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  • @wurf5336
    @wurf5336 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    As software engineer I have been doing this for years and I can confirm that it works. You just think about the problem before going to sleep and in the morning it is so much easier to solve it, that it is crazy...

    • @sjkkkkklammmmnnnnjnij
      @sjkkkkklammmmnnnnjnij ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Try the gateway process tapes from the cia! Really special things to experience

    • @kiklocus4660
      @kiklocus4660 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ray Kurzweil says the samething,

    • @kentheengineer592
      @kentheengineer592 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      100% Exactly Im SoS Engineer

  • @MrTakentime
    @MrTakentime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I'm a carpenter and multiple times I have had problems with how to build something and without fail I have built it in my dreams and the very next day have my dream build work flawlessly ty for this interview

  • @omarjdiaz
    @omarjdiaz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    This is 1000% correct, as a mechanic, many a times I have gone to bed after a frustrating day and have solved the issue in a dream and applied it to the project I was stuck on.

    • @redstag270
      @redstag270 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes!!! Hahaha

  • @maj.kamper9314
    @maj.kamper9314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I do this, I often solve problems in my sleep. Whether it’s a car I’m working on, or a life problem. It happens just like that too. I can’t stop thinking about it so I fall asleep thinking about it. And when I wake up I know the answer or solution.

  • @zeerakkhan7806
    @zeerakkhan7806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I practice Jim Keller’s approach of harnessing sleep to solve engineering and technical problems intentionally, and it works extremely reliably, the solutions are often robust allowing me to frame both the problem and the solution in a more coherent conceptual framework which is very edifying.
    Whilst at the same time, I don’t think that I’ve paid some sort of toll on the emotional side of my personality, as was suggested by Matt.

  • @daviddonadze221
    @daviddonadze221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I am a software developer and often solve problems while sleeping. I think about problems before I go to deep sleep and often I see errors in the code.

    • @bambino205
      @bambino205 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What's your method like how you do it to work efficiently

  • @sirmrguitardude
    @sirmrguitardude 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If I'm learning a real tough Bach piece I always remember it better after I sleep on it.

  • @ldandco
    @ldandco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Ever since I saw Lex talking about himself drinking vodka, I now have the feeling he drinks a bottle every time before he does an interview

    • @sinanengin5756
      @sinanengin5756 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is that why he is slurring all the time lol

    • @sinanengin5756
      @sinanengin5756 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is that why he is slurring all the time lol

  • @kentheengineer592
    @kentheengineer592 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I Literally Did This Exact Thing On Sunday Morning Today

  • @prayaanshmehta3200
    @prayaanshmehta3200 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:30 mendeleev
    2:38 paul mcartney

  • @hearithere.2603
    @hearithere.2603 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a child I suffered much Trauma in the home. I couldn’t wait to go to sleep and dream. I was always hungry so I started dreaming about food and it actually felt amazing.

  • @kwandakekana9890
    @kwandakekana9890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I saw this and clicked on it so fast

  • @JohanJonasson
    @JohanJonasson ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The comedian referenced when talking about Keith Richards is Denis Leary, from his awesome 1993 special "No Cure for Cancer". It still holds up pretty well if you're into that angry type of comedy.

  • @theflowerhead
    @theflowerhead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Chuck Norris of science.

  • @reabelmatte
    @reabelmatte 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I often do this, just because my brain is most awake in late evening. Problem is that I can think until I am exhausted, then when I go to to sleep, the small amount of rest I get is enough to kickstart it again, then I can't sleep for many hours, just laying there having some weird visions of all the recent thoughts.
    Anyway, maybe I should just stick to it, harvest the benefits of the dark arts.

  • @tubularbill
    @tubularbill 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Paul was filming “A Hard Days’ Night” with the Beatles

  • @AffyBoy
    @AffyBoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jose Silva

  • @caleb-hess
    @caleb-hess ปีที่แล้ว

    The key is not specifically sleep, but just walking away from difficult problems for awhile.

