The Dreaming Mind: Waking the Mysteries of Sleep

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Where do our dreams come from, why do we have them, and what do they mean? Can we harness them to foster creativity, solve problems, and prepare for the future? What’s happening in the brains of so-called lucid dreamers, and can new developments in this cutting-edge field of research help us unlock the mystery of consciousness itself? Researchers Deirdre Barrett, Ken Paller, and Antonio Zadra join Brian Greene for a discussion about the mystery and power of dreams and where our minds go after midnight.
This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
Footage of the Ken Paller dream study from NOVA Online: Dream Hacking, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/d..., ©2021 WGBH Educational Foundation.
Participants:
Deirdre Barrett, Psychologist
Ken Paller, Neuroscientist
Antonio Zadra, Psychologist
Brian Greene - moderator
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[@kevo6767]

I was paralyzed in a car accident when I was 17. I'm 35 now and still to this day I still walk in my dreams.

[@E-Kat]

Oh.... I'm so sorry for you. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@mantonwalkinshaw676]

My mom is a quadraplegic has been since she was 17 and she is 59 now she also dreams that she still walks how crazy is that

[@kevo6767]

@@E-Kat oh don't be I wouldn't change it if I could. It's actually brought me to a pretty good place in life so I can't really complain.

[@kevo6767]

@@mantonwalkinshaw676 I sometimes go back an forth between walking and pushing but most of the time I'm walking.

[@E-Kat]

@@kevo6767 you're such a good person, to look at it that way! I'll try to learn from you how to appreciate my awful existence on this planet where I live in fear of another day. Wishing you all the best! Thank you so much for being an inspiration to me. ♥️♥️🤗

[@lorimiller4301]

My dreams are so realistic that I wake up exhausted from them.

[@AricTWS]

I do too. My Dr referred me to a sleep center. I guess cpeps help a lot. Try checking that out.

[@jennzenn971]

Me too, glad im not the only one.

[@lawof1860]

My eyes went straight to your comment , havent even started the video and couldnt agree fast enough 😂

[@lindaohanraha-hanrahan2817]

I hear you. I actually go work at my old jobs all night in my dreams and I live with my parents. So real.

[@charlierogers9624]

Shut up mayte

[@davidmac1004]

calculus was a nightmare at school until i figured it out in a dream. When I woke up and looked at my homework I discovered I could solve all the problems. that was 40 yrs ago and I've never forgotten that moment.

[@phantomhawk01]

Cool

[@europeanmango6596]

Story

[@LuisEnriqueRiveraCuyar]

Amazing!! What industry did you end up in ?

[@zenwaters5618]

What connection did you see?

[@zimnesuhvezdie9027]

Once we had to solve difficult trigonometric problem at secondary grammar school (gymnázium) and even my very smart schoolmates couldn't figure it out that quickly. Somehow I saw the solution almost immediately and I told others. Some gathered around my table and said they're gonna swallow a hairbrush if I'm right. We all started to solve it. They were faster than me and got rewarded because the solution was right. However, I didn't come to the right result myself because I made some stupid primitive mistakes in simple math and also my calculations were too slow compared to the genius minds around me. Nevertheless my boyfriend at the time sitting next to me was very proud of me. You may ask him :) (I'm best friends with his wife now :))

[@vannalikehannah6776]

My dreams are more exciting than my real life!!

[@asym08]

😂

[@jacquelinesento425]

Same here lol 🤣

[@Meso504]

I'm convinced the dream realm is a place. The scenery, settings, and locations in my dreams have been consistent, since I was a child.

[@maddienellis7148]

Me too it’s very weird

[@lawnmower4884]

The 4th dimension!

[@rishyrish6508]

i remember loads of dreams ive had from being a child to now and ive always felt that some of my dreams are like windows into parallel universes. Its like im always myself in my dreams but in a completely different universe or reality.

[@priyakulkarni9583]

Anyone had dream of flying like a bird 🦅?? I mean literally. I get those dreams once I’m a year. I fly from ground to the sky and see below all the roads people and where to drop myself as easily as bird. What a feeling!!! Amazing feeling and so real.

[@DAND3Li]

Me too!! Also sometimes I dream straight up new movies with real actors and plots where I’m not present. And other times I’m other people and dreaming their dreams

[@user-qp1jh5vm8m]

Genesis 8 Lexham English Bible The Flood Subsides 8 And God remembered Noah and all the wild animals, and all the domesticated animals that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to blow[a] over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens[b] were closed, and the rain from the heavens[c] was restrained. 3 And the waters receded from the earth gradually,[d] and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days. 4 And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters continued to recede[e] to the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. 6 And it happened that at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made. 7 And he sent out a[f] raven;[g] it went to and fro[h] until the waters were dried up from upon the earth. 8 And he sent out a[i] dove[j] to see whether the waters had subsided from upon the ground. 9 But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the earth. And he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark. 10 And he waited another seven days, and again he sent out[k] the dove from the ark. 11 And the dove came to him in the evening,[l] and behold, a freshly-picked olive tree leaf was in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth. 12 And he waited seven more days,[m] and he sent out the dove. But it did not return again to him. 13 And it happened that, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was dried up. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 And God spoke to Noah, saying: 16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you all the living things which are with you, from all the living creatures-birds, and animals, and everything that creeps on the earth, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So[n] Noah went out, with[o] his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, and everything that moves upon the earth, according to its families, went out from the ark. 20 And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said to himself,[p] “Never again will I curse[q] the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth. Nor will I ever again destroy[r] all life as I have done. 22 As long as the earth endures,[s] seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.

[@lela8081]

Same..its so vivid and weird..sometimes i miss those places

[@TaiJ-Aird]

Its crazy because most of the times im either someone else but feel like its me but when i look at my body or mirror its not... I have even been something that looked like an amoeba in a world where we use static to move it was a prettty trippy dream..

[@Interloper12]

One thing that always fascinated me about dreams was certain geometries inside the dream. Relating to Brian's renovated building dream, I often dream of huge buildings or landscapes also, with crazy geometry. Unique shapes that make perfect sense in the dream. But when I wake up my brain can't make sense of the shapes I saw. I can REMEMBER the dream in its entirety. But when I try to focus on the intricacies like specific shapes, my conscious brain can't picture or make sense of it.

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

Wow..I love this. And I can relate. The brain seems to be more fluent to transfer cognitive (earthy) paradigms.

[@melidsalopez3231]

Different dimensions for sure! Humans are only allowed to see in 3 D a little of 4D but that’s it. You may have awaken your consciousness, that’s why you can be in control, or create, remember, and see things you can’t see or comprehend in this space. Of 3D

[@nightmarerex2035]

yea i end up inside schools and hotels in dreams and theres ofton an arcade room with meany anomalus machines that make sense and function in the dream but dont in the 3-d

[@paulawatson8923]

Wow I kinda understand this. I find that I know what my dream was in my head when I'm awake but then when I go to tell it out loud (idk how)it doesn't seem to make sense like it did in my head. I have to just say I can't remember it???

[@dudewtfdudewtf5095]

Interesting observations

[@nikobellic3856]

My conversations with people in my dreams feel more real and heartfelt then my shallow conversations in real life

[@mr.anonymus6110]

I really love that this content about neuroscience, sleep, consciousness and psychedelics is discussed by a multitude of experts in their field in such an interesting format for free. I hope this keeps going and we can ever further enlighten ourselfs about ourselfs. A big thanks for that.

