Dr Rahul Jandial | The New Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams

The bestselling neurosurgeon and neuroscientist returns to How To Academy to share the secrets of the sleeping brain and explore the astonishing power of dreams to improve our waking lives.
What does your sleeping brain reveal about your waking life? Do we sleep in order to dream? Dreams are a source of mystery. They have changed the course of individual lives and the world, spurring business deals, inspiring art and scientific breakthroughs, triggering military invasions and mental breakdowns. Yet the source of dreams is not mysterious. They are the product of an extraordinary transformation that occurs in the brain each night when we sleep.
The bestselling neurosurgeon Rahul Jandial will delve into the science of the dreaming brain and show the extraordinary impact of dreams upon on waking lives.

[@soulmate702000]

I had a recurring nightmare as a kid where the grim reaper would approach me always with the words "I am the devil of darkness" & it scared the life out of me every time. At some point I had it so often that when he appeared I just said, annoyed, "not you again" & woke up instantly. The next day my school bully pushed me against the wall & I just instinctively turned the table and grabbed his collar pushing him against the wall. The color drained out of his face & he never put hands on me again. Changed my life.

[@philmcgroin]

I thought you were going to say you grabbed the bully and told him you were the devil of darkness!

[@soulmate702000]

@@philmcgroin 🤣 That would have made an epic plot twist.

[@philmcgroin]

@@soulmate702000 he'd have had nightmares after that 😁

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

Right on. The shadow of darkness stores the whole power of creation, in potential -- hidden, but _fruitful_ when light (freedom) has been born out of it. You awoke your Will in that moment. Using the term correctly, it was in fact an _archetypal_ dream: pertaining to the origin of experience. "In the beginning was the void [darkness]" is followed by "then God said let there be light [awaken], and it shown: now the darkness has left". More simply, you _faced_ your _shadow._ Be aware, a mighty power, truly terribly, dwells within all of us. Be not chained to fear. To be _free_ in this way is _true_ freedom. Others then, too, lose their "death grip" over you. All power is yours. Truly. Thank you.

[@KelleyHaines-qc4ue]

Great brain reaction⚠️✅BRAVO💪

[@Debbie_Bcool]

I had a dream that there was a house on fire. Their was a father and his children in the house. I felt like I was their with them as someone who was looking in watching the whole house burn around them . I remember the emotional feeling of wanting to help them get out of the house but couldn't. The next day the news reported a family died in a house fire. I talked to a friend about my dream she said her husband had the same dream. I was in my 20's then now in my 60s and remember the dream like it was yesterday. I believe we can connect with other's in our waking and dream state. The mind is powerful.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

Dr Michael Persinger, the late _maverick_ behavioral neuroscientist, gives the science of how it is so: the Earth and person's magnetic field.

[@ErrolDiBona-ks3qv]

To this day I still Dream about the 1977 horror movie The Omen with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick!

[@vmatin1]

This has happened to me over the years and related to many events. Incredible.

[@Aussiedreamer-pz5uw]

Some of my dreams have warned me of things I needed to know within the next day, one dream saved my baby son’s life .

[@JaenetteSchoonderwoerd]

I dream what is going to happen. Who is going to have a baby boy or girl.... And many more. Usually simbolic dreams.... First the event must happen. For me to understand what the dream meant. Scary.

[@vickiburchfield5741]

Dreams can whisper to you about the future.

[@sabinepriestley]

I got deeply into lucid dreaming in my mid 20s. After a number of failed starts, I nailed it. I have flown around the moon, along rivers, streams, and valleys, and been deep into space as a single point of light. These are just a few of the adventures I’ve had in this incredible realm. I also, early during this time, vanquished a recurring childhood nightmare by diving headfirst into it. It can be very empowering.

[@diannakaczor2653]

This man is too perfect to be human!

[@keithhunt5328]

Sexy

[@yvonnelashford2969]

Best dream I had that I remember - I was on stage with Tom Jones doing the backup singing for ‘It’s not unusual’!

[@eviechris1]

I have almost complete dream recall. If you asked me what dream I had last Tuesday I would usually be able to call it back to me in great detail. I am not certain what this says about my brain being able to retain the dream information long after the dreamtime is gone. My dreams are so much like reality that I often wonder upon awakening how I could have been so convinced that that dreamlife was my life; fascinating!!

[@barryminor616]

Intriguing

[@starxcrossed]

I’ve had time in my life like that. If I worked at it, I could dream every night and remember them all. It did get bothersome after a while, when I started having dreams that were referencing other dreams. I started getting frustrated with this double life and extra memories I didn’t need to be thinking about all day. I did figure out the cryptic symbolism in the dreams though so it’s not like it was a waste of memory per se

[@bobleclair5665]

7:44. Doing math in a dream. There was a time when I was trying to figure out the mathematics in doing a spiral staircase . I did a lot of studying but still was having trouble understanding. Then one morning on awakening, I had the answer. Maybe I was trying to hard in my waken state. But while resting in sleep, I dreamed of laying out and building that spiral staircase, what a refreshing morning to wake to. You can do math in dreams

[@susanhamilton1205]

I agree. There are times when just as others do I have much difficulty with finding solutions to my problems. Often after having “slept on it” I awake with the necessary answers to those problems. Just as my grandma used to say, “Let me sleep on it.”