  • @Madchad6969
    @Madchad6969 ปีที่แล้ว

    This has happened to me i sometimes make music in my dreams but when i try to record it it’s kind of difficult

  • @byronlaws7193
    @byronlaws7193 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The comedian he was thinking of is Dennis Leary.

  • @OGTUkEk
    @OGTUkEk ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought he had on chuck Norris from the thumbpic

  • @saucyjk6453
    @saucyjk6453 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    garcia got the music for terrapin in a dream,. i wrote a song in a dream that was instrumental in getting a female vocalist signed to blue note records. dreaming is perhaps the most psychedelic state we can experience. the best example though is the famous indian mathematician ramanujan. pretty sure mccartney / yesterday was a dream(scrambled eggs).....
    tesla, einstein had dream insights

  • @braccoz
    @braccoz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I put this before I fell asleep...
    THINK: 100

  • @KJUgrin
    @KJUgrin ปีที่แล้ว

    There's nothing surprising about fasting producing focus & clarity. When we're out of food we need to be at our optimal performance in order to find our next meal. If hunger didn't make us smarter we'd have long since starved out of existence.

  • @andreww4751
    @andreww4751 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    idear

  • @nexusobserve
    @nexusobserve 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I once had a long hypnagogic state after taking 5mg melatonin, where I was stuck in body for 45 minutes thinking of numbers

  • @cee8876
    @cee8876 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    An ecumenical problem? Around the 1:20 mark.

  • @kwandakekana9890
    @kwandakekana9890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I believe fully in dreams

  • @olvinfuentes7514
    @olvinfuentes7514 ปีที่แล้ว

    I actually never dream which I think is a bit weird. I've spoken with some close friends and they tell me how vivid their dreams can get. The ONLY time I actually dream is when I smoke weed. But I rarely smoke maybe 1 or 2 times a year.

    • @sinanengin5756
      @sinanengin5756 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you a coffee drinker? I began dreaming again within 3 week's when i quit coffee..

  • @leashr
    @leashr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mhmm, I often dream about creating computer games, story and maps but I'm a web dev so never act on it.

  • @diraziz396
    @diraziz396 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sleep is good - Max Richter did it Best

  • @willingdemott8533
    @willingdemott8533 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Psalms 4:4
    Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

  • @theydisintegrate
    @theydisintegrate หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about "how to go to work while sleeping and dreaming of something else" ...?

  • @insighttoinciteworksllc1005
    @insighttoinciteworksllc1005 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Almost everything I know came through sleep. Sometimes, I would read in a book weeks after the dream and the information was there. In one dream, This person named Yeshua took me to a Giant warehouse full of shelves and boxes. Why some shelves were empty of boxes, I asked? He explains to me that the empty boxes were ideas known to man and the boxes there were ideas unknown to man. When I heard the Information Dimension Theory by Daniel Boyd 60 years later, the dream made sense. There was another person in the warehouse and he was angry. I asked Yeshua Why? Yeshua said the person was angry because he thought I was going to steal the idea. Yeshua said I am the inner teacher that reveals the unknown. They can't enter here unless it is because of intrinsic value. It is better than doing drugs?

    • @johrathbun
      @johrathbun 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow, sounds like the fabled Akashic records!

    • @insighttoinciteworksllc1005
      @insighttoinciteworksllc1005 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johrathbun The Akashic records have a pattern. It is from the matrix to Consciousness which means it is manmade. The theory of everything moves from Consciousness to the matrix. Mr.Johnson does this qualify for Zeroth Principle? The problem with Physics is there is a difference between computation and realization.

    • @TheGlowingOnee
      @TheGlowingOnee ปีที่แล้ว

      Sure bud

  • @russ1978
    @russ1978 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m a murderer and many times I have had a frustrating day and failed my objective, gone home and had a crazy dream about how to fix it. The the very next day I went on a successful killing rampage