[@cuauhtlip]

I have been having lucid dreams since i was 9 yo, I have hyper lucid dreams when i can control everything and Im fully aware of everything, i can create cities, create and destroy people, know that conversations that i have with people are with my self, I can know that I'm dreaming and remember that laws of physics are created by me, I can eliminate gravity, I've checked my dream integrity by feeling my heart and trying to figure out how fast I was dreaming by counting seconds between heartbeats, but hyper lucid dreams are shorts and then i go back to normal lucid dreaming where I'm aware but not 100% conscious where I've heard most of lucid dreams fall. I can even be cartoon, be a paper, be a though a smell a color if that makes sense....

[@mr.anonymus6110]

@@cuauhtlip that sounds pretty incredible, I've tried to learn it but I've been far from that for sure :D

[@marcuscarr2936]

@@cuauhtlip WOW! Thats a blessing!! Thats nearly a super power! Have you always been in control? I would love to read a research paper or watch an interview of you! So many questions!

[@melidsalopez3231]

@@cuauhtlip makes perfect sense. We are creator beings that’s why. ❤❤❤

[@melidsalopez3231]

@@marcuscarr2936 right!? Lol I know a few interview podcast that I see him on 😂❤❤❤❤

[@shelbycross304]

I unintentionally taught myself lucid dreaming. I have been using ASMR as a sleep aid since I was 11 back in 2007. I love the videos that say “tisk””tisk””tisk”, etc. I lay down in bed, turn on the video and instantly go to sleep and the video will continue to play. It’s still playing when I hit REM and the words will bring me into a lucid dream.

[@taleandclawrock2606]

I have always been fascinated by dreams, perception and consciousness. I kept a dream journal nightly for 7 years. By the end of that time, i would remember 4-6 dreams most nights, and the detail of my dreams had pared down and become very direct and explicit. Several of my findings from this personal experiment shocked me, and frightened me, so much so i then spent quite some years trying to forget my dreaming!. One finding i will share, is that fully 1-2/3rds of those dreams turned out to be explicitly precognitive. Now that i am an elder person, i am preparing to record my dreams for the rest of my life. Its too much interesting time to just disregard. It makes zero sense that such an energy intensive and consciousness comprehensive activity would have no reason for existance.

[@mrs_Mccoy]

Psychedelic can help

[@mrs_Mccoy]

Got some from a Drugstore online

[@mrs_Mccoy]

FROM TRIP_MYCOLOGIST

[@mrs_Mccoy]

in instagram

[@adamkrueger4463]

I have experienced similar dreams. meeting people in dreams, then meeting in real life. Dreams of days, that come true. What is that?

[@williambayer7854]

Shared a dream with a roommate once. I dream almost every night, he almost never does. Still remember the dream and him asking me in the middle of the dream if it was a dream and I told him yeah. We woke up half hour or so later had a chat about it. Such a crazy thing

[@HayleydeRonde]

@circlek My siblings used to have conversations with each other in their sleep while both dreaming, used to crack us up listening to them both.

[@iainford7592]

Everyone dreams, whether any of those dreams are remembered once awake is a different matter.

[@HayleydeRonde]

@@iainford7592 No they do not, google Charcot Wilbrand Syndrome.

[@Badass_Brains]

Dreams are literally the brain going crazy :) (it simulates the brain of a psychotic person during REM sleep).

[@dialamark7863]

I have unique experience with lucid dreams, I learnt how to drive a car in my dreams, years later, I drove with no instructions or any help from anyone and it was so profound feeling about my ability.

[@neharai4927]

Interesting

[@DaveTorres4229]

Psychedelic help alot and they're like a cheat sheet to life, but you could also experience the same things. Psychedelic amp tf out whilst being sober, mediation and astral projection are key.

[@Felix_7280]

Psychedelic definently have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like depression and anxiety, I'd like to try them but it's just hard to source here. Hope you can help.

[@jamesharris3137]

I've heard so much and I really want to try them too. I put so much on my plate and it's really affecting my stress and anxiety levels.

[@Mikky_40]

@dr.henryshroom ******

[@antoniojames5766]

I'm in CA how can I get it?

[@RibeccaTotti_5931]

Just hit him up, he'll let you know how your product will be delivered to you.🍄👍

[@SerendipityInTheSky]

I write and more than once I’ve been inspired in my dream, once I wrote a fabulous poem and another I worked out my response in a philosophical essay. I lucid dream fairly often and both times I knew I was dreaming and I told myself “I must remember this when I wake up I must remember this when I wake up” but unfortunately was never totally successful. After the dream about the essay I wrote some ideas down but it just frustrated me because I knew it wasn’t quite it - my rational brain had clicked in. The poem came to me while camping in the badlands and I sadly did not have a notebook beside me but I know for a fact it was the most beautiful poem I have ever written.

[@shiannful]

Same, I dreamt of the most beautiful music I’d ever heard and I too had a sense that I had wrote it. I couldn’t remember it when I woke up.

[@nocturnalsingularity3138]

I meet people often who say they don't have dreams, or more accurately they don't remember them. A lot of these people don't even care!!! For some reason, this makes me sad. I would become unhappy if I stopped dreaming, and would certainly care. For me my dreams are like a friend, or like a huge part of me that no one has access to. A private world for me to learn about myself within, and look back on while I'm awake. This makes me feel like the ones who do not dream, are missing out on something major.

[@bujodrag]

I'm 45 years old now and as far I can remember I always have had what is called Lucid dreams. I have never dreamt a nightmare. If dream was stupid, disturbing or simply boring I would said to myself (while dreaming): dream that good looking girl you saw yesterday or, most often, dream that gig you played that was good, because I was a drummer before. I hope they will talk deeply about lucid dreams. They are fantastic.

[@lucashouse9117]

I wish I knew how to lucid dream. Since asleep is the only time I'm not in pain.

[@Alex-js5lg]

I've only ever had two lucid dreams, but neither was an enjoyable experience. One involved being disemboweled, and one involved being unable to find my bus after school. I wanted to wake up from both, but just couldn't.

[@bujodrag]

@@lucashouse9117 For starters put one notebook next to your pillow. Then imidiatly as you wake up write down what you remmember. At first it would be nothing , so write the date and sentence: Dont remember nothing. Do that every day and week or two you woul start to write few sentrnces, And,after a year or so you wil write several pages every morning. I still have some of those notebooks, dreams are huge and interesting. Sorry about my typing, I have multiple sclerosis for last 5 years and my hand shake

[@bujodrag]

@@Alex-js5lg then that is not a lucid dream because from lucid dream you can wake whenever you want

[@Alex-js5lg]

@@bujodrag well, I was fully aware that I was dreaming. Call it what you will.

[@GarryBurgess]

I can always tell when my dog is dreaming. Sometimes her legs move like she's running, or she's making wimpering or excited sounds telling me that she's seeing something in her dreams.

[@gps9715]

My dog barks when he's dreaming but his mouth stays closed so he makes the most hilarious sounds. I actually thought they were seizures when I first got him because he jerks around so violently, but now I know they are just dreams, but man, he goes crazy wherever he goes to in those dreams. lol

[@bill3941]

Did you ever think that when you wake up all the people in your dreams might say." ,Hey where in the heck did they go ? They were just here a minute ago. "

[@beckslynn5052]

While we are saying "whew, thank God that was just a dream!" LoL 😆

[@momo_x]

I use to think that ALLLL the time when I was a kid lol

[@azianzenzation]

everytime 😂

[@erhannnnn]

My recurring dreams: 1. I’m missing math classes over and over again. The final exam is approaching and I continue missing the classes. (Last math class I took was 17 years ago) 2. I forget where I park my car (own one) motorcycle (don’t own one) in my hometown city. I cannot find them. 3. I’m in an elevator in a high rise building or a high rise mall type of building. I don’t know where I’m going. But I continue to take elevators up. 4. I’m traveling on an airplane. Inside seating design of the planes are always different than usual. I sometimes miss the flight, or hurry to make the flight. If I make it, I usually sit alone.

