One of the things I've noticed about dreaming, when you're in a dream, no matter how bizarre it is, it seems perfectly rational, but if you wake up and remember that dream, you're more likely to go WTF?.
@@shadw4701 I lucid dream sometimes but it's rare I mostly have normal dreams but it's still cool that I can lucid dream and I kinda wanna do it at will
@@shadw4701 it's said that before lucid dreaming tell yourself you're going to lucid dream. And when I kept doing it while sleeping I was in blank space where I didn't know if I was asleep or I was awake but i couldn't control it what does it mean 🤔
@@Htiy I saw my guts spilling out and woke up all sweaty It was 4 at night from what I remembered and my heart was beating so fast I couldn't fall asleep again My friend said that it might have been a night terror (like sleep paralysis) It made me paranoid for a week because the dream happened in front of my house That's all I remember, as for the attacker I can't remember him/her
As someone who’s very in touch with their dreams, lucid dreaming, remembering them etc, I think at least for myself that dreams allow your brain to practice learned things (foreign languages, driving, a task at work for example) and also sometimes it can have an inherit meaning that only you can understand, maybe it resurfaces feelings you’ve pushed down, and I think it’s a healthy and important practice, a window to your mind and soul.
Absolutely! It's like playing 'dream legos' with our daily thoughts and experiences, mixed in the same tub with long-term-memory blocks, but instead of building houses, we're trying permutations of problems and solutions. When I took Mandarin in college, i already had small kids and very little (no) time to study at home, but i found that writing the characters on index cards and reviewing them 5 mins before bedtime, they would settle in my head and then i would automatically end up 'practice' writing them in my sleep, over and over (i remember watching my outstretched hand in my dream, drawing them). If I picked up those cards and spent 2 mins reviewing them while i peed/woke up, i knew them for the test every single time. And if i did that every night for a week or so, they stayed permanently.
@@bmnthat why do you think so? I’m curious. I also experienced getting stuck in my dreams, and I often feel like I just lived a whole different life and I wake up exhausted… so I get what you mean, but any basis? Religious/spiritual?
@@bmnthat I've been actively lucid dreaming for 35 years. Your own personal experience says that it's bad for everyone. My own personal experience says it's 100% completely fine.
When I was in high school there was this geometry problem that I couldn't solve. I dreamed about the solution and answer and after waking up, I did it exactly as I saw it and got it correct!
In lucid dreams you become aware of time. In normal dreams, you have no awareness of time. Whenever I experience a lucid dream, I become aware that I’m about to wake up and have a limited amount of time left in the dream state.
.....im asking for a friend will you hear people who are actually talking to you like i mean physically there talking to you while your sleeping can you hear them in your dreams
@@alexandriarennie5992 absolutely yes, I almost always fall asleep wearing headphones listening to TH-cam and very often I realize that people in a dream discuss the same topic I hear in the video while sleeping
I once dreamt I had a group of friends that I hung out with over several nights. Once I stopped the dreams, I missed them like crazy for a few weeks and still do a little bit 20 years later. Crazy.
Same, sometimes i dream about person which I'm sure i know, and when i wake up I'm starting to question myself did i knew that person at some point of time or if it was just a dream person. Really confusing. :)
@@milosstojanovic4623 I know of what you speak my friend. To awake from a dream, trying to hold onto the fleeting memories of a life, and a wife, different from this world to varying degrees. Then, as this reality asserts itself onto your consciousness, you could almost weep from the grief of the loss... Someday, we will wake to find that this life will have been that fading dream.
Me too, i used to have a dream about a group of people that i really liked to be with them Some years later i dreamed that they went on cuz i never returned, when i woke up i felt so sad and melancholy
When I was taking antidepressants, I would have really interesting dreams. Every night after falling asleep, it was like entering a parallel life, a life that was as chronological and continuous as my real life, only it happened in my dreams. I was a student, I had family, I knew where my dorm room was and the way to the shopping centre, I knew which place had the best pizza and when to catch public transport. But none of it was real. It was all just a massive, immersive, continuous dream, and I lost that world - and that life - once I came off the antidepressants.
You know, through the power of lucid dreaming, you can get that world back. If you don't know, lucid dreaming is when you're aware that you're in a dream. And once you become aware, you can potentially control that dream, you can do whatever you want. The only limit is your own imagination. So then, you can go back to that "parallel life" you had way back when, if you dedicate yourself to lucid dreaming that is.
@@childofgod5153 i had a lucid dream but i could only consciously control myself and i had a sense of logic and reality unlike most of my dreams but i couldnt control what happened in that dream only my own actions
@@childofgod5153 i had a nightmare once, that out street got attacked by armed men, forcefully went inside our houses and started randomly shooting people. It felt so real. But when I realized I was dreaming, as I was about to get shot in the dream, I sorta "controlled" the dream and I froze time in the dream. Everyone and everything was still until I conjured up a vehicle in my dream (which is also self driving because I can't drive well) and I got out of our street, and that's when I woke up.
@Mia I have the same thing except it isn't due to antidepressants. It's just my brain I guess & mine isn't a nice place it sucks and it's been going on for years now. The good thing is I've been going there so long that I know routes and shortcuts to take when danger is imminent. The thing is I've grown to kind of love it too. Not the bad parts obviously but more the familiarity. I know sh*t's gonna go down. I know the likely scenarios that could play out and as I say there is an element of safety in knowing that you know the playing field. It's good to see somebody else who also has experienced these long-term dreams. It really is a parallel life 🤷♀️😊
our souul travel during dreams - so u might actually been there or will be - the antidepressant cause the body to relax even more - so the soul don't need to worry to "operate"it
I have insomnia and have always had problems with sleeping, and as a result I can remember about 2-3 dreams every single night very vividly. It’s gotten to a point where I am constantly confusing dreams with real life and spend more of my life asleep then awake. It’s so strange because the emotions, feelings and situations just feel so real.
Start praying and seeking Gods face. God is calling you to the prophetic ministry and has given you special abilities that He wishes to share with you. I say this because the same thing had happened to me and when I had started praying and asking God for answers, it seemed to be answered in other dreams. And I shall pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Your old men shall dream dreams and young men have visions. Thats Gods promise to you. The old men part is only because its related to interpretation coz the dream is symbolic. Older people are better at interpreting since wisdom comes with age.
I’m trying to get back into lucid dreaming. Kinda had success last night, but mostly just improving my dream recall and consistently doing a reality check throughout the day. Last night I looked down at my hands in my dream and actually got kinda terrified because they didn’t look right. Woke up for a moment, but went right back to sleep into the same dream. I was in like a quiet dark campground that was quite beautiful actually with like wild rabbits for example, but then I felt like I was being chased by some demon. Was probably a low level of lucidity hence why I was scared of something that didn’t exist. The monster caught me though, stabbed it’s like needle hand through my back and picked me up. I was so terrified and just accepted my death and wished for it to be quicker. Then I woke up in a hot sweat on the floor because I’m camping and I somehow had the blanket like bundled up under my back screwing up my posture. Funny how dreams always imitate real life like with the settings and all. I’ve been seeing these wild rabbits a lot at home too. Anyways, here to my next dream not being a terrifying nightmare.
Among other things, I'm amazed at how complex dreams can be. Sometimes the storytelling in my dreams are especially convincing, lifelike and coherent, when I can't even write a simple story sober.
It's because nothing is 'real', dreaming or not dreaming. 'Dreams' are just our brains continuing its normal operation. Our brains do not feel conscious, we do. Hence dreams are not different from reality. The difference is that our sense organs are less sensitive when we sleep. Why do we sleep? To maintain our cells. Why do we need our cells maintained? To stay alive. Why do we need to stay alive? It has never been and will never be our decision. Its all about our genetic encoding. What are we then? POV: If we were created, it might be possible that our creators do not know that we feel conscious.
that is, i think, because there are supercomputers rendering a lot of these more complicated dream movies and sending them using rnraw remote neuron writing- seems crazy but anytime your finger m,uscle for exmaple moves you get a sense of how widespread although secretly this nano remote neuron reading and writing tech must be - gday Blitzy
@@kosiilondu That is some weird and very wrong simplification... "Why do we sleep? to maintain our cells.." yeah sure... All of that is your idea, or something from one book, or maybe a few books? No one really knows what consciousness is, and no one really knows the true relation between consciousness and the brain, but almost all agree that there is a strong connection, almost all agree that if we can say for some part of the body that represents us, that is the brain... You can change a hip, a leg, an arm, you can change almost everything on your body, but you will still be you because you are your brain. And, according to your logic dreams are different than what we experience while awake just because sensory data is out, so you are saying that dreams are hallucinations? Because that is the definition of hallucination, perception without sensory data present... No, things are way more complicated...
@jean8226 That is total nonsense. Try learning biology, neurology, and psychology and maybe you will not be so confused. We have a psyche, that is a product of our brain, there is no soul, souls do not exist.
I had a really similar experience to the tetris experiment. I played some games of tetris with my friends and when I was a sleep I was constantly picturing playing a game of tetris, I swear I could even picture the exact pieces fitting together and the lines clearing.
Mate I was so into Skyrim and obvilion that I would be playing in my dreams and it was so so real.thing is I don't dream normally but my wife said I would be moving like I'm trying to use a bow and arrows.like trying to hide behind trees.i had the same with gta 5.i still don't really dream but if I do it's real as real can be.
Wow, I thought the weirdest thing that happens to people (at least everyone I ever knew and talked about it) is that we don't dream about technology. No TV's, no phones, computers etc. My whole life, my passion is built on technology. I'm a digital artist, I'm a gamer but I never dreamt about it, there was never any kind of electronic device present in my dreams.
i've lost my close friend in an earthquake and had several dreams throughout this past two years. And everytime she appeared looking at me with a smile and hugged me , felt so real and magical that made my heart happy .i think dreams really help you keep going in life ,accept and survive.
When I was taking my final exam of my degree course, I'd done a huge amount of revision. However, during the night before, I had a dream about the paper, and I saw the topic of the first question, one I'd not revised. On the hour bus ride to the exam I read everything that I had on the topic. I opened the paper...yes, you've guessed, the topic was...the first question! Had it not been for the dream, I'd not have covered the topic, rather an obscure one. In fact, I was the only one who had studied it, and I got my best marks on that question. Why did I dream that I wonder? Glad I did though.
That has happened to me, I once saw a dream of randomly opening a page of my physics book and hadn't read that line. The next day, a question came from that exact line😂 and i was really happy.
Once, our VCR was having tracking issues, but it had no manual controls listed on the device or remote. That night i dreamt of fixing it using the channel up and down buttons, and sure enough, when I woke up and tried them they worked. While playing a tape the channel buttons doubled as tracking control. Not solving a world mystery, but still gave me some interesting insight into how my brain works.
The environments in my dreams are often incredible. Both architecture and nature are really detailed and the lighting and atmosphere are breathtaking. It's really interesting and kind of frustrating because I am an artist and when I'm awake, I really struggle with painting good environments. I'm much better at drawing people than places, but in my dreams it's the other way around.
Same here. Ever since I've watched the building twisting and folding effects in doctor strange, inception etc and time travel in movies, my dreams are often non linear stories where reality is warping in ways prohibited by physical laws. Also, having read some of Jung's work, i love to identify the patterns in my dreams and am always amazed by how on point most of the stuff is
When my great grandmother passed, I had a dream about her and I literally woke up with tears in my eyes. That kind of freaked me out but it felt so real and just hearing her voice felt so real. I’ve never experienced something like that before. I’ve had plenty of dreams but nothing like that. Great video btw EDIT: Thank for all the comments. I really wasn't expecting much attention from it, but it feels really reassuring knowing I'm not alone in this experience. Also, to anyone who has lost someone or even a pet, I sincerely hope you are feeling better.
What a wonderful experience! I hope you never forget that. I remember once after struggling with depression and injuries related to being hit by a drunk driver that I woke up laughing. That’s never happened before or since, but I learned then that dreams are powerful!
I never realized that so many people experience sleep paralysis - it's crazy how vivid and frightening those experiences can be. It's comforting to know I'm not alone, though, and this video gave me some helpful tips for dealing with it
Mind understanding is that sleep paralysis is there to help protect us from hurting ourselves in our sleep, but sometimes the amount of that is off so we can "stuck" like that after we awake
@@yashdahima1254 i experienced SP regulary UNTILL.....1 Night i went with it...i didnt fight or struggle as we do (in our mind), i relaxed and just went with the flow... I felt pressure under my armpits then was flying around the room, trying to get to my sisters room to go "hey, look at me".... It then ended and i awoke in this bizzarre position, as if id been dragged up by the underarms.. Never had it since......all true..
I once had a dream where I said to my dad "Time is 1 dimensional, you can control your future by being ready for tomorrow". It's a bit weird, but I can kinda see what that means.
You said such a basic truism to your said in a dream? And his answer was laughing and sarcastically answering something like, "bravo, you discovered a hot water..."?
I've been recording my dreams since I was a child, about 20 years. I used to have nightmares and extreme anxiety dreams every night. For years I was plagued by these, until I finally figured out how to control them. Before I even knew what lucid dreaming was, I was able to nearly master it. A decade passed before I learned what I had taught myself to do was such a complex ability. I haven't had a nightmare in 15 years. A few anxiety dreams here and there, but nothing I wake up terrified over. And a lot of my dreams have felt prophetic, but I'm fairly certain that's just due to my incredible sense of intuition.
