Understanding and Using Dreams to Learn and to Forget | Episode 5

This episode is all about the two major kinds of dreams and the sorts of learning and unlearning they are used for. I discuss REM-associated dreams that control emotional learning and their similarity to various trauma treatments such as ketamine and EMDR. I also discuss Non-REM dreams and their role in motor learning and learning of detailed, non-emotionally-laden information. I relate this to science-backed tools for accessing more of the types of sleep and learning people may want. Other topics are listed in the time stamps below.

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Timestamps below.

00:00 Introduction

03:00 The Dream Mask

06:00 Cycling Sleep

08:10 Chemical Cocktails of Sleep

13:00 Motor Learning

16:30 High Performance with Less Sleep

17:45 Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

20:30 Paralysis & Hallucinations

23:35 Nightmares

24:45 When REM & Waking Collide

25:00 Sleeping While Awake

26:45 Alien Abductions

29:00 Irritability

30:00 Sleep to Delete

32:25 Creating Meaning

34:10 Adults Acting Like Children

36:20 Trauma & REM

37:15 EMDR

39:10 Demo

44:25 Ketamine / PCP

45:45 Soup, Explosions, & NMDA

48:55 Self Therapy

50:30 Note About Hormones

51:40 Measuring REM / SWS

53:15 Sleep Consistency

56:00 Bed Wetting

58:00 Serotonin

59:00 Increasing SWS

59:50 Lucidity

1:02:15 Booze / Weed

1:03:50 Scripting Dreams

1:04:35 Theory of Mind

1:07:55 Synthesis

1:10:00 Intermittent Sleep Deprivation

1:11:10 Snoring Disclaimer

1:11:40 New Topic

1:15:50 Corrections

1:17:25 Closing Remarks

As always, thank you for your interest in science!

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