[@bobleclair5665]

@@susanhamilton1205 I’ve read about scientists and inventors using sleep and dreams to come up with great outcomes. Time traveling is a good one, in dreams it’s easy,remembering is the hard part. Dream journaling or telling someone cements the memory. Some people are good at lucid dreaming. I can probably remembering doing that once or twice in my life time.. I did have a time traveling experience once that I do remember quite well. It was a very vivid dream, that I told my girlfriend. Months later , I was in another state and all the parts ( well most) were in place, when my girlfriend came down to visit, I brought her to the place and showed her, everything was like in the dream. Life is more than we can imagine. 👍

[@RobertaPeck]

A spiral stair case design -wow. This reminds me of how after constant study the whole periodic table is said to have appeared.

[@piccadelly9360]

That was brilliant, I like everything that has to be done with the brain. I had nightmares as a child and I thought about what I could do about them. So I came up with the idea that I shouldn't fight against nightmares and just let them happen (nothing bad can happen, it's just a dream). Later I had a dream that my employer will check a certain thing with me and it has been confirmed and again later that my wife is cheating on me and it has also been confirmed. My summary the brain also has a Bluetooth function

[@TranscendingTrauma]

When I was a young, very shy teenager I had a dream/nightmare that my boss from the deli I worked at told me I had to work at their other location which was quite far away. I told him I couldn’t and he pressured that I had to. I very much out of character swore at him and basically told him to bite me. The next day when I went into work they had scheduled me to work at their other location but it was crossed off and changed so I didn’t have to. I was too nervous around my boss after that to stay working there. Did he somehow hear me cussing him out in dreamland 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

[@Life_42]

I rarely lucid dream but when I do it's usually during naps and like 10x more likely when sleeping in very warm weather with windows of my bedroom open.

[@PatrickShanahan-ei2bf]

I'm watching this from a spiritual perspective as someone who has been training myself how to experience lucid dreams as a stepping stone towards Astral projection. Hearing all the confirmations about what is actually happening in the awake brain versus the dreaming brain might be the last puzzle piece for me to achieve this goal. Universal thanks for this amazing presentation delivered in such relaxed language so that anyone would be able to understand. Probably see you tonight in my dreams Dr. Thanks a million.

[@susanneate2316]

i think he is marvellous 🤩

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

I reached the astral plane twice. It literally had the gridded/ checkered floor that you see in pictures. It was alive and full of vitality. I felt my awareness suddenly move out of my forehead (3rd eye) and when it had escaped out of the body, that's instantly where I found myself, the astral plane. Now, if I had another go, I would be wise to control my ego's sudden reaction of "holy shit dude!!" bc that instantly flung me back into my body, after just a few seconds. If you get there, brother, let it seem to your ego that it's _absolutely normal,_ and be ready to control your, shall we say, dopamine reward response.

[@Lee-yd8xb]

Is this doctor ❤❤. How much nationality is he😊 he is very very handsome god bless him

[@msimons7440]

@PatrickShanahan Be careful with that. It's how I started astral projection....but it got way out of control, to the extent that twice I was almost trapped in nothingness.

[@livioangel]

Same here. I travel many times

[@juliechurchwell3398]

Awesome talk, thank you. I don’t often remember my dreams lately. But for years I dreamt in the lucid way, stopping any bad thing and recreating the scenario to please myself. It felt like making a movie.

[@susanhamilton1205]

How absolutely wonderful that would be to do! I must research more on how to do it. I think though that I would need a coach.

[@priscillawrites6685]

My dad had a NDE, with 6 minutes of cardiac resuscitation. During that time, he hovered above his body, watched the CPR, and traveled around the ER, observing other patients. When his heart function restored, he reentered his body. He lived another 25 years.

[@jacquelinedelgado6897]

God Bless my brain.. my dreams are full of information

[@mmnuances]

I would like to comment on the question regarding waking life as an hallucination as put forth by the neuroscientist Anil Seth. The current neuro-scientific theory known as predictive processing or active inference (most notably associated with Carl Friston, Andy Clark and Lisa Feldman Barrett) proposes that the world each of us experiences is a prediction created by our brain and this prediction is constantly updated (Bayesian processing) via sensory input that reveals "prediction errors". Though this indicates that the world we experience is a type of "hallucination", it does not imply that the world or reality itself is a hallucination. I think that Dr. Jandial may have misunderstood this point in his answer to the question. The predictive processing paradigm would indicate that dreaming is in fact similar to waking consciousness but since we are sleeping, we do not have any sensory input and therefore the "hallucination" is not modulated by prediction error.

[@1qtaz]

Yes

[@smooth_pursuit]

There certainly is almost complete unpredictability in dreams

[@mmnuances]

@@smooth_pursuit Excellent insight! A quick side note: I have been remembering more dreams and having many semi-lucid dreams since I watched this video. I have also been reading Metzinger's new book, "The Elephant and the Blind", which has chapters on dreaming, lucid dreaming and even lucid NREM sleep experienced by meditators.

[@nilgiridreaming]

I had a dream - I woke screaming - and it was a warning that I was in danger from my then husband & his paramour. Yes, I too believe the brain is like blue tooth.