Ya, I have what I think are prophetic dreams sometimes, but I used to lucid dream on accedent and it was not good. Like, I had lucid nightmares or just ones i wish i didnt have. And that was before i knew what lucid dreaming was, and I hated them. They made me scared to go to sleep. I had control over them, but at the same time they seem to have had a mind of there own.
Yeahh, I'm pretty sure most "prophetic dreams" are just your brain taking your recent experiences and gained information, and extrapolating future events based on that information and experience. But I'm just a dude, not a scientist.
My dreams are always the same. Very vivid, full of people I don’t know and I’m always trying to find something in a place I don’t know. I’ve given up trying to rationalize them out when I wake up. They don’t help me with anything. They just are.
Never had nightmares until I hit my 20s. Sometimes I’d wake up, not remembering what it was but close to tears (once, I did cry) and extreme levels of discomfort, like I wasn’t safe. It would sometimes drive me crazy not being able to remember because I’m curious as to what could’ve been so terrifying that I’m crying. I’d have an inkling of what happened as I awaken but it slips out of my grasp the more aware I get.
Interesting. Nightmares and I are old friends, since I had night terrors as a kid; I would literally get out of bed and start acting out the dream, like running away from something. We had to have a baby gate at the top of the stairs for a long time as a result. I don't remember those early nightmares, but I do remember a few of my most common scary/unnerving dreams I've had since I was a teen; losing control of a car and crashing is a common one when my life feels out of my control in general
@@zacharytang3840 I have a phobia of being possesed because of my past dreams. I think one reasin its such a big phobia is because i turned against them when i started middle school, and I had bad angziety about a bunch stuff then. Most of my phobias ive gotten over, but it will be a miricle when I get over that one. Now I have nightmares about it so it started all over again. I also was scared for a weak after seeing a micky mouse charictors scull fly out of there head in a dream. I was so grossed out. My brain was trying to make a gross dream that night lol. He turned into a ghost and suddenly decited he wanted to kill his wife that he just saved from a crushing thingy.
I once told my friend group that my dreams during test weeks were usually me literally repeating what I have been studying (with all my review materials). After explaining to them, some thought I was a weirdo, others thought I had an eidetic memory, and I thought I found the best way to study. I always did well on my exams.
My older sister always did her math homework in the morning, much to my mom's ire. "Why didn't you finish your homework last night!") She said she processed it in her dreams, and she could finish the assignment when she woke up.
I did my best on my exams when I got tipsy the night before. Partied at Shakey’s Pizza the night before a physical geography test and aced it next morning. The highest other grade was 70.
My daughter has a nightmare at least four days a week, and she remembers so many of all of her dreams with such great detail. I can rarely remember, and most of mine just involve me interacting with people who have passed away.
I often dream of people that I don't recognise, and wonder if my brain is really good at creating very realistic people or if they are someone I saw somewhere but didn't consciously register. I also dream of amazing architecture that also doesn't exist anywhere, these dreams leave me wishing that I was able to capture a detailed "screen shot" as after I wake up the details slowly fade and I can't draw well enough to do them justice.
I *always* ♾ find dreams have *inferable, hidden information* 🕵🕵🕵 that is *not directly perceived* 🤐🤐🤐 about *the dream world* 🌍🌍🌍. E.g. Character 👤🪞 motivations ❓, modus/modi operandi 🛣🛣🛣, the validity ✅❌ of a statement 📑 within the dream, etc. Dreams 💤 are primarily logic 🤔 puzzles 🧩🧩🧩. By nature of a dream being a logic 🤔 puzzle 🧩, the characters are *always* very realistic, especially in terms of behaviour and motivations, as you need to be able to infer the hidden information from what you know. Nonsense characters would prevent that from being true.
There was a stage where I dreamt about flying a lot. I could lift myself from earth and fly high above my house and trees. It was the most wonderful feeling everytime. Haven't had that dream recently. I can also control my dreams and if it is a nasty dream I can tell myself it is only a dream and wake myself..
I can also wake myself up on command and even slightly open my eyes for a moment but I can’t see anything but light, I also had a flying dream, it started in a spaceship with alien animals (I was a dragon like one) and then I left the ship to fly in these cloud,y bright hills and through ruins, the weirdest part is that I had to actually flap my arms and it was kind of hard work but I never got tired
I've tried to wake myself and yelling comes out as mumbling. That's usually when the girlfriend wakes me up. One that I remember is a demon came in my room and charged me and hit me and I flew out my window backwards in slow motion over my back yard. The weird thing was I saw a chicken in my backyard. The next day there was a chicken in my backyard. I don't live in a rural area and I don't know where it came from. I left it and the next day it was gone.
I had tons of dreams in which i flied and many of them were lucid ones. Especially during quarantine so i guess it had to do smth with the quarantine. Anyways i still have a strange habit, where i "start to fly" but then remember im not dreaming and can't just magically float. Most of my flying dreams were set in my school as well so that doesn't help lmao
I have had many lucid dreams over the years, more when I was younger. Something that Nancy Wilson of Heart said in "These Dreams" has haunted me a bit. "Funny how your feet in dreams never touch the earth" I don't know if I walk or float, though I think I float. Any dream walkers out there?
I can always tell when I am dreaming… I can even stop bad things from continuing to happen once I realize it’s all in my mind… I can even recognize I am in a dream and then make things I want happen. It’s amazing tbh
My cat has to be dreaming. She meows in her sleep sometimes. Her paws flicker like she is running. Sometimes the whole leg will move slightly and she does that chirping thing. I'm certain she is dreaming about chasing and catching some prey 😁
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 or maybe just watch the educational videos posted on this channel which have no bias because they're simply statements from someone interested in the topics and willing to share that knowledge.
As a gamer, I have had lots of gaming-related dreams. It’s interesting that the brain uses existing memories when conjuring up these scenarios, so I always assumed that it was an accidental bi-product of the increased electrical surges of REM sleep. Electricity restoring the brain, then accidentally activating neurones in the process, which our subconscious interprets as dreams. The subconscious being almost like an autopilot setting.
The last couple of weeks I’ve started sleeping on my back because of shoulder issues, and I noticed I remember my dreams every night when I do so. I actually hate dreaming and sleeping because most of my dreams are nightmares and I get a lot of sleep paralysis.
Interesting. I usually sleep on my side as well, especially when my sinuses are acting up, but maybe I'll have to try that. Just to remember better that is, not to try and get sleep paralysis; that does not seem from fun from what I have heard/read.
For me it's totally opposite, I like sleeping and dreaming. And never had any nightmare ....... Bad dreams, yes ( like a horror movie or school) but not a nightmare like where I woke up
Thank you for remembering me to try to sleep on my back if I want to remember dreams. Now that you pointed out I notice weeks when I slept on my shoulder and had nothing, but the last time I slept on my back I had multiple dreams.
One theory I've had about dreaming is that it's something like a diagnostic run through the brain's functions to gauge overall health, reinforce connectivity, and so on. It probably has a significant impact on our overall plasticity. I've always wondered what we'd find in experiments if we could disable REM and measure things like neural connectivity and activation, regeneration, and so on.
Our beloved Prophet Mohammed PBUH gave a completely different logic on Dreams "If you sees a dream that he likes, then it is from Allah, and he should thank Allah for it and narrate it to others; but if he sees a dream that he dislikes, then it is from Satan, and he should seek refuge with Allah from its evil, and he should not mention it to anybody, for it will not harm him". Sahih Al Bukhari Volume 9, Book 87, Number 114 An interesting dream of Prophet Mohammed PBUH, has been narated in Sahih Bukhari, volume 9, Book 87, Number 139 Narrated 'Aisha: Allah's Apostle said (to me), "You were shown to me twice in (my) dream. Behold, a man was carrying you in a silken piece of cloth and said to me, "She is your wife, so uncover her,' and behold, it was you. I would then say (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.
I frequently dream about sorting out work problems in methods that are mostly nonsensical on reflection, but one dream stands out regarding a wiring route in a complex hotel tower arrangement that I'd been trying to resolve in my head during the days working the site. I was at a complete loss until the dream explaining what to do came to me, and remembering it, I implemented the design, and it worked perfectly. This was in early 2003, and it hasn't happened since, and it counts as one of my life's most bizarre occurrences.
Dreaming is one of my favorite parts of life… Gets even more interesting when you keep a dream journal. Now you have your very own short stories. THEN, you can further those stories, interpret them, paint them, etc. The possibilities are endless…. Ahhh the smell of creativity is ripe!
I think when you sleep, you brain goes into repair and memory consolidation mode, and dreams are a glitch where you become slightly conscious enough to experience the neurons firing in that alternative state of mind. Same with hallucinogens, parts of your brain are communicating with each other that normally don't, and you're conscious enough to experience it. We just interpret the experience with our reasoning to get some sort of meaning or continuity, but there isn't.
In some of my dreams i did something that feels really ingenious but when i woke up that part of the dream is the part i never remember, i usually lie there conscious for a few minutes trying to make out what i did in that dream but often time i just forget the dream altogether and nothing makes sense anymore.
@Mom's Spaghetti i have thought about it this way and that is why i am here, from my point of view, sleep is needed to make you train your brain for tomorrow, just like AI needs training time and testing time(to train the neurons), so too the human brain, why waste a perfectly good 8 hrs of nighttime(in hibernation) when you could prepare for tomorrow's fight with a boar, with like a fake kung-fu training session(in a dream). The social thing is the same thing, preparing you for the things you wanted to accomplish better tomorrow, than you did yesterday, you may not understand dream logic, but i have seen it, it was my choice to put some of my close friends (schoolmates) in my dream, as was the choice of putting them in my kindergarden, and also of jumping over short skyscrapers (i needed some fast travel, from one chat room to another), my choice(as in my subconscious choice)... Everything in the dream seems perfectly logical, because you blindside yourself by asking your subconscious what is logical in the dream world, none is, it was made so you could understand the logic you had lack of, that is why it also helps with studying. The only thing this hypothesis lacks is explaining recurrent dreams(a 1 to 1 copy, otherwise it's just a continuation), or ones that are really upsurd( like just flying through the air or feeling like a tree, since that is only an experience, not really a thing you could learn better, but may help with spacial memory and mapping) And why can't it be all of the above why only two or three, as i see it "training for tomorrow" includes all of the other. (My how silly, those scientists can be)
I've always figured that some dreams were my brain sifting through fragments of what I thought about, playing the important ones into 'memories.' Like if I watched a 5 second ad about books I might dream about a library on fire, or if I drove past a corner field I might dream about living on a farm. I doubt this is the case for all dreams though, I rarely remember them with the meds I'm on.
There is at least one common dream trope: you're back in school, sitting for a final exam, and realize you didn't study and, perhaps, never attended a class. For me it goes further- In my dream I have a critical exam and not only haven't studied or attended class, but don't even know the room where the class was given or the room where the exam is taking place- totally lost!
Many (not all) of my dreams are about being ill-equipped or unprepared. They manifest in many different ways, but when I analyse them they nearly always come down to being ill prepared, not ready or organised ending in catastrophe. Very interesting.
Not mentioned is lucid dreams. I have had a few. The first time I was like, wow I am dreaming but I am totally in control. Not long after I had another, I decided I would try to fly. It was like the first time the great american hero tried to fly. After a few tries I got the hang of it. I was totally flying, incredible feeling.
I lucid dream most of the time because something about my dream clues me in to it being impossible. A fictional character being present, or the water on my local beach not being cold even though I live in maine. My brain is like "nope not possible, you are dreaming" I don't usually try to control it though... when the lucid dreams get scary I purposefully do not react... like as if my brain is refusing to give itself the satisfaction of reacting to the nightmare it created.
So? Is it normal to be able to lucid dream every night because I only recently found out some people aren't in control of their dreams whenever they want
I've been trying to lucid dream and I've been getting better at starting them, but as soon as I realize that I'm lucid dreaming, I get so excited I wake up :/
I am usually lucid dreaming and feel in control but whenever I am flying, I am 100% certain it is real. It never feels like a dream. It feelsl so natural. I am always annoyed when I wake up.
Sometime in my 20's I was able to recognize I was dreaming and not wake up. These "lucid" dreams continued well into my 50's. I turned most of them into flying dreams. If the dream became too intense it would wake me up. I've also had two dreams of dying, one on an ancient battlefield where I was hacked into pieces and the other being shot. It was very confusing to me to wake up after having been killed in a dream. I didn't ask myself 'where am I?' or 'who am I?'. My first thought was 'what am I?', and once I figured out what I was, things got clearer! It was bizarre....
Dude. My heart almost stopped when you said that. Bout not where or who or BUT WHAT AM I. I’ve said that Exact thing to my kids trying to explain what I felt once waking up. Like I had just came online. I dream every single time I sleep. But I’ve only ever felt that once. That’s very crazy that you said that. I even googled those exact words and only found one other person that said it. It had comments and many people said that that is true Ego Death. It’s a perspective. But I’ll NEVER forget that feeling. Just thought I’d share
I had to learn to do that from a very young age as I woke up terrified every night. Never saw bad things in real life, however saw them in dreams and half of the terror was not understanding what I was seeing so I literally had to take over my dreams and stay asleep to finish them. Soon after I could control them and even continue a dream the next night if it hadn't finished yet. As I got into my teenage years I had a lot of bedsheets to change 😂😂😂
I am a musician. I heard one night in a dream the most beautiful song I ever heard, but of course I couldn't remember it when I woke up. The feeling still haunts me though
I think it's important to remember that evolution just does its thing, it's just random things that develop, there doesn't need to be ONE use, if dreams help with all of this a bit it's useful enough to stay. It all seems a little different when you lucid dream because you basically hijack that machine of creativity and do what you want with it. And I can say from experience that dreams respond to emotions and expectations (subconscious ones mostly, but also conscious ones). It's kind of a look into the blackbox that's always running in the background of our thoughts
Felix Wankel had a dream as a 17 year old who had no knowledge of traditional combustion engines, in his dream he came up with the concept for the rotary engine which he later on in life created. Another famous example of dreams becoming reality.
