One time I dreamt that I was black,and I was getting married to a gorgeous black woman but right before the ceremony started some guy ran in and screamed "Stop he's an imposter!" and then he literally ripped the black off of me and I was standing there white as can be.Everyone gasped. I paniced and scooped my bride into my arms and flew out of the church bursting through the cieling. I then methodically began testing my new flight ability. I realized i could steer, accelerate/decelerate , rise or fall by adjusting the angle of my arms and legs. Superman had it all wrong. I had no idea where my wife went, She had disappeared inexplicably, so I became depressed and landed in my yard. I then screamed at the universe and a giant gamma ray burst out of my mouth and blew a hole through jupiter. It was one of the most awesome things I've ever experienced.
The one time I ever had a lucid dream was once when I was little. I figured out I could fly in my dream, but it turns out I just gained the ability to roll out of bed.
I had a dream about a girl, and now I am dating someone who looks EXACTLY LIKE HER. in every way. and her name was Noelle. my girlfriend wrote a novel at the same time that i had that dream, and made the main character about herself and named her Noelle. creepy.
+Melancholy i too had a vivid dream about a girl and i met her 3 years later and my dream was spot on how she looked what she liked but i didn't think much of it at the time until i met her and everything i dreamed came back to me. she did find it freaky how much i knew about her and that no one else had known. hanged around with me a lot. but not as a girlfriend, just amazed as i was. But it was a nice experience, i hope to have another dream like that someday.
"her name is noelle, i had a dream about her, she rings my bell, i got gym class in half an hour" this is a song which fits your comment perfectly hahaha
One time I had the whole naked in public dream but then I realised I was dreaming so I decided to turn into a dragon and fly around burning stuff. Being a dragon is much more important to me than anything else.
+Noelle Pope-George I haven't gotten there to control my dreams fully, but instead I had tamed a tiger, had sex with my crush, went to a basketball game where the police and the Rockets beat up a kid pointing a lazer at Harden also I walked down the street naked. Pretty crazy
+MaeMae II you have lunch, if you want it is entirely up to you to take a nap instead after eating a quick meal. i had this one guy in class one year that went to sleep under a desk almost each lunch break.
+Cola Phoenix We can't sleep during our lunchtime... We get sent to ALC (Alternative Learning Center- basically in-school suspension for a day) if the wrong teacher catches you..
“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.' If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen. They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.' So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.” ― George Carlin, Brain Droppings
Because if you remembered lying down and looking at your ceiling for 5-8hrs, you weren't actually sleeping! Your brain shuts down/rests leaving only the subconscious awake to keep your vitals going... basically.
+Jarib Vanegas This is because the brain is forming very few new memories. You don't remember laying down for several hours. The few memories that do form are of dreams (though most dreams are forgotten). If you don't remember anything while sleeping, then you don't remember it taking 8 hours.
Ana Paulino Naranjo Just playing devil's advocate here... how can you claim to remember everything when you would never know that which you can't remember? A bit of an oxymoron! xD
One of my favorite dreams was very very short but I was in the ISS and looked over/down to earth and it was THE ABSOLUTELY MOST BEAUTIFUL IMAGE I have ever seen, so much so that I started tearing up and when I woke up I still had tears in my eyes and I felt so incredible. I was in a good mood & felt happy. I can still picture it, and the amount of joy I felt is indescribable
I've been watching a LOT of do rescue videos, and I had a vivid dream about rescuing a whole bunch of dogs. Any dream about dogs is a good dream regardless of how weird it gets. Like dogs driving around on golf carts.
When I was younger, I had a dream that I was a Pokemon Ranger (dont ask) and I was in some kind of weird Pokemon Ranger Olympics. I had to carry a torch to the brazier, but the torch was actually a stick of string cheese (please, just dont ask) and had to carry it across the city, and I was doing Parkour and shit, but then I fell through a roof into a Suave deodorant commercial (just...XD) and then I just continued parkouring and I made it to the stadium place and I was trying to look cool, so I took a bite out of the string cheese. But it wasn't string cheese anymore, it was deoderant, and somone in the audience pointed it out, but I kept up the act and continued eating it even though it was fucking disgusting and tasted like poison and there were these nasty ass fragrance crystals on it. So I took the deodorant to the brazier and chucked it in, and I waved to the crowd, with all this nasty shit in my mouth. Then I collapsed on the stage and barfed everywhere. Funny thing is, when I woke up, I could fucking taste deodorant in my mouth.
Dreaming is a process to manage your experiences, so the dream seems to be sort of a replay of previous experiences. Your memories are experiences you had while awake and conscious. We remember some dreams because some part of our waking brain is engaged and so able to "experience" the dream and so form a memory of the dream. There are many cultural traditions centered around training the brain to reliably recall dreams, including the ability to more frequently enter and participate in lucid waking dreams where the dreamer is fully aware that they are in a dream and are even able to make choices that effect the course of the dream. These traditions tend to view dreams as connections to the spirit realm or at least as fully spiritual (read deeply meaningful) experiences that can be used to receive wisdom or even insights into the future. Of course, our modern popular culture yields many books that seek to help people learn to recall and interpret their dreams towards many different ends, sometimes in an effort to return to our more spiritual / tribal social roots. Many average folks routinely remember their daily dreams, while others, like me, almost never recall even one a year. Much of this simply has to do with your personal sleep patterns and whether you are likely to cross those zones from dreams to consciousness while a dream is under way. I know that I dream each night, I just never remember any given dream. I also tend to sleep pretty soundly though the entire night for an average on 6-7 hours and often wake well rested. My wife, however, requires 8-9 hours and sometimes does not sleep well. Everybody is different. It's really only a concern should it create problems in your life. There are medical professionals who work with sleep issues who can usually help with such problems.
Dreaming is a process to manage your experiences, so the dream seems to be sort of a replay of previous experiences. Your memories are experiences you had while awake and conscious. We remember some dreams because some part of our waking brain is engaged and so able to "experience" the dream and so form a memory of the dream. There are many cultural traditions centered around training the brain to reliably recall dreams, including the ability to more frequently enter and participate in lucid waking dreams where the dreamer is fully aware that they are in a dream and are even able to make choices that effect the course of the dream. These traditions tend to view dreams as connections to the spirit realm or at least as fully spiritual (read deeply meaningful) experiences that can be used to receive wisdom or even insights into the future. Of course, our modern popular culture yields many books that seek to help people learn to recall and interpret their dreams towards many different ends, sometimes in an effort to return to our more spiritual / tribal social roots. Many average folks routinely remember their daily dreams, while others, like me, almost never recall even one a year. Much of this simply has to do with your personal sleep patterns and whether you are likely to cross those zones from dreams to consciousness while a dream is under way. I know that I dream each night, I just never remember any given dream. I also tend to sleep pretty soundly though the entire night for an average on 6-7 hours and often wake well rested. My wife, however, requires 8-9 hours and sometimes does not sleep well. Everybody is different. It's really only a concern should it create problems in your life. There are medical professionals who work with sleep issues who can usually help with such problems.
Dreaming is a process to manage your experiences, so the dream seems to be sort of a replay of previous experiences. Your memories are experiences you had while awake and conscious. We remember some dreams because some part of our waking brain is engaged and so able to "experience" the dream and so form a memory of the dream. There are many cultural traditions centered around training the brain to reliably recall dreams, including the ability to more frequently enter and participate in lucid waking dreams where the dreamer is fully aware that they are in a dream and are even able to make choices that effect the course of the dream. These traditions tend to view dreams as connections to the spirit realm or at least as fully spiritual (read deeply meaningful) experiences that can be used to receive wisdom or even insights into the future. Of course, our modern popular culture yields many books that seek to help people learn to recall and interpret their dreams towards many different ends, sometimes in an effort to return to our more spiritual / tribal social roots. Many average folks routinely remember their daily dreams, while others, like me, almost never recall even one a year. Much of this simply has to do with your personal sleep patterns and whether you are likely to cross those zones from dreams to consciousness while a dream is under way. I know that I dream each night, I just never remember any given dream. I also tend to sleep pretty soundly though the entire night for an average on 6-7 hours and often wake well rested. My wife, however, requires 8-9 hours and sometimes does not sleep well. Everybody is different. It's really only a concern should it create problems in your life. There are medical professionals who work with sleep issues who can usually help with such problems.
I once had a dream that I was obama who was riding an albino deer, and was a leader of some forest tribe. Some huge kingdom was choping down the forest, so I had to go talk to the ice queen (who I think was the leader or something of the kingdom) I then took her to the forest to show her how beutifull the forest was, but we were attacked by a bear, so I pulled out a magical blue banana and it blew up. She thanked me for saving her life and granted me one favor, so I asked for infinite favors, then the ice king (if you don't know who that is, LOOK IT UP) swooped down and froze my deer and my banana, so I started running towards him hoping to punch him, but a plasma sword randomly fell from the sky, so I grabbed it and sliced him in half, and babies came out. we then collected the babies and gave them to all the people in the kingdom who wanted babies but couldn't have any. then I woke up. It was the weirdest dream I've ever had.
This is gonna sound weird, but am I the only one that if I dream about a girl, I wake up with a major crush on her that is usually gone by the end of the day?
+Kate Pierce Same here, but the scary thing is, I can change the outcome. The first time, I was successful in escaping. The next, I was successful too. But the third time, I was caught, my horse was thrown high up in the air, and I woke up.
I love lucid dreaming. It's an experience like nothing before. Flying is so much fun. Especially when you can feel the wind on your face and see the world I created below it. I have had only a few here and there but I wish I could have them everynight.They are really fun
Yes, yes! They say gaming increases your ability to lucid dream, you know, because you're controlling something for long periods of time. So, one night, I was able to web swing like Spiderman!!!!! Aiming my hand up, watching the webline fly up and away perfectly towards my target. Feeling the web materialize in my arm and spool outwards, felt like a tickle. Hanging on and swooping through the air, then realizing you have to shoot another one, ooooooh, MAN! One of the most amazing experiences in my life. If only we could lucid dream whenever we wanted...oh my.
I can only remember one time that I had a lucid dream, and I spent it wisely by making a massive candy/cake world with jell-o lakes and swedish fish (and an infinite stomach), I also brought all my dead cats back and and tons of cat toys and got to hang out with them. I just wish I had remember to fly...