[@JoeMicroscope]

I often Lucid dream, and most often during listening to Science podcasts like this one. I go to sleep listening to podcasts every night because I have tinitus and the podcast helps. I find I am listening to the podcast in my dream, looking at Brian and watching his lips move. I then ask Brian a question, but he never listens just keeps on talking. At this point I realise that I am dreaming. I find it interesting that his lips move and are in sync with what he is saying. This makes me believe that there is a time delay between what I am listening to and the lucid dream that enables the two to be in sync. Once I dreamed I was playing drums to a jazz big band. I played perfectly to all the saxophone, trombone and trumpet arrangements. Then I realise I was composing the complete big band arrangement in my imagination. I could hear all of the instruments in the band playing.

[@michellechapman8738]

Have you ever had a dream in black and white? No color? Can you smell in your dreams. I can't....

[@magginoodles2433]

I have got some control over lucid dreaming. I use it as a virtual reality kinda thing.... I first be little sleepy then I think about that topic and imagine about it deeply... After that when I go to actual sleep state my thoughts have turned into a real dream so I'm lucid dreaming and can have control over my dream... So basically it got me the ability to dream about whatever I want, I just need to imagine about it deeply enough, when I feel sleepy.

[@JoeMicroscope]

@@michellechapman8738 I never in black and white. I can't remember smelling in my dream.

[@ClaireDelSol]

I started lucid dreaming as a kid because I was determined my dreams should have the intro music like the cartoons on TV 😂 so I created my own as I went to sleep and found I could have further control into the dream … 🤩

[@Badass_Brains]

Your brain must be good at anchoring itself in reality then! During dreaming, our brains temporarily simulate the brain activity of a psychotic person, so you having the ability to realise that what is happening isn't real is quite impressive!

[@jonathaneffemey944]

I am now retired but I was a High School Teacher in various schools in central London for 30 years. I quite often dream about teaching. Some of these are very lucid and detailed. It is as if there is a cabinet I open up and pull out these memories.

[@indiecindy3053]

As I got older, my sleepwalking turned into lucid dreaming, although I didn’t know that’s what they were called. The first lucid dream involved a drowning dream. I was not able to reach the surface of the water and then told myself this is just a dream, so just breathe in the water, so I did. Now a lot of dreams involve telling myself something to overcome a PROBLEM. Other lucid dreams I have had: the falling dream… involved telling myself I can bounce when I hit the ground so I did; I bounced when I hit like a bouncy ball all over the place. Hahaha! I have also had dreams so vivid and horrible that they would give Stephen King nightmares. Although I used to sleepwalk nightly I don’t have lucid dreams nightly. Lucid dreams usually occur on average once a month.

[@Badass_Brains]

Would you say that your lucid dreams are usually pleasant or unpleasant? Does it get affected by how you are feeling while you are awake? Can you normally make the dream as weird as you desire, or are there limits?

[@E-Kat]

I shared a dream with my daughter! We were both able to describe the content of this dream we both had enjoyed.

[@_4200h]

I shared a dream with a roomie once, I wouldn't have believed her if she hadn't blurted out her part of the dream before I could!

[@E-Kat]

@@_4200h wow!! We were flying together above countryside! What was your dream about, if I may ask? This is so fascinating, isn't it?

[@Belong2theuniverse]

@@E-Kat i had the same with one of my friends, i had this dream 3 times. It was a walk at the beach and everyone was running away from the something so once we turned around a a huge tsunami 🌊 was heading our way so we looked at each other and decided there was no point in running so we drank the beer we had in our hand and woke up after the wave hit us. I was telling my Roommates the story that i kept having this dream and my friend stopped me and finished the story and even asked him what kind of beer we had and he answered correctly 😮

[@Belong2theuniverse]

@@brendacx6100 dreams are such a trip haha, it also reminds me of the movie 2012 when the tsunami 🌊 hit the Indian family and had no choice but to hug it out and not run like the rest of the people around them. I actually haven’t had that dream ever since the 3rd time i had it which was 2020. I do have other dreams of war happening and such things but no tsunami.

[@user-io8bm6gz5z]

never happened

[@etandrepont]

I’ve had prolific dreams without knowing it. When my dreams in New Orleans were intense enough to share with my best friend, I did in order to basically let them out and loosen them from my strong hold. After several shares, life moved forward. When I had waking visions those were shared as well or my friends noticed my dream drawing on my cocktail table. Many, many years passed and those vivid dreams came to fruition without my noticing or realizing until my friend called to check up on me. After hearing what took place, he stated that my dreams and visions are prolific. All at once all of what I shared made perfect sense. I had those profound dreams and visions to prepare me as well as my friends emotionally and mentally for ours and my future. It truly hit home when I unpacked my belongings from storage and I looked at my drawings. If my long past friend would not have reached out to me I might would not have made that connection. Same goes for if I would not have shared my dreams and visions. ETA🌹

[@1966human]

I can wake up with full playing music I can hear with instruments and lyrics

[@sky2461]

Same!

[@naydee]

I don’t always have vivid dreams and I cannot control them. When I do have vivid dreams that are beautiful, I tend to remember them the most and treasure them as something rare and precious. My favorite one was about two years ago. I began to fly over open water and I lifted myself above a beautiful recreational sailing vessel. The view was incredible as I looked down upon the ship. The details that I saw and the colors and sensations left me feeling euphoric. I surely love the memory.

[@Badass_Brains]

When you do have them, do you usually dream that you are flying? Or does the dream content usually vary?

[@alanmacdonald3763]

Adepts including Christ know that consciousness is the prime field, brain a transceiver, processing both local and non local signals. Many, especially quantum physicists now accept this. THIS is what Christ calls the kingdom of heaven within, the prime state of existence. Adepts train to subdue local inherited reptilian memory, local mammalian learned memory to stream from source. Continuous light bulb moments, hence halos around head in images. Dreams are daily status reports from the field telling us how to come into alignment with it. They can seem weird at times as local signals are used to represent non local events. Meeting with guides etc. Very similar to out of the body experiences at near death. Brain does not generate Consciousness, it is the prime field of existence. Adepts know this, publish and local tribes turn it into memory based (mammalian) rituals. Not genuine self-realization. We are fractals of non local consciousness having local experiences, a feed back mechanism to source. When we become enlightened, we extend consciousness.

[@denny414]

​flying dreams are very common I had one during a lucid dream I was flying over a body of water to a city that looked battle damaged then another section of the city which was untouched and undeveloped i went on a short crime spree 😂

[@gabrielejomafuvwe4711]

Dream has always been part of my life, I always dream about things before they happen. Dream is the eye I use to view reality, without my dreams, I'm blind. I also discovered that no matter how complicated a dream seems, I could connect the dot together to make complete sense.

[@kerenkabakov128]

Me too, this is crazy ! How can it be ?!

[@azianzenzation]

I had a dream once where i figured out pi, that morning i woke up was the most peaceful i ever felt in my life.