My dreams are all over the place, sometimes vivid, lately my brain conjures some physically traumatic scenarios just to wake me up to use the restroom. It's a little too extreme.
I've been told I don't get enough oxygen when I sleep due to my irregular upper respiratory structure, which is why I black out when I close my eyes and make it very hard to wake up (I go through 5 alarms); I feel most rested with 12-14 hrs of sleep, has been that way all my life. But on the rare occasion I do dream, and usually an elaborate "movie". A week ago I was driving from the UK to Mauritania and got held up by rebels in Western Sahara. Another time I was Mario and saved Princess Peach before flying away on a crocodile. My dreams usually feel about 3 to 4 hours, and I've confirmed with one that was 4.5hrs
I have sleep apnea and I agree with you I go through these very long continuous dreams that last the entire night and it’s hard to wake up. I have to lose weight and lay off the cigarettes…
I can vouch for the Tetris thing. There was a point where I was hella addicted to Tetris 99, and for a while whenever I was in that in-between state where I was just about to fall asleep, I’d be seeing those blocks falling.
Im not addicted to Tetris, but yeah I have that with other games. Except there's always something annoying like super Mario that cant land on a block he just kept falling in my head
It always amazes me whenever I see a newspaper or a book in my dream because how my brain is able to put so much words together while I suck at art in real life
You know how memory experts can memorize and repeat a hundred random words by creating a story using said words? I feel like dreams are the same. But dreams are not just made of things you experienced in the last day or so. I think our brains create little stories every night to stop neural pathways to our memories from decaying.
I have a couple of places that I sometimes happen to visit from time to time in my dreams. They're completely made up yet the feel so real and I know them so well I could draw a detailed map. They are kind of a mix of many places of my childhood and some fantasy landscapes. Sometimes years pass between each time I visit them in my dreams and I get so emotional, it's like finding a long lost familiar place.
I see places in different dreams too. Also, people. Sometimes I make recurring friends. And, about once a year i dream I’m with my best friend and favorite actor….Nicole Kidman. Those are my favorite. ❤️🤟🏻
Solving something in a dream happened to me a couple of times in college while solving a problem in finding the error of my code on a program I'm working on. I can vividly remember the solution when I woke up. So I went to my computer, applied what i dreamt of, and just like magic.. everything worked perfectly. 😊😊😊
I write my dreams down since a few years, and I also write some interpretations. I'm often able to remember very much. Details, story, emotions, even thoughts. I remember my dreams often every day. I collected great stories, and I think I could compensate my very large lack of creativity and imagination with that ability and hobby. Dreams are very important and interesting for me. It's almost like I live two lives: One in our reality and one in the dream world. I feel a bit like Alice in Wunderland, which is also my favorite movie/fairytale of my childhood. I was so obsessed with this movie since I'm able to remember and my mother was so annoyed by that haha
Thank you so much for putting so many skits of what you’re talking about! Sometimes it’s hard for me to just listen to someone talk and the skits help me to understand it better! Thanks for all the knowledge 💯
I occasionally “dream” while “awake”, i will start dreaming yet at the same time awake enough to say to myself “why am dreaming this?” Its a very odd situation. As a long distance runner that often runs sleep deprived its no unusual to experience hallucinations - dreams while awake if you will. One more thing to think about: doubt humans are the only animals than dream - i know my dig does, the whoofs and even “runs” in his sleep, you back see his rapid eye movement under his lids, all dog owners know this.
I’m 44 and since I was a little kid I’ve dreamt about being in a Costco type store where people are scrambling for items when a scary militia comes in to round people up. I’ve always escaped into an apocalyptic city. It’s always terrifying. I live 200 miles from the nearest city now… I am not a prepper but those dreams are my most vivid and apparently guide some of my actions.
Yup. The only reason I dream now is if I’m in a middle ground between asleep and awake and if there’s an external stimuli going on, like an alarm going off or someone in the room, then my brain somehow forms a dream around that and puts that into the dream so I sleep through it… other than that, I don’t remember any dreams at all.
@@AluminiumPanda6 I always wonder why that happens on internet and my doctor have blamed me working late nights on my channel. On certain days and then sleeping in time on other.
one time i had a dream that i was standing at the edge of a cliff picking strawberries, and i reached out to grab one and i fell off. then i heard a squirell say "im coming" in a scary murderer type way which makes me think he was going to kill me. my sister threw a rope down, and i grabbed it and she pulled me up but the squirell chased me and tried to latch onto me before i could make it to safety. luckily i escaped just in time. it was one of the scariest dreams i have every had.
When I was young I used to have very vivid and seemingly long dreams. The kind of dreams that stay with you through out the day, you can't stop thinking about them. I used to write them down in a dream journal. As I got older, I seemed to have stopped dreaming (or more like, stopped REMEMBERING) my dreams. It makes me kind of sad, in a way. I used to go on strange adventures. There was one time where I had a dream about a particular house. It wasn't my house, or anyone I have known then or since. But I remember every detail. Then, one day several years after having said dream, and my Dad and I were driving down some back road of a small town we had never heard of to pick up a trailer my Dad was buying. And I swear....we passed by The House. EVERYTHING was as I remembered from my dream. Every detail. Down to the color of the curtains in the window. The number of flower pots on the porch. Everything. I had never been there before, but somehow, someway, I knew that house. I also used to dream about a particular town all the time. Not a real town, one that my brain created, but I used to have several reoccurring dreams that took place in this particular town, and from several different parts of the town. I used to call them districts. There was a housing district, a business district, the outskirts, the megaway (think a gigantic freeway, I mean absolutely massive, like 20 lanes on each side and it had a weird U-turn section where the U part went up into the air almost like a roller-coaster and the cars just kind of....drove up it and around, no problem), the back roads.... All of it connected, but all of them were separate dreams. I need to find that dream journal, I don't know if I still have it or not...
That sounds uncannily like how my dreams have been for a long time now, they all seem to take place in this town, and I'm usually trying to find a way to get to my accommodation because I don't drive but I have to travel down that mega freeway to get there.
Dreaming is an important part of my life. Often I dream inside a dream, lucid dream, have false awakening (annoying as hell if it happens during weekday), and the craziest one is, starting to dream before I even fall asleep - like the dream has begun but I'm still kind of conscious
It has happened with me too.... Like when I go to sleep I start dreaming while being conscious at the same time....I mean I was just lying on my bed dreaming something but at the same time I could also listen to what my family members were saying in the room ..... But it usually happens at the very early stages of sleep....
I took German for three years in high school, fifty years ago. Sometimes I dream where I and others are fluent in German. Like a business trip I took to Dublin when we met a German in a restaurant and that was the language for the night.
I happen to actually enjoy nightmares but I think its because of my positive attitude towards dreams or the fact I play videogames so when something scary happens like I run into a monster or demon I'm more likely to fight than run away
I'm currently an 8th grader in elementary school, and by my dreaming experiences personally agree with the theory about social practice, prepare-for-danger theory and problem solving one. When I have a math problem, I usually dream about solving the problem, and get it solved in the morning. Also, whilst I started thinking about my future (wanted) career in neuroscience, and started to realize that I would need every grade to be perfect and to be successful in competitions, I've started dreaming about getting a difficult task, or many of them, and needing to work in high stress environment with many task to complete. After that, when I wake up, my worries and stress get alleviated instantly.
@@absolutefoot4594 I'm now in high school, but it's not about the school itself always. Sure, I chose one of the most demanding schools in my country (Croatia), and more tasking assignments put stress on my classmates and me, together with all present pressure when grades are involved. But the true challenge arises from my aspiration to compete in chemistry and biology, respectively - which requires a lot of time and effort, which I sometimes don't have or am too tired to have. Despite my worry, I got an extraordinary result in the biology competition last year, and I hope I can follow up this year with chemistry and biology. In retrospect, I do not know why I am "confessing" my life's problems in a TH-cam comment, but I guess there is no considerable harm in it, so I am keeping it.
@@darkprelate I was initially referring to the fact that you attended elementary school for eight years, which is just longer than I've ever heard of. I'm not familiar with any kind of science competitions either, but it's interesting to hear how others do things differently. Ok also your focus in biology and chemistry is incredible; I wish you success!
The only thing I don't like about this video is it feels like he's saying that the psychological approaches are now outdated relics. Those theories still have influence and relevance today not only in a practical sense (Jungian psychotherapy, which can include aspects of dream interpretation, is still considered the most effective type of psychotherapy today), but also for a lot of modern literature and philosophy. I know this is a science channel, and I love science which is why I'm here, but science without humanity is cold and lifeless, a powerful machine. I know that's not the point of this channel, but I do think it's a perspective we should keep in mind, in general.
I think it's problem solving. I was in a violent relationship and I replayed the relationship for 5 years in my dream, it really sucked. It always ended where I was helpless and trapped. Then I went to therapy and my dream one day changed, I said NO to my abuser I regained my power. This gave me much more respect for my dreams. It was an amazing experience especially after years of being haunted.
8:20 I've had this idea for a while that dreams are how we perceive the brain sorting our memories, linking associations and such before putting them more securely into long term. It would explain why dreams generally mix what happened during the day with memories we were reminded of. (For example, if seeing a movie reminded you of a friend, perhaps the dream would incorporate the friend into the events of the film.) One thing I've noticed in my own dreams is what I call "dream geography". Where the setting of the dream will be based on places we've been to, but will especially draw on how originally remember them. There's a grocery store that had a huge remodeling done that changed placements of the entrance, the cash registers, all of it really, many years ago. When I'm awake I think of the store as it is now. But in my dreams, the grocery store takes its set up from how it used to be when I was a child. (Obviously the aisles get ever changing angles, and other strange changes that don't remain consistent for long, but the bare bones of it is based on the original set up. To the point that it's through the dreams that I've been able to piece together my memories of what it used to be like. Mostly. Still not sure if I remember correctly where the dairy aisle used to be.)
this holds true to my theory that we have two separate memory's one for dreams and one for real world memory's. When you were a child you must of dreamt of that supermarket and then when you are dreaming later in life you are drawing from your dream memory's
How would you explain dreams that are completely unrelated to movies or memories? I've experienced both places and events in my dreams more than once that I've never experienced in any form during a waking state
@@vickielove9066 You might have your conscious brain is just not aware of it, also possible that the brain can conjure images and locations from existing memories by mashing them together- Highly likely since the neurons sit that close to each other
Sometimes my dreams are episodic, if I wake I return back to the dream, and the best ones for some reason are apocalyptic, like nuclear war, devastating weather events, and aliens and or zombie wars!
Trust me Joe, for a person with PTSD and warshock like me, dream is NOT a good thing. I can get hurt because of my dreams, and wake up in pain and shivering fear because of dream (and even if I don't dream).
I feel for you I have PTSD and post concussion (not from war). My dreams are hard to experience and often feel like they are weeks or months in duration. Often I'm confused and in pain, can't figure out what is going on. Frequently I know that if I don't figure it out I'm going to die. And I can't figure it out. So in the end I just give up. Then when I wake up I'm in pain and have major brain fog for a couple of days, even though my injuries healed years ago. It sucks.
@@rubixloverful You'll laugh until you have it. You'll wonder why you can't control your own thoughts which makes it vomit, spasms and whatsnot. Sorry for the political terminology but enough with the right-wing mindset. Don't laugh at what soldiers experience after a war, you insecure pri**
Hobbyist author here. Some of my best stories are based on my dreams- one story so much so that I actually just wrote the dream down and tried to reverse engineer a story out of it instead of drawing inspiration. I think dreaming is definitely some sort of method of brainstorming- all the dreams i have about stories end up feeling more satisfying and natural than ones i think of while awake.
I've always seen dreams as the subconscious' way of keeping us entertained while we sleep, since we'd have dreams that could be sad, scary, funny, etc. It's like watching a movie without being awake, and you being the main character
There was a time during my teenage years but I was at my healthiest happiest Era and every night during my vacation I used to be like, “Hmm… So which genre would we like to watch tonight?” before placing my head on the pillow
So in my senior year of high school when the uvalde shooting happened I had a nightmare about being in a shooting and everyone trying to leave at once and it happened during passing period. Our school was one of the largest in the district and we had little to no precaution besides a few security guards. That day I begged not to go to school due to an overwhelming feeling of dread/impending doom. That day it was swatted due to a school shooting hoax. People genuinely thought they heard gunshots in the school and people were so scared.i was at home scared for everuone
I've never died in a dream. Which makes me feel like if I do die in my dream it's probably for real. I've come close but woke up before I died. I also can't physically hurt anyone either. I've tried fighting for my life and there is literally no power in my punches.
I don't remember ever dying in a dream and waking up, but once, in the middle of a dream about being in a war that was happening in my village for some reason, I was hit by a tank shell, and I believed I was 'dead', but I was just paralysed, still conscious in the dream, just aware of the fact I was dead. Don't remember how that felt
@@adamcummings20 lol it sorta sounds like your brain knew how you had to play your part to make it make sense, like an actor laying still after being "shot", but obviously couldnt understand it so it was just sitting there watching the clock
Don’t forget the indigestion factor. Aka, the siren going by your window, or low flying jet plane overhead. External interruptions often trigger dreams to which our minds assign a sometimes elaborate meaning.