I had a close friend who had lucid dreams all the time. He told me the main requirement for lucid dreaming was being well rested, getting lots of sleep. That counts me out. He was working with Stephen LaBerge (who wrote books about lucid dreaming) on making a mask that they hoped could be used to train people how to lucid dream. The idea was that the mask would have sensors on it that could sense the eye movements, and software that would determine that the wearer was in REM sleep. Then the mask would flash a red light repeatedly over the retina of the eye. Their hope was that the flashing light would be incorporated into the dream in some way. So students who wanted to become lucid dreamers would train themselves that whenever they saw a flashing red light, they would ask themselves "Am I dreaming?", then do a dream check, like making sure your watch is showing something like the correct time, or looking at a magazine cover or inside a book to see if you can read the text. In dreams, there is not enough computing power in the brain to simulate text, so seeing "text" means what you are experiencing is real.
Within the past year I've had around 20 dreams of being able to fly and most are different. --- One I had recently I could feel a type of wind pressure or resistance in the palms of my hands and I could use that to fly. --- Another I was standing in front of a wall and I opened my mouth and started saying AAHHH and the vibrations of my voice allowed me to fly --- I remember one where I was leaping over cars in a mall parking lot and when I got into the mall I was able to fly around and control my decent. --- The most specific one I had, I was out in a field and I was literally testing the limits of my flight, I'd fly up a bit and come down, then go up a bit more until it became kind of scary then come down, and I repeated this until I was in full flight controlling every aspect. The BEST thing about my dreams of flight is that I can Feel them. It's not like I just see it, I feel the control, I feel the lift, the rush of the ascent and decent, I feel the wind against my skin, like a roller coaster, it's the most phenomenal feeling. --- For those having trouble remembering your dreams, it's a skill that gets better with practice. Have something next to your bed to record what you remember as soon as you wake up, even if it's just a little bit. The more you do it the more you'll remember. Sometimes in the morning I'll remember a little snip-it and record it, and as the day goes on I'll remember most of it. I tell ya, some of the dreams I've had are better than any movie I've ever seen. ---- But it is kinda scary when what you recorded in a dream happens several days, weeks, or months down the road and seems like Deja Vu. For me, it seems to be rather insignificant things though, like I'll be talking to a friend about a reason for a traffic jam, and when we hit the reason, I'll be like, "Whoa, Deja Vu". It always reminds me of The Matrix when they say Deja Vu is a glitch in the system.
I've been subscribed to SciShow since the beginning, but sometimes it's nice just to go back through and watch some of the episodes (this usually happens when I'm out of books to read/listen to for a day or two). I'm equally surprised by how much I remember and how much I forgot.
+Esosa Uhunsere me to. i had the fucking weirdest experience ever when that happened. first my dream mother was crying because i wanted to go out the dream and she said she would never see me again and after that al is saw was a computer screen and then something was on the screen what said, if you want to go out of this dream press yes if not press no. then i thought really hard about moving the mouse to yes and it worked i clicked it and i waked up. WTF BRAIN.
+Naomi Chin A Pauw LMFAO, wow that was something. I remember reading about someone who after entering a lucid dream, gathered all his dream characters together and he told them they were all a part of his imagination, then the dream characters started pleading asking him not to wake up because they would all die if he did lol. but your experience with the computer screen is definitely a unique experience. I don't think any of the strange dream experiences could hold a candle to yours.
The mind when it is Dreaming is more connected to the collective unconscious where inspirations and all new ideas and inventions come from. When we are dreaming it is easier to see that we are not in control, that there is an outside influence or unconscious mind that is in control, that keeps our heart beating and regulates are breathing when we are unconscious. Some people are more awake when they sleep then when they are sleep and are awake. For the first time in mankind's history we can Know the truth as it relates to conscious life. Search *_Truth Contest_* and read the top entry called The Present.
I disagree man. Why give so much credit to a "collective unconscious". Inspiration and dreams come from all over the place. I'm a thinker and a doer; I draw influence and ideas from life. Why is it that people have so little faith in an individuals ability, that some wacko always has to attribute it to some higher plane or being? Dreams and hallucinations are awesome, it's easy to get carried away and think that you've just parted some ethereal curtain, but there is a science behind it. We've also known for quite some time what controls our heart rate and breathing and it has absolutely nothing to do with the "collective unconscious". "Some people are more awake when they sleep then when they are sleep and are awake." Seriously some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard. Stop trying to sound insightful. I have been lucid dreaming from a young age. Lucid dreaming is all about control. Learn to control your path in the dream world and navigating life is all the easier. If you feel you are not in control than that is the nature of your own outlook on life. The real Ansel Adams would probably smack you for using his name.
I have to find a job, finish a technical course, keep going through college and find sex. But apparently to my brain getting free hot dogs forever is my top priority according to my dreams.
Question: Why do sometimes I have a dream that later occurs in real life? Like, it told the future. For me (I don't know about others), it's probably a non-REM dream, since it's really boring and it only seems like a clip, but why does it happen? Am I just having crazy deja vu (and yes I watched the deja vu video)?
Because your brain likes to see patterns where there are none. It's not that you're dreaming something and then it happens, it's that something happens and then your brain changes the dream to match.
ketherga In addition to this, our brains evolved to be semi-proficient future prediction devices, and brains that could analyze patterns and derive future scenarios were more successful, thus propagated. While your brain is making connections and patterns about your life, it can make predictions about future events. Its a roll of the dice whether the dream you remember is an event that happens. And in over 600,000 views, and probably 500,000 unique viewers, this is completely to be expected.
I fell asleep during Government class the other day and dreamed I was in a much pleasanter classroom listening to my teacher give a lecture on Gerrymandering - which is what he was doing in reality, but in a much more drab classroom.
I had a dream that I remember so clearly, probably during REM. I won't go into it to much but me and my friend heard a killer was out and jokingly hid in the bathroom. We then decided who ever could stay in here longer one. First I told her to get food and she started screaming and banging the door. Dream me decided to be real me and thought she was joking before finally letting her in and seeing a guy with a ski mask shooting at her. The main thing I rember is dream me thinking 'God that guy is such a terrible shot. He really sucks at shooting people who are against the door and can't move to much'
interesting short talk! lucid dreamer here! there was a period of time where I had a dream of an older version of myself living an idealised life with a partner whom I can never see the face clearly. And it was like living another life in my subconsciousness or like watching reality tv during my sleep every night. it was really cool how i could control on things turned out! Maybe my subconsciousness wanted me to feel true happiness. :D
Corrie Jones, well, for myself, it happens naturally. whilst dreaming, when I myself is in the dream, I can control my actions in the dream itself, it's that vivid! and then this continues everyday...
I had a really lifelike dream last night that my mom was dying, I was failing at school, and my friends had disappeared-- although I was also on pretty powerful meds from my surgery
I think that would be a dream with somewhat simple translations. They all seem like things you could be generally worried about consciously or subconsciously. Your mother's health and safety, grades, and friendship or abandonment. Nothing bad, just things that you could be concerned with or insecure about. I have a lot of them. :)
Ok, so last night I had this dream where I woke up an hour later than I was supposed to. I woke up from that dream and found that my alarm was set for an hour later than the time it was supposed to be set. It was like my dream was trying to warn me. Any explanations?
I think that dreams can often tell you something you already know, but that you may not be aware of. In your situation you probably knew deep down that your alarm was set wrong, but you didn't have access to that information conscientiously. During your sleep your sub-conscience must have realized that having your alarm set wrong was a really bad thing, so it through up the information for you to register conscientiously. Basically, its just the same as remembering something, just in CRAZY DREAM FORM.
I would put it this way, when you're dreaming your brain is sorting through memories to establish what's important and what's not. As it gets rid of lots of information that's not important, it comes across something that is and acts upon it, such as "Oh, I forgot to change my alarm back! That's important! Keep thinking it!", like finding a cheque inbetween some magazines you're thinking of throwing out. You'd want to forget the magazines and cash the cheque right away.
I once had a dream that I was Neji Hyuga and then Captain Falcon ran me over in his trademark vehicle and I was eaten by a wolf spider the size of a house. kthx
4:37 "People often report dreaming about, kind of, boring stuff." Once I had a boring dream about a Watchmojo video my brain had made up. Right after I woke up, I remembered other dreams more vividly than the made-up Watchmojo video because Watchmojo is VERY boring and completely forgettable.
Once, I was dreaming that I was on a long and boring roadtrip, with nothing but plains around the road.... And I couldn't wake up. ... I was even thinking that it was boring, in my dream. (the funny thing is that earlier in that dream, it was awesome. I was sort in a war against machines... Sort of like in the Terminator future setting).
I had to start a new heart medication and had some of the most realistic, violent dreams of my life. My cardiologist said it was definitely a side effect of the medication. Thank goodness it only lasted a couple of days. I wouldn't be able to handle those types of dreams all the time. I was actually afraid to fall asleep, they were so intense and would stay with me emotionally hours after I had woken up.
matthew mac I'm so sorry you had to go through that! I know those night terrors well and it's definitely draining. I hope things are a little better for you now.
I went through the same thing. Plus, I have giant lymph nodes that cause me pain which in turn causes terrible dreams. Like what brought me to this video.lol...my shoulder was hurting before I went to bed and I had a dream where some psychopath with black eyes pinned me on the couch and kept stabbing me over and over with a hot iron right where my shoulder is. The look of joy he had scared me half to death. Actually I didnt fall asleep hurting. I tell myself it had to of started hurting middream because I woke up throbbing. I hate sleeping now. That was just an example of one night. Every night is terrifying. Why cant I have more pleasant situations like a topless girl giving me a massage or something.lol jk
I can remember every dream i have. Every dream is a Lucid dream. It can be a nightmare and still, it's lucid. This isn't a good thing. Some dreams play a storyline in which my entire life changed because of a choice i made or something i didn't do. Heck, in a dream i had last month, I was in it for three months. It all felt so real. When i woke up, twelve hours had gone by.
Also I know I commented already but. How did someone dislike this video? I'm honestly asking. The facts where correct and spoken clearly with great interest, how could(at the time of this comment) 194 people dislike it?
