Understand and Use Dreams to Learn and Forget
Feb 01, 21 | 01:17:49
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
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:30 Sponsors: AG1, LMNT & Waking Up
00:03:00 The Dream Mask
00:06:00 Cycling Sleep
00:08:10 Chemical Cocktails of Sleep
00:13:00 Motor Learning
00:16:30 High Performance with Less Sleep
00:17:45 Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
00:20:30 Paralysis & Hallucinations
00:23:35 Nightmares
00:24:45 When REM & Waking Collide
00:25:00 Sleeping While Awake
00:26:45 Alien Abductions
00:29:00 Irritability
00:30:00 Sleep to Delete
00:32:25 Creating Meaning
00:34:10 Adults Acting Like Children
00:36:20 Trauma & REM
00:37:15 EMDR
00:39:10 Demo
00:44:25 Ketamine / PCP
00:45:45 Soup, Explosions, & NMDA
00:48:55 Self Therapy
00:50:30 Note About Hormones
00:51:40 Measuring REM / SWS
00:53:15 Sleep Consistency
00:56:00 Bed Wetting
00:58:00 Serotonin
00:59:00 Increasing SWS
00:59:50 Lucidity
01:02:15 Booze / Weed
01:03:50 Scripting Dreams
01:04:35 Theory of Mind
01:07:55 Synthesis
01:10:00 Intermittent Sleep Deprivation
01:11:10 Snoring Disclaimer
01:11:40 New Topic
01:15:50 Corrections
01:17:25 Closing Remarks