9:50 Joe -"Dreams let us practice dangerous events and situations " Meanwhile in my dreams- "Ahhhhh the half unicorn half demon math teacher is trying to become a fairy and needs to make me do a 1000 sums to become a fairy!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!"
I can't wait to see my passed away twin sisters, both died but about a decade apart. Love to see my lost loved ones, i wake up feeling like i got to visit them, even if in a dream. Feels so real.
If dreams might help keep the visual cortex functional, what does this mean for persons who are blind? If a person has never been able to see, what are their dreams like?
I always considered dreaming to be the process where our brain has the time to analyze what is has experienced over the day and where to put it into perspective to other past memories as during the day when we are awake our brain has simply no time to do that as new experiences keep rushing in permanently and it must keep processing the new stuff as it has priority over any old one. During times where you experience a lot you seem to dream more often and more intense which would make sense as there is also more to process. It's a bit like seeing a movie twice, the first time just for the entertainment and the second time to analyze it in detail which you had no time to do the first time you watched it. And the second time you will also compare it to other movies, look for hidden references, compare actor performances to their past performances, and so on. The advantage is that after this reprocessing we will get a better understanding of what has happened, how to put it into perspective, and that will help us to make better decisions for the future and help us to react better in similar situations which is a huge evolutionary advantage.
Wait, dreams can be repressed memories? This explains a dream I had years ago! I was in a car accident when I was very very little, and a few years later, even though I didn’t remember the accident, I had a dream about it! I only remembered about 20 seconds of the dream, but it basically told the whole story of what happened that day. I am so glad I no longer need to be confused about that!
Have had accidental lucid dreams at a fair rarity without remembering using any prescribed methods. I’ll tell you from experience, I manifested a dragon out of view to land in front of me to have me ride it. And also had conversations with people who were distinctively not human. Just to show: maybe it is not limited to non-fiction-or-fantasy. Though even I still have a rather tricky time doing things like flying.
Whenever I lucid dream o accident, i alwaya have the urge to break the laws of physics: explode things and create stuff out of nothing. I can do those things, initially, but soon my brain starts negating me, because it does not understand how to create things out of nothing and end up waking up. I know there are tricks, like, looking away, then looking back and imagining a thing there, but when im asleep i cannot remember to put them in practice. Its still fun tho.
Lucid dreaming is underrated and sadly mist people dont even know it exists. You can have them more by keeping a dream journal and doung reality checks
The way I've always figured that dreams work, just from my own experience of them and the little that I know about how narrative memory works, is that as we sleep various things that have been on our minds recently flit through our brains, and as we think of each thing we imagine it for a moment as we tend to do when we think of things while awake, but because there's no other clear narrative events happening in reality as we sleep (unless something *is* noticeably happening around us, in which case that might get worked in alongside the thoughts in our own heads), the part of the brain responsible for writing narratives that connect our experiences together tries to write a story to make sense of how we had a flash of one thing and then had a flash of another, possibly very different thing -- and the narrative that it constructs can include however much time in between them it needs to, without actually taking that much time, but the narrative is what we remember experiencing, which is why time in dreams doesn't track with reality. So dreams are not random, they are topical to things we've been thinking about (and things that those things may make us think of too), and things that happen while we sleep, but they're strange because the narrative-forming part of our brain is reaching to come up with one consistent story for why we (apparently) experienced all of those different things together like that.
That's a very interesting and insightful perspective of it and I appreciate how you've described it. Logically, to me, this seems like a very possible explanation
9:34 i have had numerous dreams about being on some space ship ans there being the alien from the game alien isolation, i have never once considered them a nightmare, yet they are definitely scary in the moment when i dream.
When I dream I usually see the equations I've studied that day, but if I try to solve them I end up doing nonsensical calculations, and only when I get up I realize I didn't solve anything at all. Then I think the dream is just trying to save the equations as a long term memory, or maybe keeping my mind active to continue the calculations next day, who knows.
What concerns me the most in my dreams is when I see and talk to my deceased loved ones and when I have a nightmare that ends waking up screaming or feeling panic. I wonder what science has to say about those ones?
Ever since the start of the pandemic, my experience with sleep paralysis literally skyrocketed. At first it was about a harmless black blob watching me inside my room. After I moved back to my dormitory because of my classes, though, each experience was accompanied by a nightmare, or an uncomfortable dream would end as a nightmare. It is always about someone or something trying to get inside my room and hurting me in some ways and it's still going on. It is painfully obvious that I am scared of getting infected because I never saw these kind of dreams prior to the pandemic. I literally started to wake up screaming.
"harmless black blob" if you can acknowledging at this point can give you an opportunity to lucid dreams. Another option is when you see a repeating occurrence before the really scarry part, wake up. If you feel paralyzed, concentrate moving a muscle group. I use my vocal cords. It takes about as much practice as waking up before you uranate.
I am grateful that here, there are so many people who have dream experiences like me. I am sometimes very confused by the dreams I have, sometimes my dreams are a sign, do I have to do something according to the dream I had last night? Or is there something that is actually a code for me? Like a mystery, and it's unfortunate that every beautiful dream I have must be the memory always fades when I wake up, maybe it's rare but I've experienced lucid dreaming too, like I'm dreaming and when I open my eyes a little, I'm awake but like when I close my eyes, I can magically continue the dream according to what I want like I arranged it with a conscious brain, woahh that's wonderful
This is strange.... last night I saw my late father in a dream and in the morning I was trying to use usual arguments in neuroscience society about why do we dream... and now I see this! :)))) Keep up the good job bro.
I once had a dream where I died. Idk how it happened it was blurry what happened before but all I know is I was in a house with a friend and ppl were after us we got caught and brought to the woods behind the house. I tried making a run for it and all I heard was my friend scream,me turning around only to see the end of a barrel staring right at me. I hears the shot and somehow felt the impact on the side of my head. Usually you'd wake up after dying in a dream but this time I didn't. It all went dark and I could still feel the grass poking my skin and some of my blood flowing on one of my fingers I could hear muffled running screaming and shooting but the running continued and all I could think was:"I hope my friend made it." And at that time realised I was sleeping but wouldn't wake up. I couldn't pinch myself or anything. I just felt a point of pressure where I'd been shot the grass poking my skin and the blood sliding across my finger. Dying in a dream was weird cus I felt the void I always thought of after death. It was empty and quite but blurry and painful. I stayed in that state for about what felt like an hour maybe and then woke up much earlier than I'd usually wake up even though I swear I'd overslept
I 've been thinking about this bizzar issue for 20years, I found I am in a totally paralleled world in my dreams with expilicit and chronological plots , authentic sensings,and even philosophical and critical thinking...
Maybe dreams are also partially an incentive to keep us asleep, since it's so important to our health. I also could very easily be wrong, since feeling tired is already a reason for us to go to sleep. Dreams are so weird, it's difficult to list all the purposes they might have!
I think dreams are ways our brains try to solve things that are important to us. When I had to compose for an upcoming deadline to apply for a undergrad music composition course but was out of ideas, I dreamt that I was listening to a Mahler Lied which stuck with me so much so that I actually composed a lied almost similar to the one I heard in my dream. I have had three other pieces that spawned from my dreamworld since then and I've only just began my journey as composer. It's like my mind tries to communicate with me to guide myself in the right direction.
I can’t vouch for that but I have always noticed that ever since my sleep schedule has been fucd and I sleep 6-3pm, That I have more dreams, more lucid dreams and more normal dreams that I can remember, and also remember it more clearly than night dreams. Also something to do with visual cortex in brain because I had more vivid/scary dreams when I sleep facing up on my back.. blood must be accumulating a little bit more in that location (back of my head)
@@couch1596 I have a feeling taller people have a higher chance of being a heavy sleeper than short people because of the greater amount of growth hormone.
The oddest dream related experience I had was when I had covid earlier this year. I had 5 of the most vivid dreams ever. Everything felt real and there weren't any of those odd telltale signs of a dream (like going from one place to another with no memory of doing so). Of those 5 dreams, 3 came true within a month of going back to work. First was not a stretch. The second was a little bit of a stretch but I explained it away as I subconsciously picked up on something. The third was WTF moment as it was about being given an assignment for a client I hadn't worked with in years for an application I had never worked with. I would love for the other two to come true but I'll leave it at that for now. I still, 10 months later, have vivid memories of those dreams as if a normal memory.
One of the things I've noticed about dreaming, when you're in a dream, no matter how bizarre it is, it seems perfectly rational, but if you wake up and remember that dream, you're more likely to go WTF?.
When you practice using reality checks you can use these moments to have a lucid dream
@@shadw4701 I'm gonna try that
@@shadw4701 nah, going "lmfao this is normal" over a martian riding a dinosaur while driving a motorbike in brazil just adds so much more
@@shadw4701 I lucid dream sometimes but it's rare I mostly have normal dreams but it's still cool that I can lucid dream and I kinda wanna do it at will
@@shadw4701 it's said that before lucid dreaming tell yourself you're going to lucid dream. And when I kept doing it while sleeping I was in blank space where I didn't know if I was asleep or I was awake but i couldn't control it what does it mean 🤔
My brain after good dream:forgets
My brain after bad dream: a core memory
That's so true
I still remember getting murdered in my dream ;-;
yes so true
@@ant9347 what happened after
@@Htiy they died irl
@@Htiy I saw my guts spilling out and woke up all sweaty
It was 4 at night from what I remembered and my heart was beating so fast I couldn't fall asleep again
My friend said that it might have been a night terror (like sleep paralysis)
It made me paranoid for a week because the dream happened in front of my house
That's all I remember, as for the attacker I can't remember him/her
As someone who’s very in touch with their dreams, lucid dreaming, remembering them etc, I think at least for myself that dreams allow your brain to practice learned things (foreign languages, driving, a task at work for example) and also sometimes it can have an inherit meaning that only you can understand, maybe it resurfaces feelings you’ve pushed down, and I think it’s a healthy and important practice, a window to your mind and soul.
Absolutely! It's like playing 'dream legos' with our daily thoughts and experiences, mixed in the same tub with long-term-memory blocks, but instead of building houses, we're trying permutations of problems and solutions.
When I took Mandarin in college, i already had small kids and very little (no) time to study at home, but i found that writing the characters on index cards and reviewing them 5 mins before bedtime, they would settle in my head and then i would automatically end up 'practice' writing them in my sleep, over and over (i remember watching my outstretched hand in my dream, drawing them). If I picked up those cards and spent 2 mins reviewing them while i peed/woke up, i knew them for the test every single time. And if i did that every night for a week or so, they stayed permanently.
@@bmnthat why do you think so? I’m curious.
I also experienced getting stuck in my dreams, and I often feel like I just lived a whole different life and I wake up exhausted… so I get what you mean, but any basis? Religious/spiritual?
@@bmnthat I've been actively lucid dreaming for 35 years. Your own personal experience says that it's bad for everyone. My own personal experience says it's 100% completely fine.
It takes time to get to that stage though, I do see where you're coming from though, I just think it'd be better to learn the skill IRL, yk?
@@Makememesandmore lol definitely better, but that little extra practice your brain does on its own doesn’t hurt!
Much respect to the cameraman for entering your dream to record this video, truly a dedicated member of the team.
LMAO
The inception equipment was probably also pretty expensive!
The camera man's name is Chad Kruger. Fredrick's lesser known younger brother.
Plot twist: It is actually Joe behind the banana head mask.
Why am I dreaming Joe now 😒
When I was in high school there was this geometry problem that I couldn't solve. I dreamed about the solution and answer and after waking up, I did it exactly as I saw it and got it correct!
Ha. I read that as "When I was high in school..."
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Your subconscious brain figured it out, but couldn’t tell the conscious brain so gave it to you as a dream instead. It had your back all along 😆
Exactly! Same thing happened to me in high school with a geometry problem.
Same thing happened trying to solve a puzzle..
Nice. I just have math nightmares only it's not actually math. It's gibberish that I think is math :)
In lucid dreams you become aware of time. In normal dreams, you have no awareness of time. Whenever I experience a lucid dream, I become aware that I’m about to wake up and have a limited amount of time left in the dream state.
Often though it seems that the more aware I am of the limited time I have the more likely I am to wake up, If that makes sense
There are times when I wake from a dream to use the restroom and consciously tell myself to pick up the dream where I left off.
@@blackpowder99 Well that's True experienced same, and sometimes we can just add subtract in it also, couldn't we?
.....im asking for a friend will you hear people who are actually talking to you like i mean physically there talking to you while your sleeping can you hear them in your dreams
@@alexandriarennie5992 absolutely yes, I almost always fall asleep wearing headphones listening to TH-cam and very often I realize that people in a dream discuss the same topic I hear in the video while sleeping
I once dreamt I had a group of friends that I hung out with over several nights. Once I stopped the dreams, I missed them like crazy for a few weeks and still do a little bit 20 years later. Crazy.
Same herrrreee. I miss my school times with friends.
Same, sometimes i dream about person which I'm sure i know, and when i wake up I'm starting to question myself did i knew that person at some point of time or if it was just a dream person. Really confusing. :)
@@milosstojanovic4623 I know of what you speak my friend. To awake from a dream, trying to hold onto the fleeting memories of a life, and a wife, different from this world to varying degrees. Then, as this reality asserts itself onto your consciousness, you could almost weep from the grief of the loss... Someday, we will wake to find that this life will have been that fading dream.