When i was 5, i used to have a fear of the game, "Dead Rising" because of zombies, so when i went to sleep, and well guess what? It was me and my best friend at the time named Alex, i didn't know what we were doing, we were just sitting there, upstairs, then he randomly ran downstairs and i followed. I then saw him with a golf club hitting ZOMBIES and didn't know why but i also had a fear of elementary principal Mr. Brain, so when i saw came close to a zombie in my dream, i saw his face just get close to me then blackout, then i start all over at my friend alex's house upstairs and we would start over like a video game. ;/, Ive also had MANY AND I MEAN MANY dreams that actually happened in real life, like in the future type of shit, like deja vu shit. And honestly, i would like to have deja vu dreams more because i would like to have the same reaction of saying to my friends, "Wait a minute, i had a dream about this." And then this always makes me think if our future is already planned. And may not believe me but i speak truth, please believe me. I thank you for making it this far. :D
Actually, I lucid dream very frequently. However, I've never had a normal dream. I also remember a lot of my dreams. Recently, I've been having dreams where I can make more decisions, but I do not fully realize that they are dreams. They are often adventure dreams. I suspect this is because I recently finished the Chronicles of Narnia. Adventures like the ones told are what I really want now, so my dreams make sense :) (though I don't fully understand them)
The idea that the brain is "trying out new things" while dreaming is a new idea on me, and an interesting one at that. But seriously, it seems like what it's really doing is trying out new neural connections and pathways to see if they're consistent with already existing knowledge. This means it's really working hand-in-hand with strengthening memories as well as with "intuitive" problem-solving ideas, because these are all about the brain sorting through the data it has, organizing it, and putting it to best use.
Jennifer Sixx i don't know but it use to happen to me until i started repeatedly having dreams of waking up in a brilliantly beautiful golden city and just doing my biz then just before i wake up i am standing on a gargantuan , magnificent golden mountain out side of what looked like an ancient temple covered with engravings of what looked like to be runes and images depicting a story , but i do not know what yet
It's because we dream about so many things for so many nights, often times reflecting on our actual lives, that eventually you are bound to dream something that will eventually happen. Basically it's probability.
+Jennifer Sixx It is more likely that real life scenarios remind you of a dream you would otherwise not remember. Therefore it appears you are having premonitions, but in actuality, you have lots of dreams you won't recall unless something specifically reminds you of them.
I have lucid dreams a lot now that I am older. When I was little i remember I would realize I was dreaming but I couldn't control what was happening. but now I have lucid dreams frequently usually right after a nightmare or weird dream. I am also super rebellious in my dreams and steal and break things. Don't get me started on the car dream.
So if we mostly dream about what we did during that day, then how can we explain Precognitive Dreams (also known as Precognition), which is when a person is able to see a future event that has not occurred yet in their dreams. Also do precognitive dreams occur during REM sleep or Non-REM sleep? Can you just do a video talking about Precognition
A couple weeks ago my mom had a dream that I taught our dog to speak. This was the exchange between them: Aiko (lil pupper): mommyyy, my footie hurts Mom: Oh, what footie, this footie? Aiko: no, this footie That's it. She woke up in the middle of the night to tell us this. And tbh I wish you could hear the voice of my dog because it's so dumb and cute, text don't do it justice.
Have you done a video on body paralysis when you're between being awake and asleep? I've had this happen to me a few times. Its weird because I don't know if my eyes are open or not but I can see the room from where I'm lying on the bed, but I can't move. It's weird and I can't remember the actual name for it... I think it's body paralysis or sleep paralysis.
that happened often to me when i was 3 or 4 years old. Never knew it was an actual thing, I just thought it was a normal dream, just placed to look exactly like real life.
REM atonia. Usually you are unconscious by the time REM atonia kicks in, but sometimes you are still conscious. Scary. But once you know what it is, it can be a doorway to lucidity.
When I was like 6 I had a dream where I went outside, and to see spider man, he picked me up, put me in a baby carriage and stringed me to it, I woke up went back to sleep, then had a dream where a mystical portal came into my room and an evil piñata version of plankton ( from spongebob) I screamed in my dream and my mom came it and destroyed him with a bat....yeah, I was weird when I was 6 😂😂😂
So if dreaming helps your brain connect seemingly unrelated events that happened that day.... Why did I have a dream about skiing, falling in love with anime guys, and breaking floors, when I didn't ski, watch anime, or break any floors that day?
I like that when we're awake, we think wtf did I just dream, yet the you in your dream has this entire history that you can't remember when you're awake. This makes the scenarios in your dream feel as if it made perfect sense to the dream you, but not the woken you.
What about sleep walking? I have vivid dreams and I'm never paralyzed (as most of my family members say when they see me sleeping and dreaming) I'm actually kicking around during my dreams, having conversations (as my brother has said) with myself and MOST OF ALL sleep walking.
Well, REM Atonia is your body paralyzing to quit you from acting out your dreams (you must know this) but when your REM atonia is not getting through to your body well you know :3
Oh lol... I feel dumb now lol. Thank for the nice reply. I've been getting nice replies all day must be a holiday or something on TH-cam where everybody respects each other lol
Last night, I had a dream in which I broke into someones house to steal some shit (which is counter to my usual personality, I'm a good dude.) with two people. I couldnt see them very well as it was dark but, apparently knew them and we busted into said house effectively. The people in the house however heard and came to investigate, and we all scattered, hiding in the house. When the lights turned on, I was in my own house, I was found first by my family and when I professed that I was here with two other people, we went to look for them. I found them... but they were action figures... I broke into my own house, to steal my own shit, with two inanimate objects I believed to be speaking to me. What the fuck?
My favorite lucid dream I had was when I turned myself into a mermaid, or at least something that can breathe and talk underwater. The moment I started swimming I knew I was dreaming so I just made the most out of it. LOVED THAT DREAM.
Once I dreamed that I went to my 3-year-old cousin's birthday party in a raft (a big, blow-up one. I don't know why... they live about two hours away from me, and with no water [other than perhaps a puddle] in between), and I really hated someone there. Then I discovered that the muffins being served at the party exploded if I threw them into the raft correctly. So I brought the person I didn't like into the raft, and exploded them via muffins. The strangest part was, I ate a muffin. AND I LIKED IT. I. HATE. MUFFINS.
The only times I have lucid dreams are at the height of nightmares. For example, right as the crazy axe murderer is about to get me, I suddenly realize "Oh wait, this is a dream. I can just wake up and this horrifying experience will be over." And then I wake up. It's a strange experience.
Two related questions: what do blind people dream with? And, how do blind people think? (Using the premise that we usually think with pictures, sounds, odors, etc. and the "mentalese" theory)
manamaster6 If they were born blind I've no clue,but if they had memories of vision before their blindness I'd imagine they at least have occasional dreams involving vision.
One night I was dreaming about meeting a whole bunch of TH-camrs at a park. We were waiting for PewDiePie to show up and then he called us and told us he was lost. So I went out of the park (when I left it turned into my house) and then I realized I was in a dream. I realized I had full control over everything. So then I flew higher and higher and then I woke up. I was SOOOOOOOOOO MAAAAAAAADDDDDDDD! It was the first time I had ever had one of those dreams!!
The 1 Realm of Retro! I think if you are aware of your dream even if you don't have control that means it's Lucid. I have different states of Lucid dreams where I know I am dream with no control, to having some control, but follow the rules of that dream, to complete control.
After watching this and hearing him say 'go take a nap, it's good for you' or whatever I promptly took a nap and now I feel like a marvelous human being. Thank you hank green. 💖
Someone else had that same thing and he had a dream about a bomb at a building he contacted Homeland Security and told them where he drempt of the bomb and it was actually there.
well, things like that have also happened to me, I dont think it is freaky, its not like it is witchcraft or voodoo, I should not continue, for some peoples sake. more involves what you believe and what you dont... that is the only way I know how to put it.
Most people experience a feeling that some outside entity is forcing them down (like a ghost or something) but every time it has happened to me, i was just mad as shit I couldnt move and felt really uncomfortable, then fell back asleep.
A couple of days ago I had trouble sleeping because of the wind. I had just a little of trouble because just once in a while I woke up but then fell asleep again. Until I decided that it was enough with the wind and wanted to close my window. So I stood up, closed it but while I was standing near the window I somehow fell asleep again. I fell down on a chair that caught me. Then the noise I made woke me up and I realized what happened and went to bed again. Was that some form of delayed sleep paralysis or something??
So... when I dream about being a shape shifting witch ninja on another planet with a nebula for a sky and fighting hordes of demons hell bent on conquering the local elves and fairies for their demonic dragon queen, I'm dreaming about what I did that day?
While i doubt the validity of THAT dream in particular, you dream more about what you THOUGHT about that day, which includes what you did. But, if the idea of a shape-shifting witch ninja fighting demons crossed your mind, then hey, i don't see why you wouldn't dream about that at some point.
Well 1. LOL and 2. You could've been talking to your friends and had conversations with them that were weird. Then your brain connected to them with a ninja. Maybe a couple of days later you went to a cathlic church who fight off demons from the inside and connected to that with the ninja and starting thinking about a witch. Then your brain could've tried to see what it feels like to do what you thought of before. It's just about what you think and what happens around you xD.
LoonInTheMoon don't even ask why I dream about being eaten by a Godzilla-T-rex. And why I happen to be a vampire in said dream, so it's not a big deal that I got eaten. Just... Why Brain? Why? Also the pink carpeted drug hotel that was the demonsaur's inside. With flying fish outside the window. Normal human activities... Nothing weird here... The closest I have come to that is not at all!!! Why!?
My dreams are always ridiculous, but these are a few favorites: - The lead singer from Slipknot showed up at my Girl Scout camp. - A guy was stalking me--though he was probably some sort of fantasy villain and not an everyday creeper--and I'd only just confronted him when I woke up. - My class was stuck in something that was a cross between The Hunger Games and the novel Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein. We were left in the woods to survive, with the implication that we were supposed to kill each other (like in The Hunger Games,) but instead we started forming a colony (like in Tunnel in the Sky.) But then after a while, some boys became convinced that the grownups watching us were going to destroy us all, and they started killing everybody.
It's rather interesting, but it is entirely possible to have lucid dreams on purpose. Just set your alarm clock about an hour before usual, wake up, stay up for like 5 minutes, then go back to sleep. Chances are, you'll experience a lucid dream.
So there any science behind muscle spasms that causes people to lurch forward just as they are about to fall asleep? Kind of like the body is trying to stop itself from tripping. At least I hope its some people and not another one of those habits thats exclusive to me.
***** Ah thankyou that actually makes perfect sense. The times it most happens is when my arm is under my pillow and my head (I lay on my side), I bet my legs probably shift causing me to lose balance.
I have this sometimes, and I always have the exact same dream when it happens, that I'm walking along the apex of a roof and one leg slips - then my leg jerks violently in real life and I wake up!
LizTiddington Suppose it could be worse my sister sleep walks, it was like growing up in a horror movie. Sister would run around the house yelling nonsense until someone turned on the light.
As a child I was killed by an old house, and another time my older sister hand cuffed my to an electric fence, and turned it on. Now when I sleep I keep going to prison, that may not really be a prison... It's pretty odd to me.