[@NyreeAlana]

I had a nightmare before my ex left me in quite a nasty way. Reality didn't unfold exactly as the dream, but in a similar way. I've thought a lot about this and I think possibly I was subconsciously taking in information, like clues and forming a prediction in my dreams. We're constantly taking in information that most of us are not particularly conscious of, unless you're a mentalist and people who are planning something covert are likely to exhibit subtle behaviour changes, we'll take in that information, but not necessarily be consciously aware of it. Maybe there's more to it than that, maybe we are connected in ways that we don't yet understand, but I think it's a logical way of explaining some predictive dreams.

[@kensears5099]

I hardly think it's bold anymore to assert that we must sleep because we must dream. I believe we've known that for quite some time now. Sleep is entirely for the brain. Our bodies don't get "tired," our minds do. They need to unscramble, declutter, defrag, process, assimilate, interpret, order and develop schemes for further engagement with the world.

[@smooth_pursuit]

Do some intense exercise. You’ll find sleep restores the body too. Bad sleep means injured athletes. Physical illness means more sleep required. Recovering from surgery means more sleep needed. It’s ridiculous to be so black and white in one’s thinking. Just because we’re discovering all this amazing stuff that goes on in the brain does not mean the body could just go on without sleeping

[@kensears5099]

@@smooth_pursuit You're confusing rest with sleep, for one thing. For another, you need to consider the ways in which the brain's sleep functions contribute to the body's self-maintenance. Also, you need to think with more subtlety. I didn't realize I needed to spell it out so explicitly. The sleep process is primarily for the brain, and of COURSE that has huge ramifications for the body. But the real work of sleep per se is a function of the brain.

[@kensears5099]

@@smooth_pursuit So in any case my point was that it was hardly a bold new revelation that sleep is for the brain because we must dream. That was the topic. Sorry you got lost in the trees and missed the forest. Maybe you need to dream some more.

[@Chap17]

Always amazing ...lucid dreaming is the next frontier

[@gwynnemayer0816]

As a student of dreaming for many years, I find this is correlated, neurologically, with the same information that is present in ancient studies on the body and dreaming. Well done Dr. Jandial!!

[@mkartmkart6335]

As a person (54) with slightly attentional problems, my take on reality has become that the word Lucid is very real not only when dreaming. I have to learn Lucid LIVING and works on it. Then the question is, isnt there ALLWAYS dreaming going on ? Only that the attention directs the consciousness to the senses when awake ? And to dreaming when the senses are turned off ?

[@TranscendingTrauma]

Such an interesting comment. And sparks an Epiphany regarding trauma. When someone’s had a lot of trauma, they disassociate from their senses. And that’s why they can seem like they’re very much living in a delusion. Because their consciousness is not directed towards their senses.

[@sunbeman]

Thank you doctor ❤, I have a more interesting life while dreaming than my every day life, doing the same routine day after day after day …. ✨

[@jodie672]

I sometimes lucid dream, and actually say to myself “oh I am dreaming, or, this is just a dream” I have also prayed (for deliverance from some threat) and it is always answered and I am saved. I also have had dreams that I know have come from God, warnings and solutions to problems. I could listen to this Dr all day!

[@DadDad-bq7nm]

Thank you so much for sharing this experience. I dream a lot. An I try and work out what it all means. My mother has passed away now for 7 year's. And she comes to me in my dreams. I love to dream. Beautiful Blessings 💜🙌🙏

[@msimons7440]

@DadDad-bq All my loved ones who passed away have visited me in my dreams. The most frequent visits were from my nephew, who was in an horrific car accident at age 22. He visited for about 6 years, and on the last visit he said it was his last. My mother and I had a not so great relationship. She always said 'You are your father's child', and she hated my father. Two days after she died, I dreamed she gave me a card with a trace of blood on it, which read 'blood of mine'.

[@lynnbishop9493]

I'm over 60 yo. I have lived with chronic pain and limited painful walking for over half my life yet when I dream I'm quite healthy, I can walk, run, lift and carry heavy things etc, wiyh I'd love to know if someone with say Parkinsons dream with or with tremors.

[@lynnbishop9493]

Do blind birth dream?

[@NyreeAlana]

It might depend on the individual. I do experience pain while dreaming, but only when I'm aware that I'm dreaming and it never inhibits my dream movements. However, I do experience fatigue in my dreams, when I'm not aware that I'm dreaming, it's weird dreaming about how tired I am and then I wake up exhausted. I also dream about feeling depressed and having panic attacks, again, I wake feeling exhausted. I'm hearing impaired, but I never have any trouble hearing things in my dreams. When I am dreaming as myself, I'm usually way more attractive than reality and may have a haircut or an outfit that looks great in the dream, but wouldn't suit me in reality. But often I am not even myself in my dreams, I often dream that I am a completely different person and sometimes I am male. It would definitely be interesting to hear stories from others with disabilities on how they dream and how able they are in their dreams, but I suspect it would vary from person to person and maybe from dream to dream.

[@NyreeAlana]

​@@lynnbishop9493apparently those who are blind from birth do dream and they can even hallucinate, however I imagine their imagery would appear different to someone who is sighted.