Me too, i used to have a dream about a group of people that i really liked to be with them
Some years later i dreamed that they went on cuz i never returned, when i woke up i felt so sad and melancholy
@@crazybunny1134 That's a familiar feeling, that leaves you hollow... as a room, in a house, in a dream I once had.
When I was taking antidepressants, I would have really interesting dreams. Every night after falling asleep, it was like entering a parallel life, a life that was as chronological and continuous as my real life, only it happened in my dreams. I was a student, I had family, I knew where my dorm room was and the way to the shopping centre, I knew which place had the best pizza and when to catch public transport. But none of it was real. It was all just a massive, immersive, continuous dream, and I lost that world - and that life - once I came off the antidepressants.
You know, through the power of lucid dreaming, you can get that world back.
If you don't know, lucid dreaming is when you're aware that you're in a dream. And once you become aware, you can potentially control that dream, you can do whatever you want. The only limit is your own imagination.
So then, you can go back to that "parallel life" you had way back when, if you dedicate yourself to lucid dreaming that is.
@@childofgod5153 i had a lucid dream but i could only consciously control myself and i had a sense of logic and reality unlike most of my dreams but i couldnt control what happened in that dream only my own actions
@@childofgod5153 i had a nightmare once, that out street got attacked by armed men, forcefully went inside our houses and started randomly shooting people. It felt so real. But when I realized I was dreaming, as I was about to get shot in the dream, I sorta "controlled" the dream and I froze time in the dream. Everyone and everything was still until I conjured up a vehicle in my dream (which is also self driving because I can't drive well) and I got out of our street, and that's when I woke up.
@Mia I have the same thing except it isn't due to antidepressants. It's just my brain I guess & mine isn't a nice place it sucks and it's been going on for years now. The good thing is I've been going there so long that I know routes and shortcuts to take when danger is imminent. The thing is I've grown to kind of love it too. Not the bad parts obviously but more the familiarity. I know sh*t's gonna go down. I know the likely scenarios that could play out and as I say there is an element of safety in knowing that you know the playing field. It's good to see somebody else who also has experienced these long-term dreams. It really is a parallel life 🤷♀️😊
our souul travel during dreams - so u might actually been there or will be - the antidepressant cause the body to relax even more - so the soul don't need to worry to "operate"it
I have insomnia and have always had problems with sleeping, and as a result I can remember about 2-3 dreams every single night very vividly. It’s gotten to a point where I am constantly confusing dreams with real life and spend more of my life asleep then awake. It’s so strange because the emotions, feelings and situations just feel so real.
Start praying and seeking Gods face. God is calling you to the prophetic ministry and has given you special abilities that He wishes to share with you. I say this because the same thing had happened to me and when I had started praying and asking God for answers, it seemed to be answered in other dreams.
And I shall pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Your old men shall dream dreams and young men have visions. Thats Gods promise to you. The old men part is only because its related to interpretation coz the dream is symbolic. Older people are better at interpreting since wisdom comes with age.
I’m trying to get back into lucid dreaming. Kinda had success last night, but mostly just improving my dream recall and consistently doing a reality check throughout the day. Last night I looked down at my hands in my dream and actually got kinda terrified because they didn’t look right. Woke up for a moment, but went right back to sleep into the same dream. I was in like a quiet dark campground that was quite beautiful actually with like wild rabbits for example, but then I felt like I was being chased by some demon. Was probably a low level of lucidity hence why I was scared of something that didn’t exist. The monster caught me though, stabbed it’s like needle hand through my back and picked me up. I was so terrified and just accepted my death and wished for it to be quicker. Then I woke up in a hot sweat on the floor because I’m camping and I somehow had the blanket like bundled up under my back screwing up my posture. Funny how dreams always imitate real life like with the settings and all. I’ve been seeing these wild rabbits a lot at home too. Anyways, here to my next dream not being a terrifying nightmare.
Yeah man. Normal sleeper but always have vivid dreams. I get confused sometimes because dreams give me fake memories.
I also love the dream world. Feels like a different realm and a different way of viewing the world
find your circadian rhythm and follow that, meaning your chronotype
Among other things, I'm amazed at how complex dreams can be. Sometimes the storytelling in my dreams are especially convincing, lifelike and coherent, when I can't even write a simple story sober.
It's because nothing is 'real', dreaming or not dreaming. 'Dreams' are just our brains continuing its normal operation. Our brains do not feel conscious, we do. Hence dreams are not different from reality. The difference is that our sense organs are less sensitive when we sleep. Why do we sleep? To maintain our cells. Why do we need our cells maintained? To stay alive. Why do we need to stay alive? It has never been and will never be our decision. Its all about our genetic encoding. What are we then?
POV: If we were created, it might be possible that our creators do not know that we feel conscious.
that is, i think, because there are supercomputers rendering a lot of these more complicated dream movies and sending them using rnraw remote neuron writing- seems crazy but anytime your finger m,uscle for exmaple moves you get a sense of how widespread although secretly this nano remote neuron reading and writing tech must be - gday Blitzy
did you write twilight?
@@kosiilondu That is some weird and very wrong simplification... "Why do we sleep? to maintain our cells.." yeah sure... All of that is your idea, or something from one book, or maybe a few books? No one really knows what consciousness is, and no one really knows the true relation between consciousness and the brain, but almost all agree that there is a strong connection, almost all agree that if we can say for some part of the body that represents us, that is the brain... You can change a hip, a leg, an arm, you can change almost everything on your body, but you will still be you because you are your brain. And, according to your logic dreams are different than what we experience while awake just because sensory data is out, so you are saying that dreams are hallucinations? Because that is the definition of hallucination, perception without sensory data present... No, things are way more complicated...
@jean8226 That is total nonsense. Try learning biology, neurology, and psychology and maybe you will not be so confused. We have a psyche, that is a product of our brain, there is no soul, souls do not exist.
I had a really similar experience to the tetris experiment. I played some games of tetris with my friends and when I was a sleep I was constantly picturing playing a game of tetris, I swear I could even picture the exact pieces fitting together and the lines clearing.
There was a time when I would sit on the bus and start playing Tetris with the shapes that people made in front of me.
I used to have that a lot when I used to play chess.
Trough lockdown I sometimes dreamt I was an actual soldier in Warzone but it’d feel so realistic as well
Mate I was so into Skyrim and obvilion that I would be playing in my dreams and it was so so real.thing is I don't dream normally but my wife said I would be moving like I'm trying to use a bow and arrows.like trying to hide behind trees.i had the same with gta 5.i still don't really dream but if I do it's real as real can be.
Wow, I thought the weirdest thing that happens to people (at least everyone I ever knew and talked about it) is that we don't dream about technology. No TV's, no phones, computers etc. My whole life, my passion is built on technology. I'm a digital artist, I'm a gamer but I never dreamt about it, there was never any kind of electronic device present in my dreams.
i've lost my close friend in an earthquake and had several dreams throughout this past two years. And everytime she appeared looking at me with a smile and hugged me , felt so real and magical that made my heart happy .i think dreams really help you keep going in life ,accept and survive.
When I was taking my final exam of my degree course, I'd done a huge amount of revision. However, during the night before, I had a dream about the paper, and I saw the topic of the first question, one I'd not revised. On the hour bus ride to the exam I read everything that I had on the topic. I opened the paper...yes, you've guessed, the topic was...the first question! Had it not been for the dream, I'd not have covered the topic, rather an obscure one. In fact, I was the only one who had studied it, and I got my best marks on that question. Why did I dream that I wonder? Glad I did though.
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That has happened to me,
I once saw a dream of randomly opening a page of my physics book and hadn't read that line. The next day, a question came from that exact line😂 and i was really happy.
I had a similar experience with my stats course.
Joseph Murphy's book - The power of your subconscious mind deals with this in detail.
Once, our VCR was having tracking issues, but it had no manual controls listed on the device or remote. That night i dreamt of fixing it using the channel up and down buttons, and sure enough, when I woke up and tried them they worked. While playing a tape the channel buttons doubled as tracking control.
Not solving a world mystery, but still gave me some interesting insight into how my brain works.
What is a VCR?
@@maillardsbearcat A video cassette player, it was like a DVD player in the 80s and 90s.
@@norma8686 Lol I'm just trolling, I was born in 89.
@@maillardsbearcat I like you 😂
@@maillardsbearcat I was born in 85
Ok i gotta admit this................this person.........is the best for learning something without getting bored and all
The environments in my dreams are often incredible. Both architecture and nature are really detailed and the lighting and atmosphere are breathtaking. It's really interesting and kind of frustrating because I am an artist and when I'm awake, I really struggle with painting good environments. I'm much better at drawing people than places, but in my dreams it's the other way around.
That is one beautiful mind you got there!
My dreams are just strange and chaotic, sometimes fun, othertimes horrorfying
dem ikr most of my painting ideas have been derived by the things i see in dreams i mean they are so pretty
Same here. Ever since I've watched the building twisting and folding effects in doctor strange, inception etc and time travel in movies, my dreams are often non linear stories where reality is warping in ways prohibited by physical laws. Also, having read some of Jung's work, i love to identify the patterns in my dreams and am always amazed by how on point most of the stuff is
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same but instead of happy most of mine are just torture because i for some reason can feel pain in dreams
what
When my great grandmother passed, I had a dream about her and I literally woke up with tears in my eyes. That kind of freaked me out but it felt so real and just hearing her voice felt so real. I’ve never experienced something like that before. I’ve had plenty of dreams but nothing like that. Great video btw
EDIT: Thank for all the comments. I really wasn't expecting much attention from it, but it feels really reassuring knowing I'm not alone in this experience. Also, to anyone who has lost someone or even a pet, I sincerely hope you are feeling better.
After my dog passed I had a dream cuddling with him and feeling him against me felt so real. It’s magical
@@hmmm8648 exactly same, happened two three times after every 4-5 years of my dog's death
My Condolences 🙏
I got the numbers messed up. I was 21-22***** when she passed
What a wonderful experience! I hope you never forget that. I remember once after struggling with depression and injuries related to being hit by a drunk driver that I woke up laughing. That’s never happened before or since, but I learned then that dreams are powerful!
I never realized that so many people experience sleep paralysis - it's crazy how vivid and frightening those experiences can be. It's comforting to know I'm not alone, though, and this video gave me some helpful tips for dealing with it
Have you ever gotten involved with the occult in any way, even minor?
@simulacrum2731, can you please give some ideas on how to avoid sleep paralysis? Thanks :)
Mind understanding is that sleep paralysis is there to help protect us from hurting ourselves in our sleep, but sometimes the amount of that is off so we can "stuck" like that after we awake
This makes no sense whatsoever. Why would you try to hurt yourself in the night, whilst you are asleep?@@MichellePoirier12
@@yashdahima1254 i experienced SP regulary UNTILL.....1 Night i went with it...i didnt fight or struggle as we do (in our mind), i relaxed and just went with the flow...
I felt pressure under my armpits then was flying around the room, trying to get to my sisters room to go "hey, look at me"....
It then ended and i awoke in this bizzarre position, as if id been dragged up by the underarms..
Never had it since......all true..
I once had a dream where I said to my dad "Time is 1 dimensional, you can control your future by being ready for tomorrow". It's a bit weird, but I can kinda see what that means.
You said such a basic truism to your said in a dream? And his answer was laughing and sarcastically answering something like, "bravo, you discovered a hot water..."?
ngl this was so big brain !
dreams are so mysterious
Nice advice ur brain made bro
isn’t time the fourth dimension
I've been recording my dreams since I was a child, about 20 years. I used to have nightmares and extreme anxiety dreams every night. For years I was plagued by these, until I finally figured out how to control them. Before I even knew what lucid dreaming was, I was able to nearly master it. A decade passed before I learned what I had taught myself to do was such a complex ability. I haven't had a nightmare in 15 years. A few anxiety dreams here and there, but nothing I wake up terrified over. And a lot of my dreams have felt prophetic, but I'm fairly certain that's just due to my incredible sense of intuition.
✨Lucid dreaming ✨
Ah yes, your inflated sense of intuition
Ya, I have what I think are prophetic dreams sometimes, but I used to lucid dream on accedent and it was not good. Like, I had lucid nightmares or just ones i wish i didnt have. And that was before i knew what lucid dreaming was, and I hated them. They made me scared to go to sleep. I had control over them, but at the same time they seem to have had a mind of there own.
Yeahh, I'm pretty sure most "prophetic dreams" are just your brain taking your recent experiences and gained information, and extrapolating future events based on that information and experience. But I'm just a dude, not a scientist.
@@starlegends3092 Have you tried any sleep music specifically for lucid dreaming?
My dreams are always the same. Very vivid, full of people I don’t know and I’m always trying to find something in a place I don’t know. I’ve given up trying to rationalize them out when I wake up. They don’t help me with anything. They just are.
Never had nightmares until I hit my 20s. Sometimes I’d wake up, not remembering what it was but close to tears (once, I did cry) and extreme levels of discomfort, like I wasn’t safe. It would sometimes drive me crazy not being able to remember because I’m curious as to what could’ve been so terrifying that I’m crying. I’d have an inkling of what happened as I awaken but it slips out of my grasp the more aware I get.
Interesting. Nightmares and I are old friends, since I had night terrors as a kid; I would literally get out of bed and start acting out the dream, like running away from something. We had to have a baby gate at the top of the stairs for a long time as a result. I don't remember those early nightmares, but I do remember a few of my most common scary/unnerving dreams I've had since I was a teen; losing control of a car and crashing is a common one when my life feels out of my control in general
@@moongirl786 in sha Allah you’ll be ok
Ey, at least you dont have to develup phobias over what was in them like me.
