ❤

Heyyyy Costello is great, shame on the haters of Costello's noises haha

I m German and i live in Swizzerland right now, but that does not keep me from listening to this most interestig and for not-scients good and clear to understand very well made podcast.

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I usualy do that during my workout in the early quiet morning in the gym.

What a fantastic episode. I learned so much, thank you very much.

And I love hearing the dog in the background.

I didn't Mackenzie for a scam record like I'm really busy but I can't wait to see how it runshe's gonna come out and see she's out of rush come out for the coming girl lovely beautiful makai farted on a chicken fart fart deal Wacker daily Wacker

Btw, the vast majority of EMDR therapists i know have dispensed with eye movements at all, in favor of hand tappers, binaural beats etc, which Dr. Gottman has said negates Shapiro's theories

My questions relates to mental illness and personality disorders. In essence, what is the relation between the two (personality disorders and dreaming). I have been reading Mark Solms and his book on consciousness and his thesis on dreaming, hence this interrelation became quite interesting to me. I am referencing the intersection of dream state, hallucinations and delusions and, in addition, even being under the influence of psychedelic substances. This also related to something I am working on academically (rock art, shamanism, anthropological theories on dreaming which is a huge thing within indigenous communities, consciousness and its development; the part that relates to personality disorders comes from personal life).

I'm grateful to you sir ❤

i think you’re funny

Hello, thanks for this information! I have a question about your set of supplements, i see there are both Zink Picolinate 15mg and 30mg, do you use both in the same period, or the dose changed in some moment?

❤🎉 I finally got to see Costello!! He appeared to be in his slow wave sleep cycle 🐶.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:

Sleep Cycles: Sleep consists of 90-minute cycles that contain different stages like slow-wave sleep and REM sleep. Slow-wave sleep occurs mostly in the early part of the night and is essential for motor learning and the learning of specific details.
Slow-Wave Sleep: Slow-wave sleep is marked by low acetylcholine, resulting in a lack of focus, and an abundance of serotonin, creating feelings of bliss and stillness.
REM Sleep: Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep occurs throughout the night, with more happening toward morning. It features paralysis of the body, erratic eye movements, and a lack of norepinephrine and serotonin. This allows for hallucinatory experiences without fear and anxiety.
Emotional Processing: REM sleep dissociates emotionally laden events, enabling us to adjust our emotional responses to challenging experiences, such as social anxiety or nightmares.
Nightmares: Nightmares occur during REM sleep, but they are a result of the brain trying to process and resolve emotionally charged events.
Importance of REM Sleep: REM sleep helps process and integrate emotions, making it an essential part of our sleep cycle.
Lucid Dreaming: Lucid dreaming is the experience of being aware that you're dreaming, and it can allow you to direct your dream activities.
Motor Learning: Slow-wave sleep, occurring in the early part of the night, is crucial for motor learning, which can be important for various activities, from sports to learning to play musical instruments.
REM Sleep and EMDR: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapy designed to suppress the amygdala, reducing emotional responses when recounting experiences. It bears similarities to REM sleep.
The Role of REM Sleep: REM sleep helps attach emotions to experiences and ensures that emotions are appropriately linked. It can also help unlearn intense emotional responses, making it a critical component of sleep.
Mastering Sleep: Consistency in sleep duration is more important than simply getting more sleep. Regular sleep patterns, even with fewer hours, are more beneficial for learning and emotional well-being.
Lucid Dreaming: Lucid dreaming can be induced by setting cues, like looking at a particular image or phrase before sleep. This can help you gain control over your dreams.
Theory of Mind and Dreams: Dreams involving theory of mind, where you consider the emotions or motivations of others, tend to happen during REM sleep. Slow wave sleep is more related to motor learning and specific details.
Drinking Alcohol and REM Sleep: Consuming alcohol or THC disrupts the pattern of REM and slow wave sleep, reducing the depth and quality of sleep.
Resistance Exercise: Engaging in resistance exercise can increase the percentage of slow wave sleep without disrupting the other components of sleep.
Neuroplasticity: The next topic will be neuroplasticity, which is the brain's ability to change itself in response to experiences, and it will be discussed in upcoming episodes.
The true potential of what we can know, do, and say in life is determined by the limits of neuroplasticity.
Upcoming topics in the podcast will explore learning and childhood, learning in adulthood, sensory plasticity, motor plasticity, sensory-motor integration, language acquisition, emotional acquisition, adult attachment styles related to early life attachment, and how to change attachment styles.
The podcast will also discuss supplements, chemicals, machines, and devices that can assist in speeding up the plasticity process.
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A correction was made regarding the cells responsible for producing testosterone, which is made by the leydig cells of the testes, not the sertoli cells.
Another correction was made regarding the typical average body temperature, which is approximately 98.6°F, not 96.8°F.