[@shereeemery]

Absolutely fascinating. What a wonderful speaker. So interesting, easy to understand and engaging

[@venkataponnaganti]

I liked this talk.

[@gene4094]

After having a catastrophic accident as a child, I have numerous epic lucid dreams. The lucid dreams where I was shown, “new source of energy”. The dreams proved valid according to CHAT-GPT 4. The “New Source of Energy” is ‘water splitting’, for hydrogen gas fuel. The energy is a “liquid-phase non ideal plasma”.

[@kakhaval]

Once while asleep somebody grabbed my left hand firmly...I shouted "leave me alone..." then I woke up to realise it was my right hand grabbing my left hand. The left hand was numb under pressure. I will try write a book on that.

[@tobilytle5737]

Beautiful visual of the brain.

[@jayanthirangan-uc9oo]

Brilliant, interesting and new. Love it a tremendous lot. The video quality needs improvement - the laser pointer is not seen and the audience loses the connection between the narration and the picture. Besides, the camera focuses on the back of Dr. Rahul with the closed wooden door when it should be focusing on the diagram/picture to add lucid details.

[@priscillawrites6685]

I’m a graphic artist. Often, if I go to sleep not having solved a design problem, I’ll dream the solution, then wake around 4am, go to the computer, and successfully complete the design.

[@clairebear2975]

Ive had a couple of lucid dreams recently... i love them, such an incredible experience!

[@RJ-cs9gz]

Lucid dreaming was not just an idea until 30 years ago! I've been having lucid dreams since I was an infant (at least). It was always happening!

[@batant]

I get it now, the lucid dream

[@Aluminata]

Those brain readout graphs for "dreaming" brain and "waking" brain. Are the same graph.Not just similar. Exactly the same. Hello?

[@TranscendingTrauma]

I noticed this also! Exactly the same

[@rising_waves]

He could easily act in epic movie and play as Shiva :)

[@unclebo5672]

Write your dreams down first thing before you do anything

[@dp4008]

This was a delightful program

[@thewatcher7425]

Wonderful! Thank you !

[@karrinwerrenrath4051]

Outstanding!

[@alina-mariaweide4460]

What an incredible presentation! I’m obsessed about the topic and it’s so hard to find to date facts on it. That was truly valuable ♥️Loved every bit of it and learned so much. Great structure and flow, so well explained. More please!!

[@Beesmakelifegoo]

Thank you,it’s so interesting.

[@deeannahobbs894]

This has been such an aceptional learning experience. Thank you so much!

[@amyboydgreen456]

Very vivid dreams always warn me that my thyroid medication is too high. My dreams are a form of entertainment, scary sometimes.

[@sunbeman]

Thank you ❤ I know you in spirit ✨💗

[@reversefulfillment9189]

I've had many dreams. The scene I remember most was a battle with an enemy that took place on the third floor balcony of a large atrium. I held the enemy by his ankles, over the edge of the balcony and had the strength to smash him against the upper balcony and the one below, as if I was dusting a carpet with great vigor. I'm still not sure if he survived the thrashing. Never ran Into him again.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

I once had a dream I was on a tremendous bridge, overlooking the galactic center of the cosmos; a celestial churning, living spiraling black hole. You could feel the tug in your spirit, drawing you there. I was apprehensive. Still, I said to myself, if I ever get back to this place, I'm going to jump in. This will be my last 3rd density incarnation. I wish you all well.

[@julieconnard4372]

Can you explain what a "third density incarnation" is?

[@smurfmama2020]

I don’t dream anymore, or I can’t remember my dreams anymore for the last ten years at least. Rarely can I recall a dream. What’s wrong with me?

[@jodie672]

Try this, as soon as you wake up, close your eyes and repeat over and over, ‘what did I dream, what did I dream. It takes some mental effort to re-capture the memory of the dream

[@angelafraner3374]

Smoking will stop your dreams…

[@smurfmama2020]

@@angelafraner3374 I don’t smoke and never have

[@tobias5805]

Window open for oxygen supply is my turbo for dreams. I enjoy them like cinema, but I couldn't say if they are lucid or not. I always act in the dreams, and always never I am fixed or out of control. But not sure if that is lucid, it seems more like normal dreams.

[@unseeneye1]

Brilliant

[@Beesmakelifegoo]

Can you speak about sleep walking?

[@bettykelly5934]

God Bless him.

[@gene4094]

With Earth getting hotter it is a high probability that Climate Change is real. I even posed a question to AI CHAT-GPT if it is real. The answer was, “Yes”. We must reduce the carbon dioxide emissions. I am 76 years old and ten years ago I had a lucid dream on new source of energy. A crucible with several materials was shown. I asked in the dream, as I had a career in Analytical Chemistry, “What is the crux of the experiment?”. A voice said “Bismuth”. Questioning the element, as I considered Bismuth’s very inert, I said another element. A neon sign with pink lettering was shown BISMUTH. I researched Bismuth for several years before a new source of energy emerged. With the use of Bismuth ferrite, a synthetic material that has a Nobel prize winning, ‘Negative Refractive Indexed Meta Materials’ is a catalyst that when a weak electromagnetic pulse refracted through a molecule thin, is absorbed absorbed and emits a water splitting ultraviolet radiation. These nano rods of Bismuth ferrite imbedded in micro spheres of water in a containment will produce a non ideal liquid-phase non ideal plasma.