@@starlegends3092 ever developed a phobia of sticker books, motion picture cameras and yo-yos?
I even started to hate math after a nightmare
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I have a phobia of being possesed because of my past dreams.
I think one reasin its such a big phobia is because i turned against them when i started middle school, and I had bad angziety about a bunch stuff then. Most of my phobias ive gotten over, but it will be a miricle when I get over that one.
Now I have nightmares about it so it started all over again.
I also was scared for a weak after seeing a micky mouse charictors scull fly out of there head in a dream. I was so grossed out. My brain was trying to make a gross dream that night lol. He turned into a ghost and suddenly decited he wanted to kill his wife that he just saved from a crushing thingy.
I once told my friend group that my dreams during test weeks were usually me literally repeating what I have been studying (with all my review materials). After explaining to them, some thought I was a weirdo, others thought I had an eidetic memory, and I thought I found the best way to study. I always did well on my exams.
I memorized recited verses from my newly written songs - and would only remember them when I heard the beat, but my head had to be rocking.
My older sister always did her math homework in the morning, much to my mom's ire. "Why didn't you finish your homework last night!")
She said she processed it in her dreams, and she could finish the assignment when she woke up.
I did my best on my exams when I got tipsy the night before. Partied at Shakey’s Pizza the night before a physical geography test and aced it next morning. The highest other grade was 70.
I too have an eidetic memory but for a brief period of tume
My daughter has a nightmare at least four days a week, and she remembers so many of all of her dreams with such great detail. I can rarely remember, and most of mine just involve me interacting with people who have passed away.
I often dream of people that I don't recognise, and wonder if my brain is really good at creating very realistic people or if they are someone I saw somewhere but didn't consciously register. I also dream of amazing architecture that also doesn't exist anywhere, these dreams leave me wishing that I was able to capture a detailed "screen shot" as after I wake up the details slowly fade and I can't draw well enough to do them justice.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
i think it’s a combination of the faces you’ve come across?
Dudeeee that's a really good motivation to learn how to draw!
I *always* ♾ find dreams have *inferable, hidden information* 🕵🕵🕵 that is *not directly perceived* 🤐🤐🤐 about *the dream world* 🌍🌍🌍. E.g. Character 👤🪞 motivations ❓, modus/modi operandi 🛣🛣🛣, the validity ✅❌ of a statement 📑 within the dream, etc.
Dreams 💤 are primarily logic 🤔 puzzles 🧩🧩🧩.
By nature of a dream being a logic 🤔 puzzle 🧩, the characters are *always* very realistic, especially in terms of behaviour and motivations, as you need to be able to infer the hidden information from what you know.
Nonsense characters would prevent that from being true.
I occasionally see random people from public transport in my dreams. They most likely were somebody you saw briefly in the day before you fell asleep.
There was a stage where I dreamt about flying a lot. I could lift myself from earth and fly high above my house and trees. It was the most wonderful feeling everytime. Haven't had that dream recently. I can also control my dreams and if it is a nasty dream I can tell myself it is only a dream and wake myself..
I can also wake myself up on command and even slightly open my eyes for a moment but I can’t see anything but light, I also had a flying dream, it started in a spaceship with alien animals (I was a dragon like one) and then I left the ship to fly in these cloud,y bright hills and through ruins, the weirdest part is that I had to actually flap my arms and it was kind of hard work but I never got tired
I've tried to wake myself and yelling comes out as mumbling. That's usually when the girlfriend wakes me up. One that I remember is a demon came in my room and charged me and hit me and I flew out my window backwards in slow motion over my back yard. The weird thing was I saw a chicken in my backyard. The next day there was a chicken in my backyard. I don't live in a rural area and I don't know where it came from. I left it and the next day it was gone.
That's called lucid dreaming. I totally get it. One way to know you are dreaming is that a dream has no beginning, you just find yourself there.
I had tons of dreams in which i flied and many of them were lucid ones. Especially during quarantine so i guess it had to do smth with the quarantine. Anyways i still have a strange habit, where i "start to fly" but then remember im not dreaming and can't just magically float. Most of my flying dreams were set in my school as well so that doesn't help lmao
I have had many lucid dreams over the years, more when I was younger.
Something that Nancy Wilson of Heart said in "These Dreams" has haunted me a bit.
"Funny how your feet in dreams never touch the earth"
I don't know if I walk or float, though I think I float. Any dream walkers out there?
I can always tell when I am dreaming… I can even stop bad things from continuing to happen once I realize it’s all in my mind… I can even recognize I am in a dream and then make things I want happen. It’s amazing tbh
Hell yeah 👍🏻 it's the best. Like our own realistic VR
My cat has to be dreaming. She meows in her sleep sometimes. Her paws flicker like she is running. Sometimes the whole leg will move slightly and she does that chirping thing. I'm certain she is dreaming about chasing and catching some prey 😁
Pretty sure it's birds she's chasing in her dreams.
Aw thats adorable ❤️
Are you sure you haven't accidentally plugged her tail into your charger?
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@@VeganSemihCyprus33 or maybe just watch the educational videos posted on this channel which have no bias because they're simply statements from someone interested in the topics and willing to share that knowledge.
As a gamer, I have had lots of gaming-related dreams. It’s interesting that the brain uses existing memories when conjuring up these scenarios, so I always assumed that it was an accidental bi-product of the increased electrical surges of REM sleep. Electricity restoring the brain, then accidentally activating neurones in the process, which our subconscious interprets as dreams. The subconscious being almost like an autopilot setting.
Pretty cool thought. As a kid obsessed with video games, I can totally relate to this! Bowser used to chase me a lot in my dreams!
Omgosh...whoa, not the only one...only thing is there is no B64 in bingo. All the #'s don't match letters...🙄 plays lots of different bingo games...
If I dream about games, I will dream about Minecraft or Free Fire
My favorite dream is flying, many times I flied, felt so good.
Mine isn't flying so much as just being able to levitate to great heights. I always love those dreams.
Yeah,you are right,I also feel like I m flying but when at some situation when I have to run in my dream,I become so hard and slow for me
The last couple of weeks I’ve started sleeping on my back because of shoulder issues, and I noticed I remember my dreams every night when I do so. I actually hate dreaming and sleeping because most of my dreams are nightmares and I get a lot of sleep paralysis.
Interesting. I usually sleep on my side as well, especially when my sinuses are acting up, but maybe I'll have to try that. Just to remember better that is, not to try and get sleep paralysis; that does not seem from fun from what I have heard/read.
For me it's totally opposite, I like sleeping and dreaming. And never had any nightmare ....... Bad dreams, yes ( like a horror movie or school) but not a nightmare like where I woke up
Thank you for remembering me to try to sleep on my back if I want to remember dreams. Now that you pointed out I notice weeks when I slept on my shoulder and had nothing, but the last time I slept on my back I had multiple dreams.
When I sleep on my back I always get sleep paralysis and night mares
Could be sleep apnea. When I sleep on my back, get dreams where I’m drowning or running really fast and unable to breathe etc.
One theory I've had about dreaming is that it's something like a diagnostic run through the brain's functions to gauge overall health, reinforce connectivity, and so on. It probably has a significant impact on our overall plasticity. I've always wondered what we'd find in experiments if we could disable REM and measure things like neural connectivity and activation, regeneration, and so on.
Our beloved Prophet Mohammed PBUH gave a completely different logic on Dreams
"If you sees a dream that he likes, then it is from Allah, and he should thank Allah for it and narrate it to others; but if he sees a dream that he dislikes, then it is from Satan, and he should seek refuge with Allah from its evil, and he should not mention it to anybody, for it will not harm him".
Sahih Al Bukhari Volume 9, Book 87, Number 114
An interesting dream of Prophet Mohammed PBUH, has been narated in Sahih Bukhari, volume 9, Book 87, Number 139
Narrated 'Aisha:
Allah's Apostle said (to me), "You were shown to me twice in (my) dream. Behold, a man was carrying you in a silken piece of cloth and said to me, "She is your wife, so uncover her,' and behold, it was you. I would then say (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.
And that's all anyone will come up with a theory. And we all have them. Until someone truly knows. We just keep dreaming
I frequently dream about sorting out work problems in methods that are mostly nonsensical on reflection, but one dream stands out regarding a wiring route in a complex hotel tower arrangement that I'd been trying to resolve in my head during the days working the site. I was at a complete loss until the dream explaining what to do came to me, and remembering it, I implemented the design, and it worked perfectly. This was in early 2003, and it hasn't happened since, and it counts as one of my life's most bizarre occurrences.
Dreaming is one of my favorite parts of life… Gets even more interesting when you keep a dream journal. Now you have your very own short stories. THEN, you can further those stories, interpret them, paint them, etc. The possibilities are endless…. Ahhh the smell of creativity is ripe!
Wow!
That sounds interesting but I would lack the motivation to do that.
I think when you sleep, you brain goes into repair and memory consolidation mode, and dreams are a glitch where you become slightly conscious enough to experience the neurons firing in that alternative state of mind. Same with hallucinogens, parts of your brain are communicating with each other that normally don't, and you're conscious enough to experience it. We just interpret the experience with our reasoning to get some sort of meaning or continuity, but there isn't.
In some of my dreams i did something that feels really ingenious but when i woke up that part of the dream is the part i never remember, i usually lie there conscious for a few minutes trying to make out what i did in that dream but often time i just forget the dream altogether and nothing makes sense anymore.
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Still is unknown how the brain can create virtual worlds so realistic
@Mom's Spaghetti i have thought about it this way and that is why i am here, from my point of view, sleep is needed to make you train your brain for tomorrow, just like AI needs training time and testing time(to train the neurons), so too the human brain, why waste a perfectly good 8 hrs of nighttime(in hibernation) when you could prepare for tomorrow's fight with a boar, with like a fake kung-fu training session(in a dream).
The social thing is the same thing, preparing you for the things you wanted to accomplish better tomorrow, than you did yesterday, you may not understand dream logic, but i have seen it, it was my choice to put some of my close friends (schoolmates) in my dream, as was the choice of putting them in my kindergarden, and also of jumping over short skyscrapers (i needed some fast travel, from one chat room to another), my choice(as in my subconscious choice)... Everything in the dream seems perfectly logical, because you blindside yourself by asking your subconscious what is logical in the dream world, none is, it was made so you could understand the logic you had lack of, that is why it also helps with studying.
The only thing this hypothesis lacks is explaining recurrent dreams(a 1 to 1 copy, otherwise it's just a continuation), or ones that are really upsurd( like just flying through the air or feeling like a tree, since that is only an experience, not really a thing you could learn better, but may help with spacial memory and mapping)
And why can't it be all of the above why only two or three, as i see it "training for tomorrow" includes all of the other. (My how silly, those scientists can be)
@@ГеоргиГеоргиев-с3г how far have you gone with your beautiful hypothesis
I've always figured that some dreams were my brain sifting through fragments of what I thought about, playing the important ones into 'memories.' Like if I watched a 5 second ad about books I might dream about a library on fire, or if I drove past a corner field I might dream about living on a farm. I doubt this is the case for all dreams though, I rarely remember them with the meds I'm on.
There is at least one common dream trope: you're back in school, sitting for a final exam, and realize you didn't study and, perhaps, never attended a class. For me it goes further- In my dream I have a critical exam and not only haven't studied or attended class, but don't even know the room where the class was given or the room where the exam is taking place- totally lost!
Hi five. But I somehow am able to wake myself up by telling myself, it's a dream!
😂
I have a similar one where i randomly think that I never finished High school and so i gotta go back and finish it and I’m super lost.
I get that one a lot too
I remember wondering if dreams like that or the no pants one were just made up by cartoons because I've never had anything like those
I took an entry level psych course in university, and the section on dreaming was so, so interesting.
Many (not all) of my dreams are about being ill-equipped or unprepared. They manifest in many different ways, but when I analyse them they nearly always come down to being ill prepared, not ready or organised ending in catastrophe. Very interesting.
Not mentioned is lucid dreams. I have had a few. The first time I was like, wow I am dreaming but I am totally in control. Not long after I had another, I decided I would try to fly. It was like the first time the great american hero tried to fly. After a few tries I got the hang of it. I was totally flying, incredible feeling.
I lucid dream most of the time because something about my dream clues me in to it being impossible. A fictional character being present, or the water on my local beach not being cold even though I live in maine. My brain is like "nope not possible, you are dreaming" I don't usually try to control it though... when the lucid dreams get scary I purposefully do not react... like as if my brain is refusing to give itself the satisfaction of reacting to the nightmare it created.
Does flying in your dream feel like grasping air and trying to balance
So? Is it normal to be able to lucid dream every night because I only recently found out some people aren't in control of their dreams whenever they want
I've been trying to lucid dream and I've been getting better at starting them, but as soon as I realize that I'm lucid dreaming, I get so excited I wake up :/
I am usually lucid dreaming and feel in control but whenever I am flying, I am 100% certain it is real. It never feels like a dream. It feelsl so natural. I am always annoyed when I wake up.
Sometime in my 20's I was able to recognize I was dreaming and not wake up. These "lucid" dreams continued well into my 50's. I turned most of them into flying dreams. If the dream became too intense it would wake me up.
I've also had two dreams of dying, one on an ancient battlefield where I was hacked into pieces and the other being shot. It was very confusing to me to wake up after having been killed in a dream. I didn't ask myself 'where am I?' or 'who am I?'. My first thought was 'what am I?', and once I figured out what I was, things got clearer! It was bizarre....