Do you have irregular sleeping patterns or are they typically routine? (early to bed, early to rise will yield the most). At one point I went from dreaming every night to a 12hr midnight shift and rarely dreamed for 3 years, until I went back to a normal schedule.
what normal schedule i go to bed around 8ish 9ish o'clock and wake up at 7 on week days and i always will wake up at like 3 o'clock in the morning and wont be able to go back to sleep till like five sometimes i don't even go back to sleep i just end up lying awake till 7 then on fridays i will sometimes stay up till like 12 or so (i lie probly like 11:30) and watch youtube then on the weekends cant sleep in its not pocible but i end up wakeing up at like 7:30 and try to go back to sleep but it dosen't work so i just go on my computer so again i ask you what normal schedule.
That seems normal enough (aside from the waking up at 3am part). When I say 'normal', I just mean a steady sleeping pattern that follows your circadian rhythm. And for the most part it sounds like you do. There are many reasons you could be waking up at 3am, I don't know you so I couldn't even wager a guess. For most people, the REM (dream) cycle starts just a couple hours before their usual wake time. This would explain why you wouldn't remember dreams if you've woken at 3am. (I am NOT a doctor, so take what I say with a grain of salt. I have merely been passionate about the subject most of my life.) It is possible that diet, medication or environmental factors are inhibiting your melatonin production. Stress can also override melatonin's usefulness. Aside from the waking up at 3am it sounds 'normal'. You are missing your REM sleep. But there is a lucid dreaming technique - though is easier if you are already practicing lucid dreaming - called the "Wake Back To Bed" method, that may be able to help you. Some lucid dreamers will intentionally set there alarm clock to just a couple hours before they usually wake up, walk around for a couple minutes (not fully wake up) and go back to sleep, inducing lucid dreaming using whatever method you are comfortable with. This all may not be much help. If you have any other questions I will surely reply. But not tonight, I have a test to study for. Cheers and sweet dreams.
Im very stupied in dreams, expessially when i was about 5-6 years old. I remember once i dreamed a valcono arupted outside the lakehouse and i knew i was dreaming but i still thought i was gonna die, so i begged my mom to make me wake up. When i woke up i was like WTF
Love watching your channel. Please can you maks episodes on how to get better sleeping routines, how to become a morning person and good study techniques?
In high school I used to sleep in math class and answer my teachers questions. She thought it was funny as hell so she always asked me AFTER I slipped into that barely asleep stage.
matthew mac well in that case, you're not alone. Start writing them up, keep a pen and some paper near your bed, write down even the tiniest bits you remember. Eventually your brain will develop a habit of remembering dreams. Did that for a while, but got lazy, so pitch black for me again. :D
Can we stop talking about Sigmund Freud? Science has basically proven all of his theories wrong and completely ridiculous. But he is still constantly mentioned in scientific topics as if his ideas have any credibility. Might as well bring up Santa Claus and unicorns as well...
I have to say, Lucid dreaming is amazing. I get it quite frequently and it really has helped the creative side of me as well. Example of a situation: My father was teaching me how to drive stick as my first time driving. I went to bed and dreamed of being able to operate the clutch, petal, and shiftier fluently. I woke up the next day and told my Father I want to give it another shot, that I feel like I know what to do. To his amazement I was able to work it very well for my second time trying! I have been driving stick ever sense. Amazing stuff
I would like to know what causes those dreams in which you think you are awake but arent and you 'wake up' many times in the dream until you finally do. It happens to me often
In my dream I actually realized I was dreaming once... then I think the part that controls all of that went back to sleep and I forgot almost immediately after I couldn't think of what to do. Annoying everytime I do have a lucid dream I end up waking up almost immediately...
Probably one of the more important videos SciShow has done... interesting stuff, and how have I never heard any of this stuff on other talks/videos about sleep? I feel like all I ever hear is "its important".
I've never had a dream (for what I've remembered) that was actually boring or was repetitive. When you say REM sleep, it makes me think that some people are different in that they have a more creative mind or not really that but a shorter attention span. While dreaming, it seems that it would be the opposite, but when I was younger, my dreams were repetitive and sometimes boring, but as my brain developed, my dreams began to be more complex, memorable, and creative. I honest don't remember having a scary dream in at least 9 years! Until I was about 7, my dreams were the same and occurred multiple times every month or year. I have not had a repeated or even repetitious dream in soooooo long now. I believe (although test cannot be done) my mind is more complex than others (and many other are definitely the same) in a what that I can think and understand people mentally and understand what they are thinking and what the are feeling through experience, situation, and simply a feeling I don't understand. Honestly I wish people understood how much differently my mind (and certain others that can actually understand this) works than the average human. Although no one really knows, I feel that there is no way for me to let anyone know about how he mind truly works and how others do as well. I know this sounds like absolute gibberish but I have no words that can truly explain my feelings. If I could, I would just sit and watch the world and watch people and think about the mind and think about all the things that I just can't comprehend. If I were to just sit down and think, people would think I'm crazy. If I could I wouldn't do work. I would literally just think for the rest of my life and just dream. My favorite thing in the world is honestly thinking. I have already planned a book talking about the mind and how social interaction affect the brain with simply observing my surrounding and being in all of these situations in my life. My attention span it very short unless I am just thinking. I am one of the best readers I know but I would rather just think and talk to people that understand me than read. Even the most complicated and complex stories in books just don't satisfy me. I know I went a little of topic but I really hope you read this comment. I don't think you need to put this into real concise ration but it would be really cool to think about wouldn't it. The hard part about connecting and understanding people is over the internet, but I still understand. Sometimes it would be cool to be normal, but I think I am lucky.
One time I dreamt that I was black,and I was getting married to a gorgeous black woman but right before the ceremony started some guy ran in and screamed "Stop he's an imposter!" and then he literally ripped the black off of me and I was standing there white as can be.Everyone gasped. I paniced and scooped my bride into my arms and flew out of the church bursting through the cieling. I then methodically began testing my new flight ability. I realized i could steer, accelerate/decelerate , rise or fall by adjusting the angle of my arms and legs. Superman had it all wrong. I had no idea where my wife went, She had disappeared inexplicably, so I became depressed and landed in my yard. I then screamed at the universe and a giant gamma ray burst out of my mouth and blew a hole through jupiter. It was one of the most awesome things I've ever experienced.
SoulCrapper *cough* wife in arms, adjusting angle of arms to test flying *cough*
WHAT THE FUCK?!
SoulCrapper that sounds like an awesome dream.
+SoulCrapper heh, funny.
Dood you just made my day now I wanna dream that too but In Asian skin form 😂😂😂😂
The one time I ever had a lucid dream was once when I was little. I figured out I could fly in my dream, but it turns out I just gained the ability to roll out of bed.
XD
Your profile pic scares me 😖
+Eliana Matos you must be 10
I was about 10 when I had that dream. 9 or so years ago, yes.
👏👏👏
I had a dream about a girl, and now I am dating someone who looks EXACTLY LIKE HER. in every way. and her name was Noelle. my girlfriend wrote a novel at the same time that i had that dream, and made the main character about herself and named her Noelle. creepy.
That's so cool
U guys were meant to be
+Ikoikjji I think you lie.
did u guys break up?
im sorry
+Melancholy
i too had a vivid dream about a girl and i met her 3 years later and my dream was spot on how she looked what she liked but i didn't think much of it at the time until i met her and everything i dreamed came back to me. she did find it freaky how much i knew about her and that no one else had known. hanged around with me a lot. but not as a girlfriend, just amazed as i was. But it was a nice experience, i hope to have another dream like that someday.
"her name is noelle, i had a dream about her, she rings my bell, i got gym class in half an hour" this is a song which fits your comment perfectly hahaha
One time I had the whole naked in public dream but then I realised I was dreaming so I decided to turn into a dragon and fly around burning stuff.
Being a dragon is much more important to me than anything else.
Amen, bro
+Noelle Pope-George
I dreamed public was naked around me
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+Noelle Pope-George I haven't gotten there to control my dreams fully, but instead I had tamed a tiger, had sex with my crush, went to a basketball game where the police and the Rockets beat up a kid pointing a lazer at Harden also I walked down the street naked. Pretty crazy
+Noelle Pope-George :)))) you made me happy ,thank you
+Noelle Pope-George I once had a naked in public dream, but then I realized I was awake.
If naps are that helpful for solving problems....WHY DOES KINDERGARTEN HAVE NAPTIME BUT HIGH SCHOOL DOESN'T?
Preach
+MaeMae II you have lunch, if you want it is entirely up to you to take a nap instead after eating a quick meal. i had this one guy in class one year that went to sleep under a desk almost each lunch break.
tnxm fulfill machines Moy
+Cola Phoenix We can't sleep during our lunchtime... We get sent to ALC (Alternative Learning Center- basically in-school suspension for a day) if the wrong teacher catches you..
Ashlyn Willis well sorry, i'm from norway.... here they don't mind... there are even teacher that say you should sleep during lunch...
“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.'
If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen.
They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.'
So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings
why does it feel like I only slept for a few seconds when I wake up
it is because you are not dreaming correctly.
Because if you remembered lying down and looking at your ceiling for 5-8hrs, you weren't actually sleeping! Your brain shuts down/rests leaving only the subconscious awake to keep your vitals going... basically.
+Jarib Vanegas
This is because the brain is forming very few new memories. You don't remember laying down for several hours. The few memories that do form are of dreams (though most dreams are forgotten). If you don't remember anything while sleeping, then you don't remember it taking 8 hours.
well thats not true for everyone cause i remember all of my dreams!!!!!! and theyre all atrange by the way!!!!!!!!!!!
Ana Paulino Naranjo Just playing devil's advocate here... how can you claim to remember everything when you would never know that which you can't remember? A bit of an oxymoron! xD
One of my favorite dreams was very very short but I was in the ISS and looked over/down to earth and it was THE ABSOLUTELY MOST BEAUTIFUL IMAGE I have ever seen, so much so that I started tearing up and when I woke up I still had tears in my eyes and I felt so incredible. I was in a good mood & felt happy. I can still picture it, and the amount of joy I felt is indescribable
I've been watching a LOT of do rescue videos, and I had a vivid dream about rescuing a whole bunch of dogs. Any dream about dogs is a good dream regardless of how weird it gets. Like dogs driving around on golf carts.
When I was younger, I had a dream that I was a Pokemon Ranger (dont ask) and I was in some kind of weird Pokemon Ranger Olympics. I had to carry a torch to the brazier, but the torch was actually a stick of string cheese (please, just dont ask) and had to carry it across the city, and I was doing Parkour and shit, but then I fell through a roof into a Suave deodorant commercial (just...XD) and then I just continued parkouring and I made it to the stadium place and I was trying to look cool, so I took a bite out of the string cheese. But it wasn't string cheese anymore, it was deoderant, and somone in the audience pointed it out, but I kept up the act and continued eating it even though it was fucking disgusting and tasted like poison and there were these nasty ass fragrance crystals on it. So I took the deodorant to the brazier and chucked it in, and I waved to the crowd, with all this nasty shit in my mouth.