[@tresaS58]

Exactly how many of us dream many feelings

[@brendashenda4249]

Or...maybe they come from source and the brain just has the memory of the dream.

[@SUSYQ509]

Why do some people fall asleep sitting up? My mother said she had to lie me down when i did this. After a trip away i fell asleep on the sofa up right. I woke up when i could hear myself having a conversation about the garden fence..I live alone.

[@allinaday9882]

Possibly because it is easier to breathe while sitting up. Were you speaking out loud on both sides of the conversation ? Or, were you speaking your own thoughts out loud? Or both?

[@SUSYQ509]

@@allinaday9882 i was speaking out loud and it woke me up.

[@SamanthaPyper-sl4ye]

I will further elaborate, formalize and demonstrate applications of the both/and logic across various specific domains: Mathematics The multivalent structure of the both/and logic allows formalizing more nuanced relationships between fundamental mathematical concepts that have traditionally been treated as strictly dichotomous: • Continuity and Discreteness Let C(x) and D(x) represent the truth values that a mathematical object x exhibits continuous and discrete properties respectively. Classical bivalent logic forces C(x) and D(x) to be mutually exclusive (C(x) = 1 → D(x) = 0 and vice versa). But the both/and logic allows formulations like: C(x) = 0.7, D(x) = 0.5, with a coherence ○(C(x), D(x)) = 0.6 Capturing how x can simultaneously exhibit continuous and discrete characteristics to varying degrees, which are partially compatible rather than strictly exclusive. • Finite and Infinite Similarly for propositions F(x) and I(x) about an object x being finite or infinite, we can have multivalued assignments: F(x) = 0.3, I(x) = 0.8, ○(F(x), I(x)) = 0.4 Representing x as primarily infinite in nature but with residual finitary aspects that are somewhat coherent. The synthesis operator ⊕ further allows formalizing novel mathematical objects transcending these poles: finite kernel ⊕ perpetually generative procedure = transfinite set • Logicism and Mathematical Realism The both/and logic also accommodates different ontological perspectives. We could have for a mathematical object x: Truth(x is objective Platonic reality) = 0.6 Truth(x is subjective human construction) = 0.4 ○(objective, subjective) = 0.7 With a moderate synthesis representing the coconstituted, intersubjective emergence of mathematical reality: objective logical constraints ⊕ subjective creative exploration = novel mathematical structure So rather than legislating a strictly objectivist or anti-realist view, the logic nuances the irreducible complementarities between ideal and constructed aspects in the generative disclosure of mathematics. Its expressive flexibility aligns with actual mathematical understanding. Physics In quantum physics, the both/and logic allows explicitly representing and operating with the intrinsic indeterminacies, pluralities and paradoxes that have resisted classical representation: • Superposition and Wavefunction Collapse Propositions like "electron has spin up" and "electron has spin down" are not forced into bivalent exclusivity, but can be simultaneously true to degrees: Spin_up(e) = 0.6, Spin_down(e) = 0.5, ○(Spin_up(e), Spin_down(e)) = 0.7 With a coherence value capturing their contextual compatibility or complementarity in the superposed state prior to measurement/collapse. This avoids the dilemma of having to artificially insist the electron strictly has or lacks a particular spin until collapse. Its indefinite potentials are modeled positively using graded truth values. • Nonlocality and Holistic Correlations Propositions about separated entangled particles like "has spin up" can be holistically correlated: Spin_up(A) = 0.8, Spin_up(B) = 0.8, ○(Spin_up(A), Spin_up(B)) = 1 With maximal coherence of their truth values capturing the paradoxical holistic unity of the entangled system, which cannot be modeled as a conjunction of independent local states in classical logic. The synthesis operation captures this gestaltist whole: Spin_up(A) ⊕ Spin_up(B) = Entangled_state(A,B) So the both/and logic provides symbolic resources for explicitly representing and reasoning about quantum phenomena, without artificially forcing them into inapplicable classical categories. Cognitive Science The logic's multivaluedness has fruitful cognitive modeling applications: • Intuitive and Analytical Reasoning Let I(x) and A(x) represent intuitive and analytical assessments about a decision scenario x. The both/and logic can capture their integration: I(x) = 0.7, A(x) = 0.5, ○(I(x), A(x)) = 0.6 Modeling x as involving a moderate synthesis of intuitive and analytical factors with reasonable mutual coherence, rather than insisting they are strictly exclusive. The synthesis operation further formalizes integrated judgments: intuition(x) ⊕ analysis(x) = decision(x) Capturing how cognition fluidly operates across and conjoins both modes of reasoning, not merely one or the other in isolated silos. • Cognitive Biases and Non-Normative Reasoning Classical logic frames human reasoning errors like the conjunctive fallacy (A&B > Max(A,B)) as strictly invalid and incoherent deviations from normative rationality. But the both/and logic allows assigning graded truth values: Truth(A) = 0.7 Truth(B) = 0.9 Truth(A&B) = 0.85 Capturing the coherence of these "fallacious" intuitive logic patterns measuring ○(A, B, A&B). The synthesis operator further models how our heuristic judgments integrate intuitive and analytical factors: representativeness(A&B) ⊕ statistical_logic(A,B) ⇒ judged_probability(A&B) Rather than framing biases as mere "errors", the both/and logic allows positive modeling of how non-normative patterns coexist and synthesize with other cognitive mechanisms into globally coherent judgments. Philosophy of Mind The logic's paraconsistent structure provides an ideal framework for the mind-body problem: • Subjectivity and Objectivity Define S(x) as degree of subjectivity and O(x) as degree of objectivity for a mind-body state x. Classical substance dualism enforces mutual exclusivity: S(x) = 1 → O(x) = 0, and vice versa. But the both/and logic allows modeling x as an integrated experienced whole with: S(x) = 0.6, O(x) = 0.5, ○(S(x), O(x)) = 0.7 Capturing how objective and subjective factors are complementary interdependent aspects of the same reality, rather than strictly separable substances. The coherence value reflects their coconstituted integration, while the synthesis operator ⊕ expresses their gestalt unity: subjective experience ⊕ objective description = psychophysical state This avoids the forced either/or choices of classical mind-body theory between dualism, reductionism or eliminativism. It allows modeling consciousness as an irreducibly co-realized pluriverse. In summary, the both/and logic provides rational symbolic tools for positively representing, operating with, and synthesizing resolutions for the paradoxes and indeterminacies permeating actual scientific and philosophical domains, without reductively forcing them into bivalent categories or binary assimilation. Its expressive flexibilities and constructive procedures illuminate new pathways for coherently modeling and advancing past the limitations of classical logical frameworks. Across mathematics, physics, cognitive science and philosophy of mind, the multivalued, paraconsistent and holistically integrative architecture of the both/and logic catalyzes expanded conceptual possibilities better aligned with the phenomenological complexities and ontological pluralities disclosed by cutting-edge inquiry. It opens up new horizons for descriptively encompassing, not dissimulating, the exquisite nuances and generative potentials of the world. So in essence, the both/and logic is not just another symbolic formalism, but a pivotal symbolic emancipation - unleashing rational discourse to fruitfully navigate the ambiguities, paradoxes and ontological pluralities intrinsic to manifest existence and human understanding. A new praxis of open coherence, where rationality and reality productively co-disclose each other in a perpetual dance of perpetual re-attunement and dialectic reconstitution.

