TEDxRiverCity - Robert Stickgold - Sleep, Memory and Dreams: Fitting the Pieces Together

[@maryelizabeth19]

Congratulations to Dr. Stickgold, one of the most respected neuroscientists around the world, his conclusions about dreams are awesome.

[@gwapod9885]

I worked with Bob in the early 90s at Harvard on a device to help study REM sleep. One of the highlights of my career. Great talk.

[@DynamicUnreal]

That's why decisions are usually better when you sleep on it than when you react instantaneously.

[@DesertSmeagle]

fun fact of the day, from me to you......if you are told to remember a list of words, take the words and make a little picture or story in your head using the words. Its easy to remember a picture visually because you can go back and just look at one picture in your mind, as opposed to remembering like 14 different memories

[@6thHorseMan]

This guy rocks. I'm so pumped up about dreaming I'm gonna take a nap.

[@bekacynthia]

I remember my dreams and some are really vivid. I’ve had many lucid dreams and they are so weird and fun. I used to keep a journal and write about them all but lost the habit. Guess I’ll go back to it.

[@ScorpioHR]

This is actually a great evolutionary trait: instead of holding all the data, we compress it. Compression in computer science means to extract repeated sequences and mark them with something that generates less data. Same as we say "I talked to my mother and she said was fine". Notice how we use "mother" first, then "she" as an abbreviation. We didn't use the full definition of "mother", but we could say "a woman that gave birth to me and raised me as a child." (and we could go into extent details describing our unique mother). Dreams are simply compressing all the data so we remember only the "big picture" so we can compare it some time in the future and see if we already had similar experience so we don't have to "reinvent the wheel" so to speak. Sometimes dreams can even show us solution to a problem and then dream literally becomes reality (there was a scene in Seinfeld where he woke up in the middle of the night, giggling, and wrote down the joke he just dreamt so he could use it in front of real audience).

[@vicj2141]

In university, I would be walking to class and suddenly be able to save a 23-step logic problem, in my mind without pen or paper, after sleeping on it. Of course that was after hours of practicing logic problems, which paved the way.

[@valeryzimnitskiy1770]

I'm so happy to find some good information about sleep and learning, and not those scams. "learn Japanese in your sleep" kind of scams

[@proSpiritofTruth]

Note how the dreaming is both like childlikeness with nothing at all to do with prejudice, presumption, obstinacy and egoism. It is pure function, and it is only by rationalizing away and inerfering with factual truth that we rob ourselves of quantum leaping forwards in ideal problem solving. Even dreaming is not the only wonderful way in which our Creator Provides so wonderfully for us. What Robert is really saying is that life is all about judgment, both conscious and subnconscious.

[@JPeraltavideos]

wish they put the links of the studies they quote on these TED Talks.

[@XxLightbladexX1]

An absolutely amazing talk. Thank you Mr. Stickgold!

[@osomguy2383]

Amazing lecture, so ecstatic potent.

[@zzaher91]

I stopped smoking weed and actually started to dream again and my memory ,IQ, good habits shot up like rocket nothing against cannabis I just didn't like how I didn't dream

[@kidkinnu1993]

I had the similar experience. Once I stopped smoking pot, my dreams were very vivid and I would dream every night and remember them. I just used to dream rarely when I smoked pot.

[@grb9330]

(11:14) "I wanna end with a 4th example which is how dreaming seams to be part of this, because it actually could give us a theory of the brain. But I don't have time for that." --- NOOOOO, PLEEEEAAASE!!!!! Does someone know more about it or where I could find that information? I´m devastated, please help!

[@DynamicUnreal]

Lesson from this, at least for me, practice Call Of Duty before I go to sleep and while I'm sleeping my brain will pick out the important things and start to piece the puzzle together. One thing that I don't understand though, is it better to practice a skill in the morning then sleep at night, or is it better to practice at night when you are somewhat tired and sleep right away?

[@honorbanona3185]

is this theory originally from Robert or has he just done research on it?

[@TheSlick44y]

can someone synthesize this down for me?

[@skan8]

How about giving an answer to a sleeping subject?

[@MsGnor]

Lovely talk, engaging man xx

[@gianlucasartor4254]

Does anybody know where to find the script?

[@timy.5352]

Mr. Cameraman, why can't you focus your shot on his slides every once in a while :-/

[@slowrunn3r88]

So does that mean that since my brain's figuring out a solution...in my dreams I'm not shy at all and have all these amazing conversations with cute girls, and as I'm dreaming it feels real and I can tell it makes a lot of sense...but then I wake up and forget :\ Does this mean my brain's trying to figure out a way to be less shy...?

[@nuggetdoesstuff8043]

I realize that this comment was from 8 years ago, but this could also be unconscious wish fulfillment, one of the earlier theories as to the function of dreaming. You want to be less shy, so in your dreams you are.

[@adelRX7]

Mmmm SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeEeP ZZzzzzzz Thank You So Much

[@vpeck2]

he ought to check out Empire of the City if he wants to REALLY know how 9/11 happened... then sleep on that!

[@ScorpioHR]

Imagine the nightmares Flat earthers have!

[@DesertSmeagle]

defrag

[@juanbarrita7090]

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[@vedantsridhar8378]

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[@slippindaily]

Rlll..

[@abdulrahuman7210]

Oops Arab man with backpack..! Should I run ..?!!🤔🤔

[@idontknow19651]

hahahaha

[@cupcake9805]

No has actually got a clue .

[@TheAntiGravityRevolutionTube]

I reckon this guy has been tryin to justify to his wife (or husband) why he's been so lazy all his life :) "Honestly love, i've got to have a kip, it's science".......