Then I collapsed on the stage and barfed everywhere.
Funny thing is, when I woke up, I could fucking taste deodorant in my mouth.
not asking, LoL
***** oul tellitolly :p
*****
More like 15. I had this dream when I was 10.
TooEliteForYou cocaine is a hell of a drug
TooEliteForYou and now you know not to eat deoderant
but why do most of our dreams get forgotten?
same
Dreaming is a process to manage your experiences, so the dream seems to be sort of a replay of previous experiences. Your memories are experiences you had while awake and conscious. We remember some dreams because some part of our waking brain is engaged and so able to "experience" the dream and so form a memory of the dream.
There are many cultural traditions centered around training the brain to reliably recall dreams, including the ability to more frequently enter and participate in lucid waking dreams where the dreamer is fully aware that they are in a dream and are even able to make choices that effect the course of the dream. These traditions tend to view dreams as connections to the spirit realm or at least as fully spiritual (read deeply meaningful) experiences that can be used to receive wisdom or even insights into the future.
Of course, our modern popular culture yields many books that seek to help people learn to recall and interpret their dreams towards many different ends, sometimes in an effort to return to our more spiritual / tribal social roots.
Many average folks routinely remember their daily dreams, while others, like me, almost never recall even one a year. Much of this simply has to do with your personal sleep patterns and whether you are likely to cross those zones from dreams to consciousness while a dream is under way.
I know that I dream each night, I just never remember any given dream. I also tend to sleep pretty soundly though the entire night for an average on 6-7 hours and often wake well rested. My wife, however, requires 8-9 hours and sometimes does not sleep well. Everybody is different. It's really only a concern should it create problems in your life. There are medical professionals who work with sleep issues who can usually help with such problems.
Dreaming is a process to manage your experiences, so the dream seems to be sort of a replay of previous experiences. Your memories are experiences you had while awake and conscious. We remember some dreams because some part of our waking brain is engaged and so able to "experience" the dream and so form a memory of the dream.
There are many cultural traditions centered around training the brain to reliably recall dreams, including the ability to more frequently enter and participate in lucid waking dreams where the dreamer is fully aware that they are in a dream and are even able to make choices that effect the course of the dream. These traditions tend to view dreams as connections to the spirit realm or at least as fully spiritual (read deeply meaningful) experiences that can be used to receive wisdom or even insights into the future.
Of course, our modern popular culture yields many books that seek to help people learn to recall and interpret their dreams towards many different ends, sometimes in an effort to return to our more spiritual / tribal social roots.
Many average folks routinely remember their daily dreams, while others, like me, almost never recall even one a year. Much of this simply has to do with your personal sleep patterns and whether you are likely to cross those zones from dreams to consciousness while a dream is under way.
I know that I dream each night, I just never remember any given dream. I also tend to sleep pretty soundly though the entire night for an average on 6-7 hours and often wake well rested. My wife, however, requires 8-9 hours and sometimes does not sleep well. Everybody is different. It's really only a concern should it create problems in your life. There are medical professionals who work with sleep issues who can usually help with such problems.
Dreaming is a process to manage your experiences, so the dream seems to be sort of a replay of previous experiences. Your memories are experiences you had while awake and conscious. We remember some dreams because some part of our waking brain is engaged and so able to "experience" the dream and so form a memory of the dream.
There are many cultural traditions centered around training the brain to reliably recall dreams, including the ability to more frequently enter and participate in lucid waking dreams where the dreamer is fully aware that they are in a dream and are even able to make choices that effect the course of the dream. These traditions tend to view dreams as connections to the spirit realm or at least as fully spiritual (read deeply meaningful) experiences that can be used to receive wisdom or even insights into the future.
Of course, our modern popular culture yields many books that seek to help people learn to recall and interpret their dreams towards many different ends, sometimes in an effort to return to our more spiritual / tribal social roots.
Many average folks routinely remember their daily dreams, while others, like me, almost never recall even one a year. Much of this simply has to do with your personal sleep patterns and whether you are likely to cross those zones from dreams to consciousness while a dream is under way.
I know that I dream each night, I just never remember any given dream. I also tend to sleep pretty soundly though the entire night for an average on 6-7 hours and often wake well rested. My wife, however, requires 8-9 hours and sometimes does not sleep well. Everybody is different. It's really only a concern should it create problems in your life. There are medical professionals who work with sleep issues who can usually help with such problems.
Scot Harkins my long awaited answer has arrived, thank you
I once had a dream that I was obama who was riding an albino deer, and was a leader of some forest tribe. Some huge kingdom was choping down the forest, so I had to go talk to the ice queen (who I think was the leader or something of the kingdom) I then took her to the forest to show her how beutifull the forest was, but we were attacked by a bear, so I pulled out a magical blue banana and it blew up. She thanked me for saving her life and granted me one favor, so I asked for infinite favors, then the ice king (if you don't know who that is, LOOK IT UP) swooped down and froze my deer and my banana, so I started running towards him hoping to punch him, but a plasma sword randomly fell from the sky, so I grabbed it and sliced him in half, and babies came out. we then collected the babies and gave them to all the people in the kingdom who wanted babies but couldn't have any. then I woke up.
It was the weirdest dream I've ever had.
Best dream ever. Of all time.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLLLL
This is so weird it has to be a dream...no one could actually come up with this...
This is impossible to make up, I completely believe you :D
Murali Varma I had a dream I was shopping for tuxedos with Barnie and he couldn't find one that fit so he started eating people.
This is gonna sound weird, but am I the only one that if I dream about a girl, I wake up with a major crush on her that is usually gone by the end of the day?
same here lol
Yeah so true! 😂
not alone, bro
+God is fake bro LOL obviously :(
+Joe Mamma Yes.
last night i had a "what the hell dream"...
Julius Caesar was a giant scorpion.
+PizzaManager101 That is awesome! I had one last week with a Giant Beaver wearing sun block on his nose, surfing on Blueberry juice.
+S3TO1234 That is awesome too once i had a dream about feynman piloting a plane with enricho fermi but i mostly forget because its like 2 years past
Last month I had a dream where a camel dressed as chue bacca was petting a lamppost with barrack obama
+PizzaManager101 had you been playing some fallout?? lol
***** BRAAAAIIIINNNSSS
Why do we often forget our dreams as soon as we wake up?
My guess is that the brain automatically deems it nonessential, so it gets tossed away in the process from short-term to long-term memory.
That seems plausible.
Look up DMT, its the chemical that makes us dream and the strongest psychedelic on the planet.
livelypeopledrinkcoffee because you're a goblin.
How come sometimes I have the same dream multiple times?
+Kate Pierce Memory function.
Reoccurring dreams usually mean that your subconscious is trying to tell you something.
I always have (not the same, but like a series of similar dreams) whenever I sleep at my grandmas house???
+Kate Pierce Or like "sequels" of that dream...
+Kate Pierce Same here, but the scary thing is, I can change the outcome. The first time, I was successful in escaping. The next, I was successful too. But the third time, I was caught, my horse was thrown high up in the air, and I woke up.
all of my dreams end in me trying to find a private place to go to the toilet but I always get interupted till I finally wake up to go pee at 4am
Danger Mouse Go talk to your doctor.
Dip Schillips Stop drinking so much before you go to sleep.
I love lucid dreaming. It's an experience like nothing before. Flying is so much fun. Especially when you can feel the wind on your face and see the world I created below it. I have had only a few here and there but I wish I could have them everynight.They are really fun
Yes, yes! They say gaming increases your ability to lucid dream, you know, because you're controlling something for long periods of time. So, one night, I was able to web swing like Spiderman!!!!!
Aiming my hand up, watching the webline fly up and away perfectly towards my target. Feeling the web materialize in my arm and spool outwards, felt like a tickle. Hanging on and swooping through the air, then realizing you have to shoot another one, ooooooh, MAN! One of the most amazing experiences in my life.
If only we could lucid dream whenever we wanted...oh my.
I can only remember one time that I had a lucid dream, and I spent it wisely by making a massive candy/cake world with jell-o lakes and swedish fish (and an infinite stomach), I also brought all my dead cats back and and tons of cat toys and got to hang out with them. I just wish I had remember to fly...
I go around, punching people I hate.
I had a close friend who had lucid dreams all the time. He told me the main requirement for lucid dreaming was being well rested, getting lots of sleep. That counts me out. He was working with Stephen LaBerge (who wrote books about lucid dreaming) on making a mask that they hoped could be used to train people how to lucid dream. The idea was that the mask would have sensors on it that could sense the eye movements, and software that would determine that the wearer was in REM sleep. Then the mask would flash a red light repeatedly over the retina of the eye. Their hope was that the flashing light would be incorporated into the dream in some way. So students who wanted to become lucid dreamers would train themselves that whenever they saw a flashing red light, they would ask themselves "Am I dreaming?", then do a dream check, like making sure your watch is showing something like the correct time, or looking at a magazine cover or inside a book to see if you can read the text. In dreams, there is not enough computing power in the brain to simulate text, so seeing "text" means what you are experiencing is real.
***** When I have a lucid dream, I'm afraid to 'open' my eyes in the dream becaus I did once and opened my actual eyez.
Within the past year I've had around 20 dreams of being able to fly and most are different.
--- One I had recently I could feel a type of wind pressure or resistance in the palms of my hands and I could use that to fly.
--- Another I was standing in front of a wall and I opened my mouth and started saying AAHHH and the vibrations of my voice allowed me to fly
--- I remember one where I was leaping over cars in a mall parking lot and when I got into the mall I was able to fly around and control my decent.
--- The most specific one I had, I was out in a field and I was literally testing the limits of my flight, I'd fly up a bit and come down, then go up a bit more until it became kind of scary then come down, and I repeated this until I was in full flight controlling every aspect.
The BEST thing about my dreams of flight is that I can Feel them. It's not like I just see it, I feel the control, I feel the lift, the rush of the ascent and decent, I feel the wind against my skin, like a roller coaster, it's the most phenomenal feeling.
--- For those having trouble remembering your dreams, it's a skill that gets better with practice. Have something next to your bed to record what you remember as soon as you wake up, even if it's just a little bit. The more you do it the more you'll remember. Sometimes in the morning I'll remember a little snip-it and record it, and as the day goes on I'll remember most of it. I tell ya, some of the dreams I've had are better than any movie I've ever seen.