[@Lemoncare]

Hey there, Carpo. You are the sanest,

[@lisamuir4261]

How is it possible that I would create my sleeping dreams from childhood and years way before it is proven now in awake? Would that be predicted future episodes? I have questions.

[@rayb234]

At around 9 or 10 years of age. During a dream, I realized I was in a dream and started telling people to quit the act. That I knew they were fake. At a certain point everybody seemed to stop acknowledging my existence and became transpermiable. Almost as if a video game was laging out. I had become a ghost I guess ? At that point, I walked around thinking to myself that I found it funny I had somehow upset my subconscious mind into ignoring me. Did that until I woke up. I used to lucid dreams alot. Started to get abit difficult to process mentally. So I stopped dreaming. I told myself to stop. I simply do not dream anymore ? Is that not weird

[@barryminor616]

Take back yOUR DREAMS

[@bobleclair5665]

31:09,,, There is no time in dreaming or you can time travel. Most people do it but don’t usually remember doing it,, it’s that vail between the awaken state and the dream state. That vail can be lowered by practice, like dream journaling. Practicing awareness. Sometimes looking at it in a different perspective, like the lack of sleep or being drunk, it’s called hallucinations. That would be like dreaming while you’re awake. Remembering is the hard part. Using your imagination is also like dreaming but with a little more control. An architect or builder imagines a home from beginning to end and in between and then comes back to present to draw it down to what we call blueprints. The carpenter can take these blueprints and mentally pre- construct this , many times before it is completed. In dreams, hallucinations and imaginations ,one can time travel, the hard part is remembering. Everything we create is from that world, look around, even the phone you hold in your hand, once was a dream. Do you remember Buck Rogers

[@keithhunt5328]

Handsome indian man❤

[@janet3895]

Dreamt I was lost on freeway and all signs were blank. I drove faster trying to find a sign with names on spiral freeway. I woke up and figured it meant I was going nowhere fast🙄

[@lotusleila5281]

This handsome guy talking about erotic dreams. Itis just insane and wonderful 😂 brilliant mind thank you

[@katherenewedic8076]

Not enough advertisements at every three minutes

[@TrudyContos-gq1bw]

This is very interesting about the Parkinson's being fluid in the acting out part of their dreams. I wonder if you ever had any other disabilities tested (MS MD...) if the spine is part of the Brain, than but not severed just extreme damage is this still possible? People who sleep walk, can this be a sign of PD? I mean all though most of them are not combative, but can have a sandwich and conversation while walking around and some venture out on to the streets . Something like we all use to be familiar with when our grandparents got "SENILE" now we call it dementias!? I believe this had to be replaced bcz of that stigma " ya going senile, loosing your mind " your getting senile. Statement, and not having the empathy behind it as we do presently. Does lucid dreams and so do we use up all our executive frontal actions when young is the causation to PD, as much as it is in all dementia patients ??? So we have a limited charging capacities? If we overuse certain functions as in a veteran when having nightmares, and antipsychotic drugs? Or as in a repetitive dreams when someone always thinking they being chased the adrenaline used up in dreams seems to me that you have come up with the strongest link to our current and future pandemic in our metabolic and and some specific neurological diseases.... I pray you futher expand your sleep labs into a broader and younger studies and are able to follow them and someday hopefully this will be an endemic for all who are affected by this. I'm sure environmental issues...