I've died many times in my dreams and the feeling after I wake up is always an intense relief.
I can die in my dreams too. Apparently most people don’t. The craziest one was when a pride of lions attacked and killed me.
Dude. My heart almost stopped when you said that. Bout not where or who or BUT WHAT AM I. I’ve said that Exact thing to my kids trying to explain what I felt once waking up. Like I had just came online. I dream every single time I sleep. But I’ve only ever felt that once. That’s very crazy that you said that. I even googled those exact words and only found one other person that said it. It had comments and many people said that that is true Ego Death. It’s a perspective. But I’ll NEVER forget that feeling. Just thought I’d share
I had to learn to do that from a very young age as I woke up terrified every night. Never saw bad things in real life, however saw them in dreams and half of the terror was not understanding what I was seeing so I literally had to take over my dreams and stay asleep to finish them. Soon after I could control them and even continue a dream the next night if it hadn't finished yet. As I got into my teenage years I had a lot of bedsheets to change 😂😂😂
@andredelacerdasantos4439 when you get killed, if you pretend it didn't kill you and play dead you can continue the dream and even make a comeback
I am a musician. I heard one night in a dream the most beautiful song I ever heard, but of course I couldn't remember it when I woke up. The feeling still haunts me though
I think it's important to remember that evolution just does its thing, it's just random things that develop, there doesn't need to be ONE use, if dreams help with all of this a bit it's useful enough to stay. It all seems a little different when you lucid dream because you basically hijack that machine of creativity and do what you want with it. And I can say from experience that dreams respond to emotions and expectations (subconscious ones mostly, but also conscious ones). It's kind of a look into the blackbox that's always running in the background of our thoughts
Felix Wankel had a dream as a 17 year old who had no knowledge of traditional combustion engines, in his dream he came up with the concept for the rotary engine which he later on in life created. Another famous example of dreams becoming reality.
My dreams are all over the place, sometimes vivid, lately my brain conjures some physically traumatic scenarios just to wake me up to use the restroom. It's a little too extreme.
I've been told I don't get enough oxygen when I sleep due to my irregular upper respiratory structure, which is why I black out when I close my eyes and make it very hard to wake up (I go through 5 alarms); I feel most rested with 12-14 hrs of sleep, has been that way all my life. But on the rare occasion I do dream, and usually an elaborate "movie". A week ago I was driving from the UK to Mauritania and got held up by rebels in Western Sahara. Another time I was Mario and saved Princess Peach before flying away on a crocodile. My dreams usually feel about 3 to 4 hours, and I've confirmed with one that was 4.5hrs
yeah dude you might have sleep apnea... get that checked out man
I have sleep apnea and I agree with you I go through these very long continuous dreams that last the entire night and it’s hard to wake up. I have to lose weight and lay off the cigarettes…
Same and I majorly remember almost all of my dreams
I can vouch for the Tetris thing. There was a point where I was hella addicted to Tetris 99, and for a while whenever I was in that in-between state where I was just about to fall asleep, I’d be seeing those blocks falling.
Same bro!!!!
Im not addicted to Tetris, but yeah I have that with other games. Except there's always something annoying like super Mario that cant land on a block he just kept falling in my head
when i was obsessed with minesweeper i always had dreams of clicking tiles… it was almost exactly like i was playing the real game
this is too real lmfao, i was seeing possible moves on how to do a t spin
ME TOO
It always amazes me whenever I see a newspaper or a book in my dream because how my brain is able to put so much words together while I suck at art in real life
You know how memory experts can memorize and repeat a hundred random words by creating a story using said words? I feel like dreams are the same. But dreams are not just made of things you experienced in the last day or so. I think our brains create little stories every night to stop neural pathways to our memories from decaying.
Wow that really make sense
I don’t agree. I, for example, have dreamt things that happen in future and they make no sense as to how’s it’s possible
I have a couple of places that I sometimes happen to visit from time to time in my dreams. They're completely made up yet the feel so real and I know them so well I could draw a detailed map. They are kind of a mix of many places of my childhood and some fantasy landscapes. Sometimes years pass between each time I visit them in my dreams and I get so emotional, it's like finding a long lost familiar place.
I see places in different dreams too. Also, people. Sometimes I make recurring friends. And, about once a year i dream I’m with my best friend and favorite actor….Nicole Kidman. Those are my favorite. ❤️🤟🏻
Solving something in a dream happened to me a couple of times in college while solving a problem in finding the error of my code on a program I'm working on. I can vividly remember the solution when I woke up. So I went to my computer, applied what i dreamt of, and just like magic.. everything worked perfectly. 😊😊😊
I write my dreams down since a few years, and I also write some interpretations. I'm often able to remember very much.
Details, story, emotions, even thoughts. I remember my dreams often every day. I collected great stories, and I think I could compensate my very large lack of creativity and imagination with that ability and hobby. Dreams are very important and interesting for me. It's almost like I live two lives: One in our reality and one in the dream world.
I feel a bit like Alice in Wunderland, which is also my favorite movie/fairytale of my childhood. I was so obsessed with this movie since I'm able to remember and my mother was so annoyed by that haha
Thank you so much for putting so many skits of what you’re talking about! Sometimes it’s hard for me to just listen to someone talk and the skits help me to understand it better! Thanks for all the knowledge 💯
Non-native spearker you are, I think.
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I occasionally “dream” while “awake”, i will start dreaming yet at the same time awake enough to say to myself “why am dreaming this?” Its a very odd situation. As a long distance runner that often runs sleep deprived its no unusual to experience hallucinations - dreams while awake if you will. One more thing to think about: doubt humans are the only animals than dream - i know my dig does, the whoofs and even “runs” in his sleep, you back see his rapid eye movement under his lids, all dog owners know this.
I’m 44 and since I was a little kid I’ve dreamt about being in a Costco type store where people are scrambling for items when a scary militia comes in to round people up. I’ve always escaped into an apocalyptic city. It’s always terrifying. I live 200 miles from the nearest city now… I am not a prepper but those dreams are my most vivid and apparently guide some of my actions.
I think it's ok for you to prep and be guided by your dreams, but don't let them control you.
And that's what it sounds like you're kinda close to.
Okay has anyone else stopped remembering dreams I haven’t remembered on in the last 8 years. I guess may be 4 total that I remember.
I'm at that point where I don't get enough sleep to see dreams 😔
@@areaakhil7266 that’s what I thought so I took sometime off from work got really good sleep but no dream lol.
Yup. The only reason I dream now is if I’m in a middle ground between asleep and awake and if there’s an external stimuli going on, like an alarm going off or someone in the room, then my brain somehow forms a dream around that and puts that into the dream so I sleep through it… other than that, I don’t remember any dreams at all.
I'm probably special, because I remember dreams vividly. Textures, smells, touch, etc.
@@AluminiumPanda6 I always wonder why that happens on internet and my doctor have blamed me working late nights on my channel. On certain days and then sleeping in time on other.
one time i had a dream that i was standing at the edge of a cliff picking strawberries, and i reached out to grab one and i fell off. then i heard a squirell say "im coming" in a scary murderer type way which makes me think he was going to kill me. my sister threw a rope down, and i grabbed it and she pulled me up but the squirell chased me and tried to latch onto me before i could make it to safety. luckily i escaped just in time. it was one of the scariest dreams i have every had.
When I was young I used to have very vivid and seemingly long dreams. The kind of dreams that stay with you through out the day, you can't stop thinking about them. I used to write them down in a dream journal. As I got older, I seemed to have stopped dreaming (or more like, stopped REMEMBERING) my dreams. It makes me kind of sad, in a way. I used to go on strange adventures.
There was one time where I had a dream about a particular house. It wasn't my house, or anyone I have known then or since. But I remember every detail. Then, one day several years after having said dream, and my Dad and I were driving down some back road of a small town we had never heard of to pick up a trailer my Dad was buying. And I swear....we passed by The House. EVERYTHING was as I remembered from my dream. Every detail. Down to the color of the curtains in the window. The number of flower pots on the porch. Everything. I had never been there before, but somehow, someway, I knew that house.
I also used to dream about a particular town all the time. Not a real town, one that my brain created, but I used to have several reoccurring dreams that took place in this particular town, and from several different parts of the town. I used to call them districts. There was a housing district, a business district, the outskirts, the megaway (think a gigantic freeway, I mean absolutely massive, like 20 lanes on each side and it had a weird U-turn section where the U part went up into the air almost like a roller-coaster and the cars just kind of....drove up it and around, no problem), the back roads.... All of it connected, but all of them were separate dreams.
I need to find that dream journal, I don't know if I still have it or not...
I was about to ask you about the journal! I'd be interested to read it if you ever wish to publish it! ❤
That sounds uncannily like how my dreams have been for a long time now, they all seem to take place in this town, and I'm usually trying to find a way to get to my accommodation because I don't drive but I have to travel down that mega freeway to get there.
So, did you ever find it?
Dreaming is an important part of my life. Often I dream inside a dream, lucid dream, have false awakening (annoying as hell if it happens during weekday), and the craziest one is, starting to dream before I even fall asleep - like the dream has begun but I'm still kind of conscious
always draining never enough sleep i hate it
Thats called hypnagogia.
Woah bro be cautious you might be having signs of insomnia
It has happened with me too.... Like when I go to sleep I start dreaming while being conscious at the same time....I mean I was just lying on my bed dreaming something but at the same time I could also listen to what my family members were saying in the room ..... But it usually happens at the very early stages of sleep....
I do all this too…Im glad it isnt just me.
I took German for three years in high school, fifty years ago. Sometimes I dream where I and others are fluent in German. Like a business trip I took to Dublin when we met a German in a restaurant and that was the language for the night.
This is the reason dreams are closely linked with story writing. Both dreams and stories are problem solving.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Dreams are just what they say dreams. No reason or rhyme. No one will evercfigure them out
I love writing out all my dreams and looking back on them after years 😂
Same here!
I can't even write because I dream even if I nap for ten minutes.
What’s weird is that some of my dreams turn out to be prophetic.
I draw them in comic format, especially if they’re visual like aliens, wild animals, or scary ones.
@@christopherflux6254 example please!
Dreaming is like your subconscious trying to tell your conscious side something through a window and all you can hear is muffled noise
I happen to actually enjoy nightmares but I think its because of my positive attitude towards dreams or the fact I play videogames so when something scary happens like I run into a monster or demon I'm more likely to fight than run away
My dream constantly automaticlly shut down itself without me even wake up
I'm currently an 8th grader in elementary school, and by my dreaming experiences personally agree with the theory about social practice, prepare-for-danger theory and problem solving one. When I have a math problem, I usually dream about solving the problem, and get it solved in the morning. Also, whilst I started thinking about my future (wanted) career in neuroscience, and started to realize that I would need every grade to be perfect and to be successful in competitions, I've started dreaming about getting a difficult task, or many of them, and needing to work in high stress environment with many task to complete. After that, when I wake up, my worries and stress get alleviated instantly.
Wait the hell kinda elementary school you going to
@@absolutefoot4594 I'm now in high school, but it's not about the school itself always. Sure, I chose one of the most demanding schools in my country (Croatia), and more tasking assignments put stress on my classmates and me, together with all present pressure when grades are involved. But the true challenge arises from my aspiration to compete in chemistry and biology, respectively - which requires a lot of time and effort, which I sometimes don't have or am too tired to have. Despite my worry, I got an extraordinary result in the biology competition last year, and I hope I can follow up this year with chemistry and biology.
In retrospect, I do not know why I am "confessing" my life's problems in a TH-cam comment, but I guess there is no considerable harm in it, so I am keeping it.
@@darkprelate I was initially referring to the fact that you attended elementary school for eight years, which is just longer than I've ever heard of. I'm not familiar with any kind of science competitions either, but it's interesting to hear how others do things differently. Ok also your focus in biology and chemistry is incredible; I wish you success!
The only thing I don't like about this video is it feels like he's saying that the psychological approaches are now outdated relics. Those theories still have influence and relevance today not only in a practical sense (Jungian psychotherapy, which can include aspects of dream interpretation, is still considered the most effective type of psychotherapy today), but also for a lot of modern literature and philosophy. I know this is a science channel, and I love science which is why I'm here, but science without humanity is cold and lifeless, a powerful machine. I know that's not the point of this channel, but I do think it's a perspective we should keep in mind, in general.
I think it's problem solving. I was in a violent relationship and I replayed the relationship for 5 years in my dream, it really sucked. It always ended where I was helpless and trapped. Then I went to therapy and my dream one day changed, I said NO to my abuser I regained my power. This gave me much more respect for my dreams. It was an amazing experience especially after years of being haunted.
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What do you call a Tylenol with great dreams for the future?
Aspirin'
A few nights ago I dreamed abt solving a math problem because the day after that we had a summative, it’s so strange yet interesting I love it
8:20 I've had this idea for a while that dreams are how we perceive the brain sorting our memories, linking associations and such before putting them more securely into long term. It would explain why dreams generally mix what happened during the day with memories we were reminded of. (For example, if seeing a movie reminded you of a friend, perhaps the dream would incorporate the friend into the events of the film.)