[@trentp151]

Dreams become very clear when one trains the mind to go lucid during sleep. When you become aware of your dream inside of your dream, everything lights up, and you can rapidly transform, create, explore, fly, manifest, and perform magic that has always been portrayed in the best fictional and mythological stories of all time. If we understand that a soul or spirit exists, we can more rapidly tap into this realm, and therefore make more impactful changes to our waking environment.

[@camillapalmer82]

So well put.

[@michellechapman8738]

Yes. I had a lucid dream and i levetated in the air all the way into the clouds. It scared the crap out of me!! This was 20yrs ago..then ive had them again and now i can control my levetation. Its so intriguing!!

[@trentp151]

@@michellechapman8738 That is awesome! I loved it the first time I flew in my dream, especially when I started becoming fully cognizant of the dream. Flying was actually my #1 "dream sign" that I recognized as being a dream while dreaming. Then I started manifesting scenarios and conversations with people intentionally, and it really changed the way I think of consciousness.

[@Smyrna37]

Started writing my dreams down on waking as a child. Trained myself to remember before I knew that was what I was doing. As a result I lucid dream and sometimes astral project. Dream world is fascinating. Real life movies of different genres

[@magginoodles2433]

I have got some control over lucid dreaming. I use it as a virtual reality kinda thing.... I first be little sleepy then I think about that topic and imagine about it deeply... After that when I go to actual sleep state my thoughts have turned into a real dream so I'm lucid dreaming and can have control over my dream... So basically it got me the ability to dream about whatever I want, I just need to imagine about it deeply enough, when I feel sleepy.

[@sarathbulathsinghala9635]

What I cannot fathom about dreams is how they are constituted by the mind? The dreams I have are so perfect in their intricate details. Some dreams are of objects and persons I have never seen or met before and they are so 8K constructed. How does the brain get the inputs to construct these forms which we see in dreams and to be so lifelike if there are no previous memories or inputs of the same? Or are dreams constructed in a lego-like manner out of already seen or heard pieces of existing memory lets? It is as if a monkey given a paintbrush has painted a Raphael! If the brain is only a storage device with very very large memory capacity, then can supercomputers dream?

[@JDSynchronist]

we dream in the astral realm - research and you will find answers

[@0ptimal]

Yes it's very interesting. I had a dream where I was conversing with super intelligent people and speaking in ways I could never pull off in real life. As if I'd become some mega mind. It felt so real and every word and sentence was complex but made sense, it all just flowed and felt as if I'd mastered every aspect of language and speaking. This is far from my reality especially when speaking in person. I woke astonished, wondering how in the world could I even imagine speaking like that. Felt like I tapped into something, as if I have that ability in me and somehow through the dream I'd harnessed it, fully. Makes me think of acquired savants and how they can acquire a super ability in an instant. Was it there the whole time? And suddenly unleashed? Seems more plausible than things suddenly being rewired. But with dreams you can never be sure, I could have been speaking total gibberish and somehow just remember it as if I were speaking intelligently.

[@andreab425]

Also I just wanted to comment and say much RESPECT to Ken and Antonio for advocating for fellowman and the things we still hold sacred in our modern world where we cannot advocate for the amount of stimuli and advertisements we do have to contend with on a daily basis

[@sky2461]

I've dream journaled for 40 years. It's fascinating to revisit them and see the different phases and emotional evolution. The dreams got more poignent with age. Warnings to leave an abusive person, reminders to heal the inner child... all in colorful symbolisms. Most of my songs come from dreams too. I've been recording them for decades. Recently I simply had to organize and publish the journal.

[@spaceman5734]

Reality is in the things you dont see but instead FEEL.

[@jesseherbert2585]

I had the pleasure of hearing a presentation Deirdre gave at the first regional conference (Northeast) of IASD outside Boston a number of years ago, and to say it was excellent is putting it lightly. I purchased a number of her books on that alone (and the stellar reviews) but have only had time to read parts...if she sees this, I hope they are available now as audiobooks (or will soon be) as I love listening to these while commuting/etc. As she shows in this interview, her insights have depth and are rich with layered understanding. Bravo!

[@andersonsystem2]

We are consciousness and so when we dream we experience consciousness. We can tap into other dimensional spaces in the universe in my opinion.

[@vandavis705]

I have been a very lucid dreamer for years and I often listen to intellectual podcasts and I often wake up in full discussion with the voices and I am living an entirely different situation other than on the podcast in my dream. I find it hilarious and very enjoyable. Often I immediately return to sleep and immediately continue and change the direction of my dreams.

[@itsprostyleshacks3902]

One thing I've noticed while sleeping on a lobster boat while the engine is running with the sway of the ocean is its very easy to get into a state where your still awake yet sleeping so you still hear the engine but your dreaming and your thoughts become very lucid for example if your dreaming about someone talking it becomes very real as though the person is right beside you actually talking. Also if you say think about making a song while you go to sleep, when you get in that half asleep state it's as though your thoughts go on some instinct autopilot and the song becomes perfect, yet if you suddenly realize what's happening and wake up you'll never remember the lyrics of the perfect song you created. Also once your fully asleep your dreams are very vivid, creative and amazing not quite a lucid dream which I've had once which was like I woke up in a virtual reality, it wasn't like a dream it was like real life, I could feel the sand between my toes, I could smell the outdoors and the sunset was so bright and real, it was life changing as I've never experienced that in a dream, I literally just kept looking at my hands and my surroundings in amazement but I knew it was a dream but it had every detail and feeling of real life. It didn't last that long before I snapped out of it and woke up but to this day it's changed my way I look at dreams and what they are capable of. I now try to pay more attention to what happens in my dreams and try to remember them for as long as I can because the new thing I've noticed is it's like my dreams try to tell me things, 2 relationships I've had now I had some dreams that tried to warn me of a future outcome. The first relationship I dreamt that me and my girlfriend was at some sort of get together or party and she was cheating on me, in real life many months later she went to a campground get together/party and cheated on me and left me. Not 100% the same as the dream but the gist of the dream was there. The second girlfriend I constantly had dreams of her always disappearing and when I would find her she was prostituting herself or sleeping with some guy. For months I dreamed this....in reality I actually learned later she was sleeping with some men for money and she was sleeping with random guys just for fun. I couldn't believe how on point my dream was and how desperately it tried to tell me night after night. Also right before the bidens blunder in Afghanistan I had a dream that me and my kids were in a desert mountain type terrain trying to hide and escape, we were soo scared and then we seen troops coming our way and we tried to hide cus we thought they were hostile but they were usa troops and we were soo glad they were on our side then I woke up. About 3 days later in real life the taliban took over Afghanistan and families were trying desperately to escape. My mind was kinda blown. Everyone should keep track of their dreams. Don't forget them

[@tworfling]

To keep it short, I really resonate with your comment! I’ve experienced all these things. The craziest future dream I had was vivid and eery. I was walking around a certain place, noticing specific area points that were all connected. The main reason I remembered the dream was because I fell into a pit of cacti. I was scared and weirded out when I woke up, and made a mental note. A couple of years later I visited an island during a school trip, and it was INTENSE deja vu. I even said it out loud over and over “I’ve seen this in a dream! I’ve seen that place! That too!” but my classmates thought I was crazy. There were a lot of cacti there too, I was mindful of them and where I stepped. Thankfully I didn’t get hurt. I haven’t had future dreams after that but I’m thankful.