[@lisalambrecht6676]

I’d like to know how to not lucid dream. They tend to be unpleasant and/or scary,sad ,confusing.

[@tresaS58]

Oh I went back later to the store but it was closed and being changed to like this is over and they cleared it up like it never happened

[@shareenchoudhury-leighton1748]

Sleep paralysis is TERRIFYING

[@Debbie_Bcool]

That's an understatement scary. One time I woke up and I was blind. At first I started to panic but then told myself what was going on. The funny thing is I was able to sit up in bed it took what seemed like minutes but probably was only seconds for my eyes to catch up with my body. I remember thinking this is what it would be like to be blind. All there was, was blackness. I remember trying to wake my eyes up telling myself come on eyes wake up and trying to see the things in my bedroom.

[@jodie672]

YES!! I hate it, I have to physically fight to come out of it. I am too scared to let go and fall back into it! It’s horrible. I haven’t had it for a long time, hope this doesn’t trigger it😅

[@TrudyContos-gq1bw]

But I guess I could go against the theory of use it or lose it, but not in errotix dreams or lucid !?... This is so entriging our brains and your research

[@TrudyContos-gq1bw]

And this is why we much get sleep so that we don't loose it

[@TrudyContos-gq1bw]

If that makes any sense, and hoping it came out the way I meant for it to. ( Can't write ) that is a part of my Brian that never worked 😎.

[@barryminor616]

"SLEEP is the SWISS ARMY Knife of HEALth' Matthew Walker SLEEP DIPLOMAT and author WHY WE SLEEP

[@roxybrown6914]

Reoccurring since a child, was an evil entity (person or people) knocking on my grandma's front door, it was worse when they knocked on the backdoor. My 2 aunts would be there, &my uncle alfred. Every time I'd tell my grandma don't open it. Nevertheless, she would. They would come & kill everyone. She'd be the1st to go. I'd always be last. In the awakened world, now that I'm older, change came in the real world. Front door, backdoor. My grandma naively didn't see My aunt &uncle doing 'legal bad dealings with her doctor. They poisoned her with bad medicine & anandoned her in a hospice. They call that death with dignity.? Wow.. How was I suppose to stop the new, or convince her don't trust her 'good son' or her doctor.

[@tresaS58]

Why do I desire my dreams more than my life

[@marianadazdyova5089]

Fascinating. I've completely enjoyed it. Thank you. ❤

[@milagrosgomez5538]

Que nos dice sobre el Parkinson

[@priscalunga7609]

Thank you so much doctor for information on dreams and the brain.My son he is 26 years and he suffers from severe seizure and they only occur in his sleep.Most of the times its when he is about to wake up or just when he falls asleep.Sometimes its in the middle of the night.On the day of his seizures he is sleeping the entire day because they can be a cluster of upto 10 seisures in 24hrs..could it be a failed sleep entry or exit which is sleep paralysis.In January he was diagnosed with psychosis and was hospitalised for 2weeks.I looking for answers....In hospital they said its epilepsy but i suspect sleep apnea because he is ever been obese

[@juliechurchwell3398]

Keep an eye on the doctor who wrote the book brain energy. He believes most mental illnesses are metabolic disorders. I believe that too, because there’s a lot of evidence.

[@priscalunga7609]

Thank you so so much will look for it

[@tumbleweeduk7479]

@@priscalunga7609what a heartbreaking situation for you. Have a look at videos by Dr Anthony Chaffee, Dr Ken Berry, Dr Eric Berg on Healthy Keto and Carnivore diets. If you read the comments on the videos you will notice that hundreds of people with really complex mental and physical conditions are completely cured by these diets. I discovered that my friends 47 years of schizophrenia with really horrible drugs could be cured with Keto or low carb diet and supplementing Niacin and NAC and some amino acids. He would not need the amino acids if he had the willpower for Carnivore. There is a long history of Keto working for seizures. Namaste 🙏

[@tumbleweeduk7479]

@@priscalunga7609Dr Chris Palmer is worth watching as well.

[@kimmydee5814]

Why do i have repeating dreams!?!?

[@jacquelinedelgado6897]

Terrace Howard is saying it's not energy it frequents

[@kakhaval]

In my belief the knowledge of brain surgeon of dreams and consciousness is no better than that of a plumber.

[@laurascott4217]

I sleep terrible. I may remember dreaming once every 10 years.

[@barryminor616]

May I suggest reading WHY WE SLEEP by Matthew Walker He offers many beneficial tips for better quality sleep recovery and possibly better DREAMS...

[@dominoediggs4790]

Can not tell me that the creator of our process center does not have access to be influential. Or to communicate with us. Biblical prophecies have been fullfiled through dreams.