---- But it is kinda scary when what you recorded in a dream happens several days, weeks, or months down the road and seems like Deja Vu. For me, it seems to be rather insignificant things though, like I'll be talking to a friend about a reason for a traffic jam, and when we hit the reason, I'll be like, "Whoa, Deja Vu". It always reminds me of The Matrix when they say Deja Vu is a glitch in the system.
I've been subscribed to SciShow since the beginning, but sometimes it's nice just to go back through and watch some of the episodes (this usually happens when I'm out of books to read/listen to for a day or two). I'm equally surprised by how much I remember and how much I forgot.
For some reason whenever I realize that I'm dreaming I automatically try to wake up.
+Esosa Uhunsere
me 2.
I dreamed that i couldn't wake up.
+Esosa Uhunsere me to. i had the fucking weirdest experience ever when that happened. first my dream mother was crying because i wanted to go out the dream and she said she would never see me again and after that al is saw was a computer screen and then something was on the screen what said, if you want to go out of this dream press yes if not press no. then i thought really hard about moving the mouse to yes and it worked i clicked it and i waked up. WTF BRAIN.
Cool
+Naomi Chin A Pauw LMFAO, wow that was something. I remember reading about someone who after entering a lucid dream, gathered all his dream characters together and he told them they were all a part of his imagination, then the dream characters started pleading asking him not to wake up because they would all die if he did lol. but your experience with the computer screen is definitely a unique experience. I don't think any of the strange dream experiences could hold a candle to yours.
I had a dream, if I spoke I would wake up... everyone would look at me.
I know atrick 2 waek up, close ur eyes in ur dreams.
The mind when it is Dreaming is more connected to the collective unconscious where inspirations and all new ideas and inventions come from. When we are dreaming it is easier to see that we are not in control, that there is an outside influence or unconscious mind that is in control, that keeps our heart beating and regulates are breathing when we are unconscious. Some people are more awake when they sleep then when they are sleep and are awake. For the first time in mankind's history we can Know the truth as it relates to conscious life. Search *_Truth Contest_* and read the top entry called The Present.
stop using big words on the first 7 words, no one would continue reading that.
Were you high when ya wrote that??
this isnt science. this is jargon
I disagree man. Why give so much credit to a "collective unconscious". Inspiration and dreams come from all over the place. I'm a thinker and a doer; I draw influence and ideas from life. Why is it that people have so little faith in an individuals ability, that some wacko always has to attribute it to some higher plane or being? Dreams and hallucinations are awesome, it's easy to get carried away and think that you've just parted some ethereal curtain, but there is a science behind it. We've also known for quite some time what controls our heart rate and breathing and it has absolutely nothing to do with the "collective unconscious".
"Some people are more awake when they sleep then when they are sleep and are awake." Seriously some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard. Stop trying to sound insightful.
I have been lucid dreaming from a young age. Lucid dreaming is all about control. Learn to control your path in the dream world and navigating life is all the easier. If you feel you are not in control than that is the nature of your own outlook on life. The real Ansel Adams would probably smack you for using his name.
Sounds good. Good night
I've been going on a bit of a SciShow binge this past week and this video is (thus far) my favorite. Pure awesomeness SciShow team!
"Cuz our brains aren't here to make friends, they're here to WIN."
--- Hank Green.
I have to find a job, finish a technical course, keep going through college and find sex. But apparently to my brain getting free hot dogs forever is my top priority according to my dreams.
I am homosexual, everything makes sense now.*****
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Question:
Why do sometimes I have a dream that later occurs in real life?
Like, it told the future.
For me (I don't know about others), it's probably a non-REM dream, since it's really boring and it only seems like a clip, but why does it happen? Am I just having crazy deja vu (and yes I watched the deja vu video)?
Because your brain likes to see patterns where there are none. It's not that you're dreaming something and then it happens, it's that something happens and then your brain changes the dream to match.
happens to me too! ive convinced myself that im imagining its a dream because I can never remember when ive experienced the dream before
That has happened to me too and it's weird.
ketherga In addition to this, our brains evolved to be semi-proficient future prediction devices, and brains that could analyze patterns and derive future scenarios were more successful, thus propagated. While your brain is making connections and patterns about your life, it can make predictions about future events. Its a roll of the dice whether the dream you remember is an event that happens. And in over 600,000 views, and probably 500,000 unique viewers, this is completely to be expected.
woah....that's....complicated. And awesome.
"Our brains aren't here to make friends, our brains are here to win!" - Hank Green, 2012
I fell asleep during Government class the other day and dreamed I was in a much pleasanter classroom listening to my teacher give a lecture on Gerrymandering - which is what he was doing in reality, but in a much more drab classroom.
I had a dream that I remember so clearly, probably during REM. I won't go into it to much but me and my friend heard a killer was out and jokingly hid in the bathroom. We then decided who ever could stay in here longer one. First I told her to get food and she started screaming and banging the door. Dream me decided to be real me and thought she was joking before finally letting her in and seeing a guy with a ski mask shooting at her. The main thing I rember is dream me thinking 'God that guy is such a terrible shot. He really sucks at shooting people who are against the door and can't move to much'
interesting short talk! lucid dreamer here!
there was a period of time where I had a dream of an older version of myself living an idealised life with a partner whom I can never see the face clearly. And it was like living another life in my subconsciousness or like watching reality tv during my sleep every night. it was really cool how i could control on things turned out!
Maybe my subconsciousness wanted me to feel true happiness. :D
Hi Jolene Lin ! I was wondering.. do you have any idea of what can i do to experience Lucid dreaming ? :)
Corrie Jones, well, for myself, it happens naturally. whilst dreaming, when I myself is in the dream, I can control my actions in the dream itself, it's that vivid! and then this continues everyday...
Jolene Lin Body control brotha, body control...
I had a dream that I was fighting a banana. Then my mom came in and ate it. Why did I dream that?
Did u ever walk in on mom eating daddy’s banana?
😂😂😂
Hot mom?
"Freud was, you know, Freud" lol
I had a really lifelike dream last night that my mom was dying, I was failing at school, and my friends had disappeared-- although I was also on pretty powerful meds from my surgery
I think that would be a dream with somewhat simple translations. They all seem like things you could be generally worried about consciously or subconsciously. Your mother's health and safety, grades, and friendship or abandonment. Nothing bad, just things that you could be concerned with or insecure about. I have a lot of them. :)
Ok, so last night I had this dream where I woke up an hour later than I was supposed to. I woke up from that dream and found that my alarm was set for an hour later than the time it was supposed to be set. It was like my dream was trying to warn me. Any explanations?
I think that dreams can often tell you something you already know, but that you may not be aware of. In your situation you probably knew deep down that your alarm was set wrong, but you didn't have access to that information conscientiously. During your sleep your sub-conscience must have realized that having your alarm set wrong was a really bad thing, so it through up the information for you to register conscientiously.
Basically, its just the same as remembering something, just in CRAZY DREAM FORM.
I would put it this way, when you're dreaming your brain is sorting through memories to establish what's important and what's not. As it gets rid of lots of information that's not important, it comes across something that is and acts upon it, such as "Oh, I forgot to change my alarm back! That's important! Keep thinking it!", like finding a cheque inbetween some magazines you're thinking of throwing out. You'd want to forget the magazines and cash the cheque right away.
Best episode so far. Very well delivered as well by Hank
I once had a dream that I was Neji Hyuga and then Captain Falcon ran me over in his trademark vehicle and I was eaten by a wolf spider the size of a house.
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+Garen Crownguard TEm So HAPPY!!!! hOI TeM!!!!
+Cobanor_456 Thats called Déjà Vu
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"People often report dreaming about, kind of, boring stuff."
Once I had a boring dream about a Watchmojo video my brain had made up.
Right after I woke up, I remembered other dreams more vividly than the made-up Watchmojo video because Watchmojo is VERY boring and completely forgettable.
No.
I am aware that your comment may be bait.
Once, I was dreaming that I was on a long and boring roadtrip, with nothing but plains around the road.... And I couldn't wake up. ... I was even thinking that it was boring, in my dream. (the funny thing is that earlier in that dream, it was awesome. I was sort in a war against machines... Sort of like in the Terminator future setting).
I had to start a new heart medication and had some of the most realistic, violent dreams of my life. My cardiologist said it was definitely a side effect of the medication. Thank goodness it only lasted a couple of days. I wouldn't be able to handle those types of dreams all the time. I was actually afraid to fall asleep, they were so intense and would stay with me emotionally hours after I had woken up.
same hear but insted of medication i suffered from night terrors and insted of being afraid to go asleep i was terrifide
matthew mac I'm so sorry you had to go through that! I know those night terrors well and it's definitely draining. I hope things are a little better for you now.
yea they are and thank you
I went through the same thing. Plus, I have giant lymph nodes that cause me pain which in turn causes terrible dreams. Like what brought me to this video.lol...my shoulder was hurting before I went to bed and I had a dream where some psychopath with black eyes pinned me on the couch and kept stabbing me over and over with a hot iron right where my shoulder is. The look of joy he had scared me half to death. Actually I didnt fall asleep hurting. I tell myself it had to of started hurting middream because I woke up throbbing. I hate sleeping now. That was just an example of one night. Every night is terrifying. Why cant I have more pleasant situations like a topless girl giving me a massage or something.lol jk
yea one night terror i had was of a costume shark eating me and saying dolfins not hear to save you ??????????
I can remember every dream i have. Every dream is a Lucid dream. It can be a nightmare and still, it's lucid. This isn't a good thing. Some dreams play a storyline in which my entire life changed because of a choice i made or something i didn't do. Heck, in a dream i had last month, I was in it for three months. It all felt so real. When i woke up, twelve hours had gone by.
Also I know I commented already but. How did someone dislike this video? I'm honestly asking. The facts where correct and spoken clearly with great interest, how could(at the time of this comment) 194 people dislike it?
194 people don't have dreams or are religious nuts and dislike science.
Exactly! He said nothing false or offensive at all
They missed the like button. Happens to me alot.
Taylor Burns you can undo your dislike as well as your like
But they dont notice.