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I had over several months every night nightmares and they always happened in the last 3 or 4 hours of sleep - REM sleep, right? - so it contradicts what Andrew says about slow wave sleep phase for nightmeares. Just saying...
Other than that: great podcast as usual :-)

Animals next

I genuinely love this guy, Huberman. Thank you

Check out the reverend Spooner, he was well known for swapping the beginnings of consecutive words, with great comic effect. (Spoonerisms)

Bait and switch? Nothing about dreams!

People are so entitled, complaining about the dog snoring.

My FORMULA to have more REM sleep: If you feel that you have few REM sleep, which is insufficient, just try to sleep beyond your normal sleep time ( if you can ). For example, if you sleep for 6 hours normally, and wake up, don't get out of bed. Just stay at the bed and sleep more and more. Force a second sleep. REM sleep tend to happens more extensively at the end of the sleep cycles. So, when you sleep beyond your normal time, you almost fall in REM sleep instantaneously. You start to dream a lot. You end up sleeping for 10 hours a day. Obviously, you don't need to do that every single day. You will feel amazing and ready. Another tip: Benzodizepines tend to reduce REM sleep. Be careful with any medicines, tea, don't drink much water before sleeping, and always use that army relaxing technique before sleeping ( relaxing each part of the body and telling yourself to have a wonderful sleep night ). 🎉🎉❤

⚠️ I noticed along my life, that I feel more restored in the following day, when I get more deep sleep, more slow waves sleep. It's when we feel there's a complete shutdown, with apparently no or few dreams. When we sleep so deep that we wake up without knowing even where we are, it's like having slept for a thousand years. This happens when I go on vacation to a high foggy mountain, sleep on early hours, and wake up with the birds, at sunrise. It's marvelous. Few times in my life I slept so well. I feel brand new on the other day. It's a sleep night that values for hundreds others that I sleep at the big city. 🎉🎉❤

I have the weirdest yet realistic dreams. Btw if after all the information of which you are knowledgeable and well versed in those are the only two mistakes or reversed numbers then..... okay then.

not to mention how my English improves 😊

There is a very known psychological fact that our subconcious mind does not differentiate between reality and imagination. Couldn’t it be a possible reason of unexpected harmonal changes in response to nightmares in REM sleep?

Amazing, outstanding. Bless you doctor for imparting such precise knowledge about everyday stuff which we are completely unaware.

I have known 2 people who state that they have never remembered a dream in their entire lives. I notice that both of these people have a lot of narcissistic traits, difficulty with emotions, difficulty with social skills, and difficulty with communication. Is it really possible to never remember a dream. Could that correlate with social and personality issues?

can you help us understand sleep paralisis?

I have a theory that the type of people that watch such content are of a higher level of sophistication and civilization thus that might be a factor as it relates to your opinion? Lol

Thanks again Doc!

Does anyone know what`s the meaning of Bismal that Andrew Huberman said ? I couldn`t find it`s meaning on Google.