[@itsprostyleshacks3902]

@@tworfling yea documenting dreams is key if your gonna follow them and build evidence, it's pretty amazing though

[@e-man2081]

Usually the girlfriend dreams you were cheating (when you weren't) and then she's mad at you 😄 but in your case you were right. Sometimes your subconscious mind figures out certain people are no good before you consciously realize it. You knew subconsciously that those girls were ho's.

[@rsolis69]

I had a dream I attended a dinner party hosted by Brian Green. It was a super boring dinner so I decided to increase the vibes by persuaded all the guest to play tennis & basketball. At the end we all jumped in the pool fully clothed. Such a fun party Brian! 😊

[@felipedanielsouzadaniel9552]

The universe is so abundant that it fulfills our desires when we are sleeping; dreaming proves this theory."

[@sarahmariposa9475]

I love that idea

[@felipedanielsouzadaniel9552]

@@sarahmariposa9475 me too.

[@thegreensun4944]

I’ve had lucid dreams in the past. Very cool ones too. But I had a very lucid dream recently. It was a stressful dream, it really felt like I was moving about in the dream then it ended being that I couldn’t breath all of a sudden ! I was HALF aware that I was in a dream so I forced myself to wake up and realized the way I was sleeping on my pillow, my airway was blocked because my neck was folded forward. I woke up gassssping for air. I woke up so tired and like I didn’t sleep at all and more exhausted than when I went to sleep. “Dreams” are sooo interesting. Thank God I woke up in the physical.

[@gen-zeke-8571]

Realistically we cannot prove for certain that we are NOT dreaming right now. Why does reality need be "Now", or conscious to make Dreams Come True?

[@pequenamunekita3215]

Interesting, I used to ask myself that question as a child.

[@rodneypate1693]

Dreams could be a way our Ancestors or Spiritual Energy entities communicate with us. Sometimes dreams feel like I shifted or Quantum leaped in another dimension. Sometimes I don't dream, at rest I enter the Void. From my understanding is the Source of All things. We are One Conscious Mind.

[@johnpaulsammistretta8504]

I have warning dreams sometimes... I had at least 5 experiences where I dreamt of something that has happened to me days later .... whenever they were bad experiences

[@javiermadingerrush8682]

I had a couple of those and it’s wild when you recognize the key points that you do remember from the dream

[@technicalcompliance1537]

I have experienced shared dreams with peoples I cohabited with. They were blown aware. I was glad they remembered

[@sleemach]

I've been a lucid dreamer since I was a kid and I grew up thinking that everyone could control their dreams. I found out in my 20's that this is not the case. 😅 I'm a naturally light sleeper and I often wonder if that, along with developing the ability to ludic dream, were self-preservation methods as ways to stay in-control of my environment and to feel safe while struggling with complex-trauma.

[@InvisiblePK]

I can feel that. When I told some uncles about my dreams, they were just shocked, and they told me that everyone can't control their dreams. After hearing that, I was also shocked. I thought that everyone could control their dreams. I didn't even know about Lucid Dreams. I thought it was natural.

[@sleemach]

@InvisiblePK Yes I had a very similar experience! It's nice to know that I'm not alone in this and it makes me very curious about whether certain people are more predisposed to lucid dreaming based on specific factors or if it's totally random 🤔

[@InvisiblePK]

@@sleemach I don’t know. It's really crazy. I also feel nice to have found someone like me. Can we talk about each other’s dreams?

[@sleemach]

@InvisiblePK tbh my dreams don't even feel like dreams, it feels like I'm just visiting different versions of myself in alternate realities 😅

[@InvisiblePK]

​@@sleemach Whoa, that's me exactly! When I dream, it's as though I'm awake. In my dream, I have near-total mental control because I am aware that I am dreaming. Would you be interested in hearing about one of my vivid dreams?

[@AliciaOnlineGameplay]

I have 3 nightmares I've dreamt over and over again since I was a child, they stopped when I turned 17 but I still remember every single detail of them. To summarize the three, one is me drowning in liquid soap and no one helping me, the second is me trying to help people being cooked alive inside a glass building (kinda like an oven but a greenhouse) and being unable to break the glass and the third steering a car that has no breaks and I cant control the gas either with friends inside and we all die 😅 the sucky thing is I know I'm dreaming in the dream and I'm desperately trying to change the outcome or wake up but I cant, no matter what I try the outcome in the dream is always the same. I never remember any "happy dreams" and as an adult I only have ptsd nightmares that I'll remember

[@Vector_Ze]

I'm 69 years old. For the past couple of years my dreams have become more vivid and memorable, especially when I nap while not actually in need of sleep (an old person thing), and that's when I have the most 'tangible' results. I find that lucid dreaming has become second nature. The semi-conscious images are photorealistic! Like nature scenes; tree branches blowing in the wind, water waves, emergent plants, mountain streams... mostly nature scenes. I can't emphasize enough, the vivid photorealism. That's the most striking thing about it. I am aware at the time that I'm dreaming. I never experienced this phenomenon when I was younger. Even though sometimes lucid, I can't form realistic human faces, I've tried. When I do try, I come up with monstrosities, nothing attractive at all, and morphing from almost normal to repulsively grotesque, grossly deformed (which generally wakes me up). Maybe a psychiatrist would say I'm a sociopath? It seems odd to me that I can't conjure up a realistic human face. The scenes of nature are awesome! I also see amazing geometric patterns, dazzlingly colourful at times, math inspired. For the first time in my life, I look forward to sleep for this reason. I look forward to dreaming! And I admit that affection for these dreams has resulted in me further sleeping beyond what I need. Still, I'm grateful for the ability to have lucid dreams, something I was never able to do when I was younger. And, the ability showed up uninvited just a few years ago. Startling, at first. I hope the next stop isn't dementia. If only I could have some photorealistic lucid dreams I no doubt had when I was 18 years old, though at 69 they probably wouldn't have the same effect. :-P

[@Badass_Brains]

Perhaps you have Aphantasia? (regarding your inability to conjure human faces in your mind's eye) 😊 Do you have any idea why the lucid dreams suddenly started? I have them on an extremely rare basis, too rare for me to detect any kind of pattern.

[@Vector_Ze]

@@Badass_Brains I don't know anything about aphantasia, a new term to me. I did a web search, and didn't find anything too clear cut that I could relate to. I don't know why I started having these vivid dreams. And, it may be completely coincidental, but they seem to have started after I had a horrible, month long experince with COVID-19 in May 2020, I nearly died. I have found that I can dream while not actually asleep. That sounds odd, I know. Do semi-conscious visions qualify as hallucinations? I am laying in bed, on the verge of sleep state, eyes closed, but not actually unconscious and I get these blazingly photorealistic images of nature scenes. Beautiful, crisp motion images. I love it, but I don't understand it, and why I've only experienced it in recent years. Still, realistic human imagery seems beyond what I can produce.

[@KathyMcCordToxaris13]

I solve problems better in my sleep. I always have. When I have had a customer whose situation was more complex, I would think about it before going to sleep & more often than not, I would wake up with a solution or at least a new perspective on the situation. When I listen to it, it serves me well

[@coachkey822]

Wow that’s crazy! I’ve said exactly the same thing and told the person in my dream that was a dream and I shook myself up and woke up. 😮

[@gadooze]

I had What-if questions, all of them are I need to go back to the past, in my life that bothered me that is answered by dream. Since then, when I got the answers, I got peace of mind.