When i was 5, i used to have a fear of the game, "Dead Rising" because of zombies, so when i went to sleep, and well guess what? It was me and my best friend at the time named Alex, i didn't know what we were doing, we were just sitting there, upstairs, then he randomly ran downstairs and i followed. I then saw him with a golf club hitting ZOMBIES and didn't know why but i also had a fear of elementary principal Mr. Brain, so when i saw came close to a zombie in my dream, i saw his face just get close to me then blackout, then i start all over at my friend alex's house upstairs and we would start over like a video game. ;/, Ive also had MANY AND I MEAN MANY dreams that actually happened in real life, like in the future type of shit, like deja vu shit. And honestly, i would like to have deja vu dreams more because i would like to have the same reaction of saying to my friends, "Wait a minute, i had a dream about this." And then this always makes me think if our future is already planned. And may not believe me but i speak truth, please believe me. I thank you for making it this far. :D
Actually, I lucid dream very frequently. However, I've never had a normal dream. I also remember a lot of my dreams. Recently, I've been having dreams where I can make more decisions, but I do not fully realize that they are dreams. They are often adventure dreams. I suspect this is because I recently finished the Chronicles of Narnia. Adventures like the ones told are what I really want now, so my dreams make sense :) (though I don't fully understand them)
The idea that the brain is "trying out new things" while dreaming is a new idea on me, and an interesting one at that. But seriously, it seems like what it's really doing is trying out new neural connections and pathways to see if they're consistent with already existing knowledge. This means it's really working hand-in-hand with strengthening memories as well as with "intuitive" problem-solving ideas, because these are all about the brain sorting through the data it has, organizing it, and putting it to best use.
Why do i dream something and then it actually happens?
Jennifer Sixx i don't know but it use to happen to me until i started repeatedly having dreams of waking up in a brilliantly beautiful golden city and just doing my biz then just before i wake up i am standing on a gargantuan , magnificent golden mountain out side of what looked like an ancient temple covered with engravings of what looked like to be runes and images depicting a story , but i do not know what yet
Because you're Carnac
***** how am i a village in france?
It's because we dream about so many things for so many nights, often times reflecting on our actual lives, that eventually you are bound to dream something that will eventually happen. Basically it's probability.
+Jennifer Sixx It is more likely that real life scenarios remind you of a dream you would otherwise not remember. Therefore it appears you are having premonitions, but in actuality, you have lots of dreams you won't recall unless something specifically reminds you of them.
I once had a dream where I had to draw Donald trumps hair
That is one terrifying dream...
+Camerin Nikles Lucky! Haha :)
+Camerin Nikles You would be the first person to design the hair on his head... WOLF!
Nightmare
I love hearing other people's dreams 😂
Last night I dreamt that I went to the supermarket and couldn't decide on what brands to buy for basically 7hours. That was literally it.
I have lucid dreams a lot now that I am older. When I was little i remember I would realize I was dreaming but I couldn't control what was happening. but now I have lucid dreams frequently usually right after a nightmare or weird dream. I am also super rebellious in my dreams and steal and break things. Don't get me started on the car dream.
So if we mostly dream about what we did during that day, then how can we explain Precognitive Dreams (also known as Precognition), which is when a person is able to see a future event that has not occurred yet in their dreams. Also do precognitive dreams occur during REM sleep or Non-REM sleep? Can you just do a video talking about Precognition
So, here I am, 2 am, watching science of dreaming... -.-''
weird XD it is 2 AM where I live right now as-well what a coincidence..
A couple weeks ago my mom had a dream that I taught our dog to speak. This was the exchange between them:
Aiko (lil pupper): mommyyy, my footie hurts
Mom: Oh, what footie, this footie?
Aiko: no, this footie
That's it. She woke up in the middle of the night to tell us this. And tbh I wish you could hear the voice of my dog because it's so dumb and cute, text don't do it justice.
Have you done a video on body paralysis when you're between being awake and asleep? I've had this happen to me a few times. Its weird because I don't know if my eyes are open or not but I can see the room from where I'm lying on the bed, but I can't move. It's weird and I can't remember the actual name for it... I think it's body paralysis or sleep paralysis.
that happened often to me when i was 3 or 4 years old. Never knew it was an actual thing, I just thought it was a normal dream, just placed to look exactly like real life.
oh, that is horrible especially if you're having a bad dream, and can't wake yourself up!😥
REM atonia. Usually you are unconscious by the time REM atonia kicks in, but sometimes you are still conscious. Scary. But once you know what it is, it can be a doorway to lucidity.
When I was like 6 I had a dream where I went outside, and to see spider man, he picked me up, put me in a baby carriage and stringed me to it, I woke up went back to sleep, then had a dream where a mystical portal came into my room and an evil piñata version of plankton ( from spongebob) I screamed in my dream and my mom came it and destroyed him with a bat....yeah, I was weird when I was 6 😂😂😂
Nice dream
Lochlann Kilkenny Thank You XD
Natasha Buckley
Your welcome
I find it amazing you can remember something from when you were 6. A dream, even.
I laughed so hard I almost spit milk all over my computer.
So if dreaming helps your brain connect seemingly unrelated events that happened that day....
Why did I have a dream about skiing, falling in love with anime guys, and breaking floors, when I didn't ski, watch anime, or break any floors that day?
because internet
I like that when we're awake, we think wtf did I just dream, yet the you in your dream has this entire history that you can't remember when you're awake. This makes the scenarios in your dream feel as if it made perfect sense to the dream you, but not the woken you.
Wait, so then what's up with Nightmares?
This the part that I go to sleep.
What about sleep walking? I have vivid dreams and I'm never paralyzed (as most of my family members say when they see me sleeping and dreaming) I'm actually kicking around during my dreams, having conversations (as my brother has said) with myself and MOST OF ALL sleep walking.
REM Atonia, :)
What is that?
Well, REM Atonia is your body paralyzing to quit you from acting out your dreams (you must know this) but when your REM atonia is not getting through to your body well
you know :3
Oh lol... I feel dumb now lol. Thank for the nice reply. I've been getting nice replies all day must be a holiday or something on TH-cam where everybody respects each other lol
Haha, just maybe. :)
Last night, I had a dream in which I broke into someones house to steal some shit (which is counter to my usual personality, I'm a good dude.) with two people. I couldnt see them very well as it was dark but, apparently knew them and we busted into said house effectively. The people in the house however heard and came to investigate, and we all scattered, hiding in the house. When the lights turned on, I was in my own house, I was found first by my family and when I professed that I was here with two other people, we went to look for them. I found them... but they were action figures... I broke into my own house, to steal my own shit, with two inanimate objects I believed to be speaking to me. What the fuck?
hahahaha thats a great dream
My favorite lucid dream I had was when I turned myself into a mermaid, or at least something that can breathe and talk underwater. The moment I started swimming I knew I was dreaming so I just made the most out of it. LOVED THAT DREAM.
Once I dreamed that I went to my 3-year-old cousin's birthday party in a raft (a big, blow-up one. I don't know why... they live about two hours away from me, and with no water [other than perhaps a puddle] in between), and I really hated someone there. Then I discovered that the muffins being served at the party exploded if I threw them into the raft correctly. So I brought the person I didn't like into the raft, and exploded them via muffins. The strangest part was, I ate a muffin. AND I LIKED IT. I. HATE. MUFFINS.
The only times I have lucid dreams are at the height of nightmares. For example, right as the crazy axe murderer is about to get me, I suddenly realize "Oh wait, this is a dream. I can just wake up and this horrifying experience will be over."
And then I wake up.
It's a strange experience.
happens to me too, and it feel good to stop nightmares like that
A couple times I have had those sort of dreams I get a "Game Over" screen when I wake up... Like, actual text and stuff... Then I wake up.
How come sometimes while dreaming, someone will be touching my shoulder and it will feel real but isn't?
hoping to dream of hank giving a lecture and then punishing me for forgetting my homework....
Two related questions: what do blind people dream with?
And, how do blind people think? (Using the premise that we usually think with pictures, sounds, odors, etc. and the "mentalese" theory)
Go look at tommy edison's channel he explains it
I think blind people dream with sounds
Sounds and sensations, the way I hear it.
manamaster6 If they were born blind I've no clue,but if they had memories of vision before their blindness I'd imagine they at least have occasional dreams involving vision.
havn't slept in 3 days, feel great, don't tell me what to do, must drink more monster
organ failure ? we must perform more tests... *please lye down on this M-1 roll-in system Ambulance Cot* *thank you* Now for experiments :) hehehe...
Check out his video about caffiene before u take a nap
One night I was dreaming about meeting a whole bunch of TH-camrs at a park. We were waiting for PewDiePie to show up and then he called us and told us he was lost. So I went out of the park (when I left it turned into my house) and then I realized I was in a dream. I realized I had full control over everything. So then I flew higher and higher and then I woke up. I was SOOOOOOOOOO MAAAAAAAADDDDDDDD! It was the first time I had ever had one of those dreams!!
It's called Lucid Dreaming! I've had that once before and I was flying too :D Amazing.
Yeah well, it was the first lucid dream I've ever had. And it was recent actually. Other dreams I've had little or no control.
The 1 Realm of Retro! I think if you are aware of your dream even if you don't have control that means it's Lucid. I have different states of Lucid dreams where I know I am dream with no control, to having some control, but follow the rules of that dream, to complete control.
Bernadette Emery
interesting
Some people are doing well if they can manage to be lucid while completely awake.
After watching this and hearing him say 'go take a nap, it's good for you' or whatever I promptly took a nap and now I feel like a marvelous human being. Thank you hank green. 💖
Sometimes when i have a dream, a week or so later IRL, the dream comes true. I can see the future o.o
your dream is basically a vision? cool...
Someone else had that same thing and he had a dream about a bomb at a building he contacted Homeland Security and told them where he drempt of the bomb and it was actually there.
well, things like that have also happened to me, I dont think it is freaky, its not like it is witchcraft or voodoo, I should not continue, for some peoples sake. more involves what you believe and what you dont... that is the only way I know how to put it.
been there, done that.
Theminecraftian772 Voodoo or witchcraft? If yes, it is not really suprising. Earth is automatically strange.
sleep paralysis sucks. ....it sucks.
Most people experience a feeling that some outside entity is forcing them down (like a ghost or something) but every time it has happened to me, i was just mad as shit I couldnt move and felt really uncomfortable, then fell back asleep.
A couple of days ago I had trouble sleeping because of the wind. I had just a little of trouble because just once in a while I woke up but then fell asleep again. Until I decided that it was enough with the wind and wanted to close my window. So I stood up, closed it but while I was standing near the window I somehow fell asleep again. I fell down on a chair that caught me. Then the noise I made woke me up and I realized what happened and went to bed again. Was that some form of delayed sleep paralysis or something??
John doe its the worst =( always happen to me. i hate it
Nicole Roudergue have you ever gotten the auditory hallucinations? i once thought i heard a thousand horny bees brandishing vibrators. BZZZZ!