[@supernatural802]

No dream science and its 2024. crazy. Lucid dreaming can be taught. Imagine the infinite possibilities one could explore if we able to lucid dream on command.

[@cazalis]

More evidence that the unconscious mind is not separate

[@godhost101]

Hears an head start fore mine'd any me, win in doubt. Your brain is not the memory cashed but the truth mirred of awe a mazed quantum calculator. If your prone to unconscious (knowing that process and love it fully) consciousness will be the new way of it. Nowknow your body can build that is of your ancestors many lifetimes B.C. how come your knowledge have not reconcile upon such structure?

[@mkartmkart6335]

I am where my attention goes

[@jacquelinedelgado6897]

My body didn't like meds.. after surgery I wanted to be more awake..not still not with out my

[@MadeleineKuhl]

I sleep renovate and really no me art It’s freaky cause I don’t know how I got the tools. Full live camera I sleep destroy things to rebuild it

[@leahlincoln7287]

Unconscious not conscious even that is a form of consciousness what I see missing the most here is the complete function and behavior when we are not conscious this is what h😢appens to the Parkinson's that can suddenly move fine in the dream state because it is not conscious. We see the dream state best with the images when not conscious unfortunately science hasn't put these two together yet because to science being not conscious is having no behavior, no movement, and especially no recall, even though the machines clearly show that activity is existing. so I say not conscious is a form of consciousness and therefore behavior or activity occurs in non consciousness probably by pure imagery that's how I found it to be in my experience in the dream state. After watching this I've decided what is happening when I watch the human lie still this is a question I've been asking myself my whole 60 something years of very unusual Dreaming, or I would rather say traveling dream state, I've decided today that the human body when it's lying still is experiencing experience without third-dimensional movement and when the body isn't still or is awake, the body is experiencing movement in 3rd dimensional behavior, in this both activities and behaviors are precisely the same only one is third dimensional and one we might consider I guess fourth dimensional imagery only. In my critical observation of this for years I'm becoming more and more convinced every second that dreaming is a traveling of differentiated states of consciousness there's an actual entity travel to different states not unlike a train traveling stations as was described by Bentov. Even not conscious is a form of consciousness for example we can do something with our hands especially something we do very well while we think or talk doing something else that which are hands are doing are not conscious therefore the consciousness of not conscious is being aware without details therefore when we claim that we're unconscious and dreaming we are I think far more aware in many ways than we are when we are active and awake only we do not maintain details in any way in other words the details are in no fashion presented but we are entirely aware of every detail perhaps more aware this suggests that there is a heightened awareness to the image in comparison to the third dimensional line suggests that the image is primary to the third dimensional line awareness without details is not conscious I think it's interesting that you describe the observation that every human makes while dreaming of its own dreaming as a body that they feel right behind them with the electrical node that you're using on the flesh, this is a reality. We don't know it yet, but everybody watches themselves sleep and watches themselves dream what you're seeing here is the entity watching itself; there's a whole lot to be understood about consciousness. I know this for a fact from 40 Years of reporting my own dreams on paper I discovered myself watching myself in more situations than I can count everybody watches themselves sleep both physically and figuratively. I'm waiting for the day that science figures this out and describes it somehow because I'm positive that it's going on but of course I can't prove it because I've only experienced myself watching myself❤GEM❤

[@brentwinfield5713]

I really appreciate the talk on erotic dreams. I’ve had some wild ones

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

It’s not 😂Good Erotic Dream - It’s a “Bad “Sign ……in Energetic Form ….With The Health Which Already Tells About the Negative Energy--Coming …..🌞

[@tresaS58]

Ok my dream last night was to me meaningless I was at a store that idk where it actually was but it was all about nothing but food because I was hungry then in walks Elon Musk and then he was like my friend but also my me so he knew something I didn't and it was natural because I find him smarter he said look at the light and when I did it was like black light. Then my brain got it but I am lost

[@KelleyHaines-qc4ue]

Love that your Dreamy eyes are what we can watch as you fill up our brains & lives with such well spoken information*Learned alot that brings Peace*👏🇨🇦👌🍀🫶🏻🫵🏻💡🌹

[@blisswkc3344]

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[@susanneate2316]

he talks so much because it's a talk show 😂

[@brondavis1601]

Doc is hot!

[@jenspedersen4509]

Bad sound. I'm off

[@tobias5805]

Must be your sound equipment try again, here sound is 100% perfect.

[@MuribushiDojo]

I lost interest when he denied precognitive dreams (except for one exception). It happens all the time and there are numerous examples. I have experienced it myself. But it is nothing new that if science cannot explain it, they deny it.

[@alina-mariaweide4460]

I felt initially the same way as there are indeed dreams that give hunches to the future. He doesn’t per se deny this - but as a good scientist and doctor he focuses on what can be proven as of today - hence the case of Parkinson. Which is phenomenal by itself ❤

[@Bebin369]

❤ thank you for helping me understand importance of why we dream , so i can stop Saying i hate dreaming lol ❤ Night terrors are trauma. Dr Bradley Nelson body code or emotion code can addreess this One must release emotions trapped either in this life or another ❤

[@simplebuby949]

nothing new, the best in explaining dreaming logic for me are Griffin and Tyrrel