[@joeparks3748]

I look forward to going to sleep because I’m excited about what I might dream. There are dreams from as for back as when I was 5 or 6 that I remember (I’m 47 now). I’ve had dreams where I fell in love with an imaginary person and when I woke up I missed them and still felt that love. It was very real. I see faces, smell the air, etc. some of mine feel very real. I have never had a lucid dream that know of.

[@MHarenArt]

I LOVE my dreams no matter how bizarre they are. I rarely have what you might call a nightmare, but those tend to stay with you for a while if you wake up to one. I often fall asleep to some sort of documentary or art tutorial and I do find myself in lucid dreaming. I can hear the person on the show talking, and I'm have some sort of dream that relates to what they are saying. I used to have a recurring dream, for years and years and years. It was not a pleasant dream and although I have had that dream for a VERY long time I remember it with some fair detail. I often dream my teeth are crumbling and falling out and while I'm dreaming it, it feels so real that I wake up so glad it was a dream. I also dream sometimes that I cant walk very well. I have to forcibly move my legs to take step. But I have had either one of those recently either. I've had a dream that I can remember fairly well, that I've had only twice, but it was the very same dream. Many of my dreams include work colleagues - the same ones, but in a social situation taking place in the office. When I began painting about 5 years ago I would often dream about painting and once in a while I'd have an inspiration for a painting, I'd wake up, make a note of the painting I want to do, and in the morning I'd get up and paint it. I called the series "Out of a Dream". I think there were 5 or six of them and I even sold a couple of them.. Sorry for rambling, But I'm fascinated by dreams and love talking about them. .

[@Jaybo79]

I love you, for telling the world of your experiences. For the value it may add; Today I enjoyed for a while that precious space between sleep and wakefulness, when a rising warmth fills an already safe environment , and the mind is free to exist within a place where ,to this fella at the least, lucidity and the dream state were dancing, within a volume of important new ways of thinking which the video id had streaming was talking about.

[@alanmacdonald3763]

Adepts including Christ know that consciousness is the prime field, brain a transceiver, processing both local and non local signals. Many, especially quantum physicists now accept this. THIS is what Christ calls the kingdom of heaven within, the prime state of existence. Adepts train to subdue local inherited reptilian memory, local mammalian learned memory to stream from source. Continuous light bulb moments, hence halos around head in images. Dreams are daily status reports from the field telling us how to come into alignment with it. They can seem weird at times as local signals are used to represent non local events. Meeting with guides etc. Very similar to out of the body experiences at near death. Brain does not generate Consciousness, it is the prime field of existence. Adepts know this, publish and local tribes turn it into memory based (mammalian) rituals. Not genuine self-realization. We are fractals of non local consciousness having local experiences, a feed back mechanism to source. When we become enlightened, we extend consciousness.

[@kishfoo]

I was able to collapse the walls and allow myself to lucid dream while being awake by controlled sleep deprevation and cough medicine induced half-sleep. It gets dangerous when those walls collapse past a certain point but the experience can also be very informative. I've also listened to Brian Green lectures on string theory and particle physics while sleeping and I do believe that a lot of the information is retained, although not directly. I find that listening to educational content during afternoon naps is the best for critical thinking.

[@CaedmonOS]

Sounds like acid but less illegal and more damaging to the body

[@CaedmonOS]

Or some kind of drug I don't really know I don't take drugs

[@kishfoo]

@@CaedmonOS No, its codine based and not psychedelic. It puts you in a half-sleep state while the caffine in it keeps you from falling asleep. I wouldn't suggest it unless it was in a safe clinical experiment environment. I did 2 weeks with only about an average of 10 hours of sleep and was able to experience some time altering lucid dreams. I was writing a novel and dreamt hours of the scenes within, in a semi-lucid state, but when I popped back, only a few minutes had gone by in realtime. The walls between reality and the subconscious collapsed and I ended up in the psyche ward for about a month. It took me 3 days to rebuild the walls between hallucinations and reality. And I believe I had a limited experience of what insanity is like. If we could pull people back and listen to their stories, profound stuff.

[@kishfoo]

@@QUICKSILVER369 No. It started out like reading a very visual book. Next thing I know, I'm totally immersed and watching scenes with people conversing, I can fly across vast distances, don't have a body though. If I look down, I would just flip in that direction. And no arms to lift up and see. An hour or two would go by but when I snapped back to reality, only minutes had.

[@kishfoo]

@@QUICKSILVER369 In one experience I had to hold a spot as the universe expanded, guardian of that particular point in space-time. It was ultra cold and I couldn't move. I don't know why but when I came to, I imagine it to have been 40000 years. But mostly, I created scenes for the novel I'm writing. I blanked out and wrote a book in three weeks. But, like a dream, super inconsistent. 3 years and 5 edits later, still polishing it.

[@lousiannegirlatheart]

My mom became blind about 7 years ago. She is in her mid 80's and lived a very full and active life. All she wants to do now is sleep. She has vivid dreams and says she drifts when she is awake 'sitting in the presence of God. So bittersweet.

[@SuperdutySupermanFjb]

I'm a very lucid dreamer and I always wake up and remember many details of my dreams. It's mind blowing the dreams I'll have.

[@NewMessage]

I've had several lucid dreams, and I love it more than anything else in my life. The trouble is, I get so excited that I'm dreaming... I wake myself up. So while I've had many, they never last more than a few minutes.

[@bujodrag]

Just relax and follow the story, it's like a movie. Be an observer.

[@ClaireDelSol]

I’ve found I can get back into the dream if I don’t have to get up, am still tired, and start indulging in the content of it again… brining it forward with my imagination until I fall into a light or deeper sleep again.

[@blijebij]

Dreaming and waking state both have their balance, a dominating EEg wave signature, For dreaming those are linked to theta waves, for waking beta. When you have a lucid dream, that is like a hybrid state, a kind of inbetween both. What you need to practice in rl is meditation, a meditative state where you produce enough alpha waves (no thoughts and being purely in surrendering state, calm)so you block a to high ammount of beta brain activity (else you wake up) and then when you have a ld , tune in into this meditative state again. Your lucid dream wont end then so fast. I even let part of fall a sleep inside my ld, so i split myself innerly, iam witness aware , yet also a sleep then lds can go on very long.

[@healthdecodedwithaltaf3647]

Dreaming I think is your mind thinking freely compared with when your awake you are concentrating ✨

[@onsightitify]

You're close! It's more like when you are not concentrating, but in your Default Mode Network (day dreaming, and ruminating). They are just visual representations of the "monkey mind". Deep sleep is more like meditation, when the "monkey mind" is turned off.

[@shekharharsha1540]

In an program on 'Dream', it was informed by scientist that clearing memories of places/people who are disconnected for a long, give rise of their images/stories in dreams. I have noted it in my experiences of my own so as shared by my closed ones.

[@meridianheights6255]

Just now, I woke up from a nap-dream (I seem to have extra vivid dreams while napping) and as I contemplated the dream I realized I haven't learned anything new about dreams in very long time. So I did a search and found this video. Great conversation. I like Brian Greene. I haven't seen a ton of his work, but every time he pops up, in an interesting conversation. Great video!