John doe That is actually the sound of your pineal gland buzzing o_o... It's like "Wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub"
So... when I dream about being a shape shifting witch ninja on another planet with a nebula for a sky and fighting hordes of demons hell bent on conquering the local elves and fairies for their demonic dragon queen, I'm dreaming about what I did that day?
While i doubt the validity of THAT dream in particular, you dream more about what you THOUGHT about that day, which includes what you did. But, if the idea of a shape-shifting witch ninja fighting demons crossed your mind, then hey, i don't see why you wouldn't dream about that at some point.
Well 1. LOL and 2. You could've been talking to your friends and had conversations with them that were weird. Then your brain connected to them with a ninja. Maybe a couple of days later you went to a cathlic church who fight off demons from the inside and connected to that with the ninja and starting thinking about a witch. Then your brain could've tried to see what it feels like to do what you thought of before. It's just about what you think and what happens around you xD.
LoonInTheMoon don't even ask why I dream about being eaten by a Godzilla-T-rex. And why I happen to be a vampire in said dream, so it's not a big deal that I got eaten. Just... Why Brain? Why? Also the pink carpeted drug hotel that was the demonsaur's inside. With flying fish outside the window. Normal human activities... Nothing weird here... The closest I have come to that is not at all!!! Why!?
My dreams are always ridiculous, but these are a few favorites:
- The lead singer from Slipknot showed up at my Girl Scout camp.
- A guy was stalking me--though he was probably some sort of fantasy villain and not an everyday creeper--and I'd only just confronted him when I woke up.
- My class was stuck in something that was a cross between The Hunger Games and the novel Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein. We were left in the woods to survive, with the implication that we were supposed to kill each other (like in The Hunger Games,) but instead we started forming a colony (like in Tunnel in the Sky.) But then after a while, some boys became convinced that the grownups watching us were going to destroy us all, and they started killing everybody.
It's rather interesting, but it is entirely possible to have lucid dreams on purpose.
Just set your alarm clock about an hour before usual, wake up, stay up for like 5 minutes, then go back to sleep. Chances are, you'll experience a lucid dream.
So there any science behind muscle spasms that causes people to lurch forward just as they are about to fall asleep? Kind of like the body is trying to stop itself from tripping. At least I hope its some people and not another one of those habits thats exclusive to me.
***** Ah thankyou that actually makes perfect sense. The times it most happens is when my arm is under my pillow and my head (I lay on my side), I bet my legs probably shift causing me to lose balance.
***** I've also had this problem, except it feels more like I'm falling than tripping. This would explain that, too?
I have this sometimes, and I always have the exact same dream when it happens, that I'm walking along the apex of a roof and one leg slips - then my leg jerks violently in real life and I wake up!
LizTiddington Suppose it could be worse my sister sleep walks, it was like growing up in a horror movie. Sister would run around the house yelling nonsense until someone turned on the light.
Rob Lena creepy.
I had a dream that my mom helped a mailman kidnap me by carrying me up a wall 😐
As a child I was killed by an old house, and another time my older sister hand cuffed my to an electric fence, and turned it on. Now when I sleep I keep going to prison, that may not really be a prison... It's pretty odd to me.
I don't dream every time I sleep Is that a bad thing?
no
You do dream. You just don't remember them.
Do you have irregular sleeping patterns or are they typically routine? (early to bed, early to rise will yield the most). At one point I went from dreaming every night to a 12hr midnight shift and rarely dreamed for 3 years, until I went back to a normal schedule.
what normal schedule i go to bed around 8ish 9ish o'clock and wake up at 7 on week days and i always will wake up at like 3 o'clock in the morning and wont be able to go back to sleep till like five sometimes i don't even go back to sleep i just end up lying awake till 7 then on fridays i will sometimes stay up till like 12 or so (i lie probly like 11:30) and watch youtube then on the weekends cant sleep in its not pocible but i end up wakeing up at like 7:30 and try to go back to sleep but it dosen't work so i just go on my computer so again i ask you what normal schedule.
That seems normal enough (aside from the waking up at 3am part). When I say 'normal', I just mean a steady sleeping pattern that follows your circadian rhythm. And for the most part it sounds like you do. There are many reasons you could be waking up at 3am, I don't know you so I couldn't even wager a guess. For most people, the REM (dream) cycle starts just a couple hours before their usual wake time. This would explain why you wouldn't remember dreams if you've woken at 3am. (I am NOT a doctor, so take what I say with a grain of salt. I have merely been passionate about the subject most of my life.) It is possible that diet, medication or environmental factors are inhibiting your melatonin production. Stress can also override melatonin's usefulness.
Aside from the waking up at 3am it sounds 'normal'. You are missing your REM sleep. But there is a lucid dreaming technique - though is easier if you are already practicing lucid dreaming - called the "Wake Back To Bed" method, that may be able to help you. Some lucid dreamers will intentionally set there alarm clock to just a couple hours before they usually wake up, walk around for a couple minutes (not fully wake up) and go back to sleep, inducing lucid dreaming using whatever method you are comfortable with. This all may not be much help. If you have any other questions I will surely reply. But not tonight, I have a test to study for. Cheers and sweet dreams.
so that is why I'm so stupid in my dreams? My prefrontal cortex isn't working?
Im very stupied in dreams, expessially when i was about 5-6 years old. I remember once i dreamed a valcono arupted outside the lakehouse and i knew i was dreaming but i still thought i was gonna die, so i begged my mom to make me wake up. When i woke up i was like WTF
scourgevsfirestar I used to have nightmares and realise I was dreaming by the end and keep asking people how to wake up but I could never do it :(
Is it common to have those kind of dreams or something? LOL
Isabel Kleijberg nah your just dumb.
In all seriousness yes.
so napping in school will help us understand more? new it
Try napping in English class.
wow mr. sassypants. not everything is an essay, now go away
I know we should just have sleeping class
Love watching your channel. Please can you maks episodes on how to get better sleeping routines, how to become a morning person and good study techniques?
I once had a dream that people were interested in my meaningless dreams, opinions and life.
You still dreaming.
i had a weird dream about a virus... it was a scary virus. .____.
Waking up crying sucks. that happens to me way to often... lol. thanks brain I guess I need a good cry.... You jerk brain.
I like my dreams when I’m in space and I’m not me. And it’s like I’m watching a movie with many character’s stories.
So if I fall asleep in class I'll do better cuz' I do that anyway.
In high school I used to sleep in math class and answer my teachers questions. She thought it was funny as hell so she always asked me AFTER I slipped into that barely asleep stage.
OMG thats so funny!
i dreamed of Jay-z in a banana suit. singing one of his songs from his new album
well, i'd like to know about sleep paralysis.
One time I had a crazy dream but right before I woke up I said to the people in the dream, "Bye!", or, "Bye, I'm gonna wake up now!"
What the heck am I the only Lucid Dreamer here! I have Lucid dreams mostly every night.
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS!
I can't lucid dream.. :(
Tell me. HOW?
How the hell does everyone remember their dreams! Is it just me who forgets?
No
can someone tell me what the fuck night terrors are
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror
ok thanks i suffered them when i was little
must have been nice.. all gone now ?
aal but weardly i have had rarely any dreams or nightmers since its all just black darkness
matthew mac well in that case, you're not alone. Start writing them up, keep a pen and some paper near your bed, write down even the tiniest bits you remember. Eventually your brain will develop a habit of remembering dreams. Did that for a while, but got lazy, so pitch black for me again. :D
I lucid dream for like 90% of my drams and always wanted to know why! Thanks Hank this was REALLY helpful!!!!!!!
Sleep is good for me but too much sleep is bad for me even though I just woke up
Can we stop talking about Sigmund Freud? Science has basically proven all of his theories wrong and completely ridiculous. But he is still constantly mentioned in scientific topics as if his ideas have any credibility. Might as well bring up Santa Claus and unicorns as well...
Like Aristotle.
I have to say, Lucid dreaming is amazing. I get it quite frequently and it really has helped the creative side of me as well. Example of a situation: My father was teaching me how to drive stick as my first time driving. I went to bed and dreamed of being able to operate the clutch, petal, and shiftier fluently. I woke up the next day and told my Father I want to give it another shot, that I feel like I know what to do. To his amazement I was able to work it very well for my second time trying!
I have been driving stick ever sense. Amazing stuff
There's been times my mom would be stuck in a game and then would have a dream about what she had to do, it worked too.
I would like to know what causes those dreams in which you think you are awake but arent and you 'wake up' many times in the dream until you finally do. It happens to me often
In my dream I actually realized I was dreaming once... then I think the part that controls all of that went back to sleep and I forgot almost immediately after I couldn't think of what to do.
Annoying everytime I do have a lucid dream I end up waking up almost immediately...
Probably one of the more important videos SciShow has done... interesting stuff, and how have I never heard any of this stuff on other talks/videos about sleep? I feel like all I ever hear is "its important".
I've never had a dream (for what I've remembered) that was actually boring or was repetitive. When you say REM sleep, it makes me think that some people are different in that they have a more creative mind or not really that but a shorter attention span. While dreaming, it seems that it would be the opposite, but when I was younger, my dreams were repetitive and sometimes boring, but as my brain developed, my dreams began to be more complex, memorable, and creative. I honest don't remember having a scary dream in at least 9 years! Until I was about 7, my dreams were the same and occurred multiple times every month or year. I have not had a repeated or even repetitious dream in soooooo long now. I believe (although test cannot be done) my mind is more complex than others (and many other are definitely the same) in a what that I can think and understand people mentally and understand what they are thinking and what the are feeling through experience, situation, and simply a feeling I don't understand. Honestly I wish people understood how much differently my mind (and certain others that can actually understand this) works than the average human. Although no one really knows, I feel that there is no way for me to let anyone know about how he mind truly works and how others do as well. I know this sounds like absolute gibberish but I have no words that can truly explain my feelings. If I could, I would just sit and watch the world and watch people and think about the mind and think about all the things that I just can't comprehend. If I were to just sit down and think, people would think I'm crazy. If I could I wouldn't do work. I would literally just think for the rest of my life and just dream. My favorite thing in the world is honestly thinking. I have already planned a book talking about the mind and how social interaction affect the brain with simply observing my surrounding and being in all of these situations in my life. My attention span it very short unless I am just thinking. I am one of the best readers I know but I would rather just think and talk to people that understand me than read. Even the most complicated and complex stories in books just don't satisfy me. I know I went a little of topic but I really hope you read this comment. I don't think you need to put this into real concise ration but it would be really cool to think about wouldn't it. The hard part about connecting and understanding people is over the internet, but I still understand. Sometimes it would be cool to be normal, but I think I am lucky.