One thing I've noticed in my own dreams is what I call "dream geography". Where the setting of the dream will be based on places we've been to, but will especially draw on how originally remember them. There's a grocery store that had a huge remodeling done that changed placements of the entrance, the cash registers, all of it really, many years ago. When I'm awake I think of the store as it is now. But in my dreams, the grocery store takes its set up from how it used to be when I was a child. (Obviously the aisles get ever changing angles, and other strange changes that don't remain consistent for long, but the bare bones of it is based on the original set up. To the point that it's through the dreams that I've been able to piece together my memories of what it used to be like. Mostly. Still not sure if I remember correctly where the dairy aisle used to be.)
this holds true to my theory that we have two separate memory's one for dreams and one for real world memory's. When you were a child you must of dreamt of that supermarket and then when you are dreaming later in life you are drawing from your dream memory's
Even though I don't live in my parent's house anymore, in my dreams ,I only see my old house ..
How would you explain dreams that are completely unrelated to movies or memories? I've experienced both places and events in my dreams more than once that I've never experienced in any form during a waking state
@@vickielove9066 You might have your conscious brain is just not aware of it, also possible that the brain can conjure images and locations from existing memories by mashing them together- Highly likely since the neurons sit that close to each other
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Sometimes my dreams are episodic, if I wake I return back to the dream, and the best ones for some reason are apocalyptic, like nuclear war, devastating weather events, and aliens and or zombie wars!
Dreams let you switch place with your subconsciousness and hand over the drivers wheel for a moment while it explores your memories and fantasy.
Trust me Joe, for a person with PTSD and warshock like me, dream is NOT a good thing. I can get hurt because of my dreams, and wake up in pain and shivering fear because of dream (and even if I don't dream).
I feel for you I have PTSD and post concussion (not from war). My dreams are hard to experience and often feel like they are weeks or months in duration. Often I'm confused and in pain, can't figure out what is going on. Frequently I know that if I don't figure it out I'm going to die. And I can't figure it out. So in the end I just give up. Then when I wake up I'm in pain and have major brain fog for a couple of days, even though my injuries healed years ago. It sucks.
just don't PTSD 😏
@@rubixloverful PTSD is a mental condition. You can't "don't do" PTSD
@@rubixloverful You'll laugh until you have it. You'll wonder why you can't control your own thoughts which makes it vomit, spasms and whatsnot. Sorry for the political terminology but enough with the right-wing mindset. Don't laugh at what soldiers experience after a war, you insecure pri**
@@YeenMage then don't soldier 😏
This is, quite possibly, the best "It's Okay To Be Smart" video ever.
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Top 5 yt intros. Honestly spectacular
Hobbyist author here. Some of my best stories are based on my dreams- one story so much so that I actually just wrote the dream down and tried to reverse engineer a story out of it instead of drawing inspiration. I think dreaming is definitely some sort of method of brainstorming- all the dreams i have about stories end up feeling more satisfying and natural than ones i think of while awake.
Dreams are the original AI engine
Me too! Some of my favorite stories are based on dreams, even series of multiple dreams that all felt connected
@@wowbobwow-j9n GENUINELY YEAH! It's raw unfiltered organic neural network with little to no Moderator Intervention
I've always seen dreams as the subconscious' way of keeping us entertained while we sleep, since we'd have dreams that could be sad, scary, funny, etc. It's like watching a movie without being awake, and you being the main character
Good theory..maybe natures way to ensure we get enough rest
There was a time during my teenage years but I was at my healthiest happiest Era and every night during my vacation I used to be like, “Hmm… So which genre would we like to watch tonight?” before placing my head on the pillow
So in my senior year of high school when the uvalde shooting happened I had a nightmare about being in a shooting and everyone trying to leave at once and it happened during passing period. Our school was one of the largest in the district and we had little to no precaution besides a few security guards. That day I begged not to go to school due to an overwhelming feeling of dread/impending doom. That day it was swatted due to a school shooting hoax. People genuinely thought they heard gunshots in the school and people were so scared.i was at home scared for everuone
For 2 months straight I had dream of dying...I literally died 50+ and every time differently...now I don't fear death, I already died too much
I've never died in a dream. Which makes me feel like if I do die in my dream it's probably for real. I've come close but woke up before I died. I also can't physically hurt anyone either. I've tried fighting for my life and there is literally no power in my punches.
I don't remember ever dying in a dream and waking up, but once, in the middle of a dream about being in a war that was happening in my village for some reason, I was hit by a tank shell, and I believed I was 'dead', but I was just paralysed, still conscious in the dream, just aware of the fact I was dead. Don't remember how that felt
@@adamcummings20 lol it sorta sounds like your brain knew how you had to play your part to make it make sense, like an actor laying still after being "shot", but obviously couldnt understand it so it was just sitting there watching the clock
I think i died 5 times in my dreams and i always think i died in real life and i start thinking about life
We always dream:
If you're awake, you dream of the world,
if you're sleeping, you dream of, what's inside yourself.
Don’t forget the indigestion factor. Aka, the siren going by your window, or low flying jet plane overhead. External interruptions often trigger dreams to which our minds assign a sometimes elaborate meaning.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
9:50 Joe -"Dreams let us practice dangerous events and situations "
Meanwhile in my dreams- "Ahhhhh the half unicorn half demon math teacher is trying to become a fairy and needs to make me do a 1000 sums to become a fairy!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!"
seems you had a little catching up to do, how thoughtful of your brain...
@@CheeseOfMasters haha😂
I can't wait to see my passed away twin sisters, both died but about a decade apart. Love to see my lost loved ones, i wake up feeling like i got to visit them, even if in a dream. Feels so real.
If dreams might help keep the visual cortex functional, what does this mean for persons who are blind? If a person has never been able to see, what are their dreams like?
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Wow. They should cover this up in the next episode.
They don't see the dreams but they hear it or smell it or feel it
@@ratre7349 how do you know?
@@dellaamelia3373 i read somewhere in internet
I always considered dreaming to be the process where our brain has the time to analyze what is has experienced over the day and where to put it into perspective to other past memories as during the day when we are awake our brain has simply no time to do that as new experiences keep rushing in permanently and it must keep processing the new stuff as it has priority over any old one. During times where you experience a lot you seem to dream more often and more intense which would make sense as there is also more to process. It's a bit like seeing a movie twice, the first time just for the entertainment and the second time to analyze it in detail which you had no time to do the first time you watched it. And the second time you will also compare it to other movies, look for hidden references, compare actor performances to their past performances, and so on. The advantage is that after this reprocessing we will get a better understanding of what has happened, how to put it into perspective, and that will help us to make better decisions for the future and help us to react better in similar situations which is a huge evolutionary advantage.
Wait, dreams can be repressed memories? This explains a dream I had years ago! I was in a car accident when I was very very little, and a few years later, even though I didn’t remember the accident, I had a dream about it! I only remembered about 20 seconds of the dream, but it basically told the whole story of what happened that day. I am so glad I no longer need to be confused about that!
Have had accidental lucid dreams at a fair rarity without remembering using any prescribed methods. I’ll tell you from experience, I manifested a dragon out of view to land in front of me to have me ride it. And also had conversations with people who were distinctively not human. Just to show: maybe it is not limited to non-fiction-or-fantasy. Though even I still have a rather tricky time doing things like flying.
Whenever I lucid dream o accident, i alwaya have the urge to break the laws of physics: explode things and create stuff out of nothing. I can do those things, initially, but soon my brain starts negating me, because it does not understand how to create things out of nothing and end up waking up. I know there are tricks, like, looking away, then looking back and imagining a thing there, but when im asleep i cannot remember to put them in practice. Its still fun tho.
Lucid dreaming is underrated and sadly mist people dont even know it exists. You can have them more by keeping a dream journal and doung reality checks
The way I've always figured that dreams work, just from my own experience of them and the little that I know about how narrative memory works, is that as we sleep various things that have been on our minds recently flit through our brains, and as we think of each thing we imagine it for a moment as we tend to do when we think of things while awake, but because there's no other clear narrative events happening in reality as we sleep (unless something *is* noticeably happening around us, in which case that might get worked in alongside the thoughts in our own heads), the part of the brain responsible for writing narratives that connect our experiences together tries to write a story to make sense of how we had a flash of one thing and then had a flash of another, possibly very different thing -- and the narrative that it constructs can include however much time in between them it needs to, without actually taking that much time, but the narrative is what we remember experiencing, which is why time in dreams doesn't track with reality.
So dreams are not random, they are topical to things we've been thinking about (and things that those things may make us think of too), and things that happen while we sleep, but they're strange because the narrative-forming part of our brain is reaching to come up with one consistent story for why we (apparently) experienced all of those different things together like that.
That's a very interesting and insightful perspective of it and I appreciate how you've described it. Logically, to me, this seems like a very possible explanation
Well put. This is how it seems to me too.
9:34 i have had numerous dreams about being on some space ship ans there being the alien from the game alien isolation, i have never once considered them a nightmare, yet they are definitely scary in the moment when i dream.
I have always wondered about how we get dreams. Thx for posting😊
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When I dream I usually see the equations I've studied that day, but if I try to solve them I end up doing nonsensical calculations, and only when I get up I realize I didn't solve anything at all. Then I think the dream is just trying to save the equations as a long term memory, or maybe keeping my mind active to continue the calculations next day, who knows.
Absolutely fascinating! The universe's oddities never fail to amaze
What concerns me the most in my dreams is when I see and talk to my deceased loved ones and when I have a nightmare that ends waking up screaming or feeling panic. I wonder what science has to say about those ones?
Ever since the start of the pandemic, my experience with sleep paralysis literally skyrocketed. At first it was about a harmless black blob watching me inside my room. After I moved back to my dormitory because of my classes, though, each experience was accompanied by a nightmare, or an uncomfortable dream would end as a nightmare. It is always about someone or something trying to get inside my room and hurting me in some ways and it's still going on. It is painfully obvious that I am scared of getting infected because I never saw these kind of dreams prior to the pandemic. I literally started to wake up screaming.
"harmless black blob" if you can acknowledging at this point can give you an opportunity to lucid dreams. Another option is when you see a repeating occurrence before the really scarry part, wake up. If you feel paralyzed, concentrate moving a muscle group. I use my vocal cords. It takes about as much practice as waking up before you uranate.
Next time you see the black blob, imagine trying to have sex with it.
I am grateful that here, there are so many people who have dream experiences like me. I am sometimes very confused by the dreams I have, sometimes my dreams are a sign, do I have to do something according to the dream I had last night? Or is there something that is actually a code for me? Like a mystery, and it's unfortunate that every beautiful dream I have must be the memory always fades when I wake up, maybe it's rare but I've experienced lucid dreaming too, like I'm dreaming and when I open my eyes a little, I'm awake but like when I close my eyes, I can magically continue the dream according to what I want like I arranged it with a conscious brain, woahh that's wonderful
This is strange.... last night I saw my late father in a dream and in the morning I was trying to use usual arguments in neuroscience society about why do we dream... and now I see this! :)))) Keep up the good job bro.
I once had a dream where I died. Idk how it happened it was blurry what happened before but all I know is I was in a house with a friend and ppl were after us we got caught and brought to the woods behind the house. I tried making a run for it and all I heard was my friend scream,me turning around only to see the end of a barrel staring right at me. I hears the shot and somehow felt the impact on the side of my head. Usually you'd wake up after dying in a dream but this time I didn't. It all went dark and I could still feel the grass poking my skin and some of my blood flowing on one of my fingers I could hear muffled running screaming and shooting but the running continued and all I could think was:"I hope my friend made it." And at that time realised I was sleeping but wouldn't wake up. I couldn't pinch myself or anything. I just felt a point of pressure where I'd been shot the grass poking my skin and the blood sliding across my finger. Dying in a dream was weird cus I felt the void I always thought of after death. It was empty and quite but blurry and painful. I stayed in that state for about what felt like an hour maybe and then woke up much earlier than I'd usually wake up even though I swear I'd overslept
I 've been thinking about this bizzar issue for 20years, I found I am in a totally paralleled world in my dreams with expilicit and chronological plots , authentic sensings,and even philosophical and critical thinking...
Maybe dreams are also partially an incentive to keep us asleep, since it's so important to our health. I also could very easily be wrong, since feeling tired is already a reason for us to go to sleep. Dreams are so weird, it's difficult to list all the purposes they might have!
That’s actually really smart!
I think dreams are ways our brains try to solve things that are important to us. When I had to compose for an upcoming deadline to apply for a undergrad music composition course but was out of ideas, I dreamt that I was listening to a Mahler Lied which stuck with me so much so that I actually composed a lied almost similar to the one I heard in my dream. I have had three other pieces that spawned from my dreamworld since then and I've only just began my journey as composer. It's like my mind tries to communicate with me to guide myself in the right direction.
I can’t vouch for that but I have always noticed that ever since my sleep schedule has been fucd and I sleep 6-3pm, That I have more dreams, more lucid dreams and more normal dreams that I can remember, and also remember it more clearly than night dreams. Also something to do with visual cortex in brain because I had more vivid/scary dreams when I sleep facing up on my back.. blood must be accumulating a little bit more in that location (back of my head)
@@beactivebehappy9894 That's because the deep dreamless sleep slow wave sleep happens during night
@@couch1596 I have a feeling taller people have a higher chance of being a heavy sleeper than short people because of the greater amount of growth hormone.
The oddest dream related experience I had was when I had covid earlier this year. I had 5 of the most vivid dreams ever. Everything felt real and there weren't any of those odd telltale signs of a dream (like going from one place to another with no memory of doing so). Of those 5 dreams, 3 came true within a month of going back to work. First was not a stretch. The second was a little bit of a stretch but I explained it away as I subconsciously picked up on something. The third was WTF moment as it was about being given an assignment for a client I hadn't worked with in years for an application I had never worked with.
I would love for the other two to come true but I'll leave it at that for now.
I still, 10 months later, have vivid memories of those dreams as if a normal memory.
Interesting