[@danielengsvang3126]

I have had Lucid dreams in which i can modify the landscape at will with full control but not the other persons/beings in it, and i have had lucid dreams in which the landscape is already set and i can't do anything about it but instead with 100% control interact like i do in normal life. I can do pirouettes or take my shoe of and dip my foot in a river just because i wanted to feel how "dream water" felt like and how it compares to ordinary water. I can talk with other beings in there and learn strange stuff about their world because they know that i am not from there because i use to tell them so when i present myself as Daniel being in a lucid dream. I can go IN and OUT of the dream with full control and even stop in between so that i can both see the "dreamscape" and move my feets at the same time just for fun and then enter again. It is insanely interesting really when you can walk away and when you come back the stuff is still there just as it was when i left. I blame it on my medication (Baclofen) because one common side effect is dreams that are More real than ordinary waking state and life. Sweet dreams and cheers from Sweden :)

[@meows_and_woof]

It helps me to recall my dream after I wake up if I think of some references. I often see my dog and cats in my dreams as well as me driving my car, so I start recalling it and most of the time it works I manage to recall lots of details

[@acook9746]

Wow. Did not know there was an actual term to these dreams. I truly have them A LOT!!!! And I do mean a lot. Lucid dreams that is. Thank you for this panel and conversation. I will have to begin to additionally link into them. And I sleep for about 3hrs a night, since college. I can hit REM sleep rather quickly. My days go much better when I recall my dreams and when I am active within the dreams; as in knowing I'm dreaming, but navigating therein and even attempting to determine what happens in the dreams. Thanks for this.

[@Sadovnik-XC]

Mindfulness is not the realization that you are dreaming, it is a lucid dream, but a conscious action in a dream when you realize that you need to write a letter and start looking for a pen, realizing that there will be nothing to write without it. An even more difficult level of awareness of actions in a dream is when you follow this pen into the room from which you recently left. It is difficult because it is always very difficult to return to the previous dream plot. This is a different level of awareness in a dream, when you can restore the previous plot. Whoever has tried it knows why. Well, the nightmares. They stop if you manage to defeat a monster or a stalker in a dream. Not to run away from him, but to consciously fight with him and of course win. At the same time, you do not even need to realize that you are sleeping. The main thing is to act consciously in a dream. After that, the fears can leave forever.

[@dee-deelove9310]

I have very vivid morning dreams just before I wake up, I always remember them and I write them down straight away and focus on the symbols not the story of the dream…..doing this helps me to see what I’m not addressing in my life and even sometimes how I feel about something…..it’s really helpful to me and I live my life by these dreams

[@kristytrys5448]

I have dreams I can remember them when I wake up but most of them I forget after a while

[@kiflaiasfaha8607]

@@kristytrys5448

[@kiflaiasfaha8607]

It happens to me. I forget my dreams quick. I dream once and I forget quick. Why?

[@SeasonsOFcolors]

I’m for ever dreaming . Like I’m at work and dreaming when I’m awake .

[@Shellfish824]

As a Lucid Dreamer, This is very helpful, I only know the very basics of dream science and Lucid Dream Science (Lucid Science) and this helps me clear up a lot of misconceptions that I myself have made/told myself.

[@nbeizaie]

The lady is stubborn and naïve (maybe it is because of naïve scientists like her we are in the situation we are in now). I agree with the guys about the regulations. I actually got a couple of family members to watch and we discussed it and we all agreed with the guys about regulations.

[@TheRogueRockhound]

1:07:00 this conversation is a Futurama episode. S01 E06 Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?" Fry: "Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!"

[@danhyatt2206]

lucid dreaming is an awesome experience! I like to fly when I'm lucid dreaming - it's so real - I feel the wind in my face, blowing my hair, high detail and full color, highly invigorating, and I remember lots of details when I wake up.

[@DirtyLilHobo]

I was working on a very complex software problem. After weeks of study and experimentation, I dreamed the solution and upon waking wrote the programming as I had dreamed it and it worked!

[@rain0344]

Whenever I try to explain a regular dream and find myself lacking proper terms to describe what I saw in my dream, I then realize it’s because I’m really trying to explain what I was feeling, the emotions I was feeling during the dream. I also seem to experience dreams as an expectator sometimes, like a third person camera following the dream. Lastly, I have not had lucid dreams yet, but I had a dream involving a particular house (with different architecture to the houses in my country) and then many years later I travel to a diff country, pass by in a car and I saw this house just like in my random dream 🤯 in my dream I visited the inside and found out there were bones hidden behind the basement’s walls.

[@ClaireDelSol]

Sometimes in my lucid dreams, I move into the spectator role to change the narrative. Like, once something so bad was about to happen I just didn’t want to deal with the trauma so I turned into the narrator and fully changed the scene to move the dream on. I think I even said out loud ( in the dream) “No, it’s not gonna happen like this.” It kept the same kinda vibe after, but saved a lot of lives in the process hehe. You may be closer to having a lucid dream than you think 😅

[@rain0344]

wow, that sounds like a cool super power to have 😂 thanks for sharing your experience.

[@montanacrone8984]

I’ve always been a prolific dreamer. At age 3 I was very confused about dream and reality. We tend to dream in metaphors and puns. And for me, it helps to recall the dream by telling it out loud. It would make sense. Solving problems, gaining a better understanding of a situation.

[@Badass_Brains]

I must try that :) I rarely remember my dreams.

[@kerenkabakov128]

Me too! I have repeating dreams about certain situations and then it comes true. It can happen in a day a month or year ! But it happens. It’s crazy, how can it be?

[@markymarkdetroit5840]

Dreaming is like putting your experiences in DVD format and pressing shuffle on a 100 disc DVD player.

[@CyberThug1080i]

That's probably where that saying come from. "I can do this job etc in my sleep."

[@reginalewilliams4472]

I absolutely taught my grandchildren to recognize that they are dreaming when something bad is happening in their dream and to come up with ways to change the dream without waking up. It didn't seem hard at all. maybe these grandkids are or were just pretty special.

[@carafizzy2848]

I had a dream/nightmare journal. It was great everytime I woke up id grab my journal and write down what I had experienced and the date and time. For some time I had stopped dreaming I thought it was difficult for me to recall anything and even yawn for about a year or 2. But I think it was just life changes and stresses now looking back, I think I'm going to start up my journal again.

[@lawnmower4884]

When I was younger I woke up from a dream, got dressed for school, walked up to the bus stop and wondered why nobody else was waiting for the school bus. Then somebody walking a dog said to me, 'you do realise it's Sunday today' so I sheepishly walked back home feeling rather stupid. Then I woke up in a real sweat because I had dreamt all of that, I hadn't woke up at all,, I had dreamt it!

[@garypuckettmuse]

Great program -- absolutely loved all the dream like visuals. Beautifully done you artists who worked on this. Beautiful. And woven in to the programs perfectly. Thank you artists on WSF!

[@matt_cummins28]

For years now I've been telling myself that I have vivid dreams but that I am not a lucid dreamer. But after listening to the descriptions in this it is clear to me that I am a lucid dreamer. I frequently (pretty much every night) have very vivid dreams that I can remember (up to years later), that I have "control over" or can ignore things like gravity, I can strategize within a dream and I can "choose" to have a dream (to some extent) and I can tune myself back into the same dream narrative after waking up and then (after a break of 15 mins or so) going back to sleep. I've also frequently met "guru's" or "teachers" of various kinds. In the best cases these are entirely benign "mother goddess" figures; at other times they have a much more dubious role, even a frightening one, but they do hold mysterious and eye-opening knowledge. This is a fascinating little documentary/discussion. Thanks very much.

[@geoffmorgan9025]

Cool brain bro

[@melidsalopez3231]

Wow fascinating! Could you share some of these experiences of these dream beings? The great ones the frightening ones, would love to read your stories ❤

[@matt_cummins28]

I'm planning a sort of audio blog of some of the stories. Some are quite wild.