Sir if you where an 👽 I would still have your back 💯

This was the first video that introduced me to Andrew Huberman. I had a crazy funny dream that brought me back here. I was listening to one other podcast with Lex and I fell asleep on it, he and the host used the word "literally" a lot in the podcast. In my dream, me and my friends were attending a talk and we would stand up to say something to whoever was in front and we kept joking say "Liruleli" to the guy in our sentences. I woke up, the podcast was on and they spoke saying "literally"... Now I'm aware that I have very childish friends and I'm a childish person.

The phenomena where people tell everyone about their dreams especially when intense and impactful may be to do with aspects of social-emotional cognition due to the functions of areas of the frontal Gyrus and their inclusion in the Default Mode Network, would you think this could be in any way correct or indicative of why?

I find myself running around screaming and being affraid of something every night. Sometimes up to five times. Often I have no idea the next day. Or I do not recognize everyday objects staring at them wondering what the fuck they are supposed to be. Some mornings I find the laptop opened with a failed attemp to log into email etc. I need to ask for separate bedrooms everywhere. Not speaking about constantly feeling exhausted. Simply a funny life! :)

This channel is so educational! I enjoyed listening and learning and I feel like I'm back being a student.

Also, it's by the by but everytime I listen to you, I remember Thomas Frank from College Info Geek.

I cant believe the topic of not being able to dream/remember dreams wasnt touched.

Thank you !

❓❓ ❓ The testosterone is made in the testes in men then, where does it come from in women?

Interesting about REM sleep. So explain to me how I can have a dream where I am in a panic, screaming and crying, to protect my children to the point I get up and almost double fisted slug my husband..waking up only as my fists are bearning down on him. Then, I am an emotional wreck for hours afterwards. Crying and distraught for hours. This same dream scenario would happen, sans the fist action, EVERY NIGHT for 3+ decades. I finally got it to stop, when one night I had a different dream, where I realized the trauma these dreams were about underneath the subjects--my children, was NOT MY FAULT.

Im crying while listening to this.. i have narcolepsy with cataplexy.. won't explain what that is.. but people who know what that is, they know why im crying...

I can’t thank you enough for sharing all of this in a digestible way, and helping me finally make more sense of some intense experiences I’ve had. My mother has paranoid schizophrenia and I worry I might also, I feel like I have a delicate psyche, and I can identify how recreational drugs (specifically the cleansing phase, a few weeks into quitting them) and emotionally heightened states have induced some profoundly intense experiences. Understanding it better prevents delusions of grandeur. And helps me realize the importance of staying drug free. For better or worse I do not trust others to diagnose me or prescribe me with medication for my brain, not after I’ve seen how it affects my mom. Thank you for helping me take control of my life.

I just love you. 😊 your videos are helping so many of us learn to utilize our bodies and minds natural tools. That's the technology we as a society should be investing in! Plus, I love that you mention the dog snoring and that he's not going anywhere to appease other people. I love it. ❤

so funny & true

Thank you once again Andrew, from Buenos Aires.

With THC degrading the quality of sleep, what time frame would be needed to restore normal sleep patterns after consuming THC?

According to an experiment, the outside factor like sun light, moon light or torch light induced different dreams among the participants..

Amazing, keep it up.❤

I’ve been a Lucid Dreamer since about the age of nine. I learned leathery as a self-defense against nightmares. I went on to become a LD coach and authored a few How-To books in it.

Dreams are largely the consolidation of skills. The interesting thing I’ve noticed about LD is that it’s a skill that’s consolidated at a site where skills are consolidated (e.g., REM sleep).

Something I’ve noticed also is that intense LD causes me to need at least 12-13 hours of sleep. At age 14, I was sent to a sleep clinic and my brainwaves were monitored while I slept. It was quite an adventure for me!

I was wondering, Dr. Huberman, if you might speak to a possible reason for why intense LD would necessitate longer hours spent asleep. Thanks in advance!

PS: My goal is to one day be invited to your podcast and discuss my journey and my own offering to the LD community.

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i disagree with them, i think you're funny. And you're definitely not an alien right ?

My trauma destroy my dreams
I get 2 or 3 bad dreams about my trauma almost every night