[@hochminus-iy7ro]

Very interesting. A question regarding controling gravity: I've noticed that my brain doesn't like to let my fly freely when the environment is very detailed (like 'urban' with lots of moving objects or just very detailed/grained). For example I can fly freely and even fast but not over an building/pyramid or something, because then it would need to 'render' very much stuff for wide/far viewing (at least this was my explanation after getting upset on this limit while dreaming). My brain then forces more real gravity and I can't fly anymore. Once I figured out, that when I accept/force 'low details' I can fly very fast and far, but it's very hard and my brain somehow doesn't like this 'break of dream logic/constrain'. Do you maybe experience similar and have some tip/strategy on overcoming this constraints of 'dream logic'?

[@NashPotatoesOutdoorShow]

Great discussion guys...thanks for sharing! I've noticed that I remember my dreams more often when I'm on a low-carb diet...

[@TimGreig]

Meaning higher fat intake? Or protein?

[@PKTraceur]

For the past 5 years, my dreams haven’t told me the future, but they’ve alerted me to things in the present, things I weren’t aware of, things I ought to know, ought to do or say, things I’m doing wrong. If you pay attention to your dreams and look up the meanings of each detail in your dream, they will guide you. Recently they warned me about something dire, and I didn’t take it seriously.

[@God-ld6ll]

Rarely w/out using any prescribed methods, i accidentally get lucid dreams seemingly fairly common. Believe it or not, it seems not to be restricted to non-fiction. Like on three occasions met the western-style dragon of which one landed right in front of me. Ordinary conversations with distinctively non-humans too.

[@edenb329]

daydreaming leads to understanding how telepathy might activate

[@tixmeelkurneex9706]

I have had a good number of dreams where I died, I was an ancient warrior in one of them and as I was in a battle my enemy overpowered me and I knew I was dying so I let it happen, it was so interesting as I waited to see what would happen in that transition from life to death

[@Neutrois]

I woke up from a nap to this playing... Interesting. Great stuff to hear while sleeping.

[@alexb6695]

Brain Greene, is the best. Love this guy. The way he delivers information, just amazing. Sounds, like a really good guy in general too. Can’t get enough of this ‘show’.

[@w.alan.21]

+1. This is the first non-physics video I've seen him do. I'm sure he studies lots of subjects..

[@stephen-paulortiz768]

Commas used wrong.

[@lawrencegoldworm960]

I think I know how these researchers put their subjects to sleep. They talk.

[@cindyclay1750]

Brian Greene covers some very intriguing topics! 🤗 A better view of dreams than I have heard before! 😉

[@navreetkaur7]

Thank you brian for this level of free education and discussion

[@neil6477]

There was a BBC programme in the 70s in which two-way communication was achieved with a lucid dreamer. Can't remember what it was called, but it shows that this work was done nearly 50 years ago.

[@julietthomas7810]

Like remote viewing?

[@neil6477]

@@julietthomas7810 Not really Juliet - rather it's something that I think is far more interesting. In the BBC show, they had people who claimed to be able to enter the lucid state at will during a dream, i.e. become fully conscious in a dream - so conscious that they can control what occurs in the dream. This was tested in various ways, and the evidence they gathered was good. However, the main experiment (these were done in a sleep laboratory in London) involved two people who could both become lucid. The two people arranged to meet in a dream. They chose a place they both knew well (a park in Oxford) and the experimenters gave one of the people a message to give to the other when/if they met. The other person then repeated the message when they awoke. (If memory serves me correctly, the people were in different parts of the UK during the night's sleep). Sure enough, the two people met, and the message was given. It wasn't perfect, but what was reported was close enough to suggest that something had been transmitted in the dream. This raises huge questions. For example, as one of the dreamers said, 'In whose dream did we meet?'. Or, do dreams occur in some 'other' place and not inside our own heads? Also, what about the other people we all meet in dreams - are they conscious, or not? When one of the dreamers became lucid, he had a conversation with someone else in the dream. Everything seemed normal until the person he was speaking to claimed to be as conscious as the dreamer was! Huge questions with very important implications!

[@keevinrassi7010]

Wonderful and insightful, thank you... I miss my REM cycles, it's as if I'm missing an utterly important portion of my conscious recollection without my dreams throughout my insomnia... It's a bit creepy thinking about subconscious marketing while sleeping, which seems to be getting closer to hypnotic states of mind where one is more susceptible to suggestion (to each their own here though). Always good to be properly informed... Unaltered hypnotic states...?...🤔

[@mastergrief3134]

I used to have dreams as a kid wake up not remembering the dream completely but remembering a blurry image. Now that I’m 18-19 I’ll have gone on my day to day basic shit and have seen some of the same images I’ve seen in my dreams as a kid and it reallyyyy catches me off guard sometimes. Like I’ve had major deja vu at work. Makes me really think everything happens for a reason in a logical way

[@BorSam]

I hate dreams. When I had a dream, I felt like I was not sleeping at all. But dreams are special in that they help me remember things that I have forgotten.

[@jemadamson2715]

Ive definitely gotten artistic ideas in dreams a couple times. And definitely cool scifi book ideas

[@nicktaylor935]

Not only do I have lucid dreams on a regular basis but I also have had out of body experience. It indeed is true and anyone can learn to do it you just need to do the right things for practicing.

[@GQ-yj5oy]

You are right. I done psychology at uni and they learned us how to do it. Certain people are more susceptible to it, such as those who can get lost in a book for hours.

[@nicktaylor935]

@@GQ-yj5oy right on

[@catrinab888]

I dream all 4 stages. Can't remember the name for them right now😁. I'm the narrator, the participator, the director and the watcher all at the same time. I'm aware but mostly I've noticed when I'm coming out of the deep dream when something triggers my " conciousness". I've fallen asleep or dozed off plenty and wakeup and hurry up and draw or write everything I remember. I've received messages for my future and voices have called me to wake me up as in my higher self. A woman's voice called my name softly and alerted me " she's coming hurry shes on her way". I call my mother and tell her my dreams frequently to help trigger or decipher. Yet I believe I am what they call dream walkers🤷🏾‍♀️. I often assist others and mostly children as like a conscience saving them. Now Ive heard the association of dealing with issues in my life, but nah it's so random compared to my physical reality to emotions and feelings. As well I'm a messenger. I often relay future events, but I have not yet honed in on specific timeframes. When you come into self you become more connected to everything and becomes easy to hear and see physics and the arts intuitively. I have many journals that are calculations of math, physics, and other sciences that I have never study until I had dreams that tells me or leads me to research. As I was but educated as an Information specialist and only worked in customer service n banking, I rarely n barely know nor understand most of it. I've thought of going to Wash U to undergo a dream or psychological review.

[@craigbeaufait5278]

I've experienced dreams of places I've never been only to experience a deja vu months later more so when I was younger. Also have had experiences where I can feel a disturbance of others, where I can name place and those involved in real time hundreds of miles away. When extremely tired I've answered the phone, and had no recollection of the conversation, and yet the recipient was unaware I was sleeping. Dreams baffle me

[@michelleelsom6827]

I dream every night, but cannot remember them for more than a few seconds after I wake. Now I have learned that if I cannot sleep (overactive brain) I try to recall one of the dreams that I do remember, suddenly all the pevious dreams come flooding back one by one, then I must fall straight asleep as I can no longer remember being awake. I have done this several times now & It always seems to work & sends me to sleep.