Extremely fascinating lecture. I am 74 born in 1950. I seem to dream sometimes in color and sometimes in black and white (grayish). I cannot say when or why, but sometimes the color is vivid and other times it is drabbish. And speaking of movies and not ducking when the bus is coming toward you, I went to the theater with a girlfriend in 1994 to watch FOREST GUMP. I had never seen the movie nor did I know any of its content. When the Vietnam ambush scene in that movie hit, having been a combat vet with 75th Infantry Hotel Company (71), what I remember was me yelling, "CONTACT FRONT" and diving on the floor, before I even knew what had happened. Damn that Classical Conditioning aspect of the brain. I never got another date with her. Hahaha!
Thank you for your service, sir. Conditioned responses saved lives. I'd rather this than shell shock or PTSD. I am sure that there is lasting mental stuff. I have not served -- life got in the way. But I appreciate that you were able to share this story with complete strangers and be okay knowing that there are your people out here that support and appreciate you. And I do. Thank you.
I'm 69, never been in combat, my son went into the Marines in '01, he went to war and my Dad died in '04, I suffered with debilitating nightmares riding with my son and watching him die in many bloody horrific ways while I bore no affect. I was waking drenched from head to toe in sweat, and grit my teeth so bad that I chewed 3 off and swallowed two of 'em. This went on for two years and found myself hollering to wake up, scaring the wife. I try like hell to forget them, the hundreds of them, but I'm still haunted by 2 of them. Thanks for serving, I died with my son over and over. Thank you. Now we need one patriotic Secret Service agent.
I had a dream of the future. It was so vivid . when I awoke, I told my girl friend . The dream was about my brother Pete who at the time was living in Florida. In the dream, I was talking with my brother and another person. We were beside a gas station. I walked to the side of the gas station to look down a road with houses on both sides dark and somewhat messed up. The sky was windy with clouds.There was a lot of tension all around with people coming towards me and I went back to my brother and told him that I had to leave and went to where I would live... a couple of months later, I got a call from my brother Pete. He was in Charleston , South Carolina, Just after hurricane Hugo hit . That’s where I ended up . When my girlfriend came down to visit, I brought her to that gas station, showed her the road , the only way into Sullivan Island and where I was living. I believe we have memories of the past and future
If you haven't had some kind of experience like this then you'll almost certainly dismiss such stories as being the product of confused timelines and/or an overactive imagination. And if you _have_ had some experience like this then you'll almost certainly accept stories such as yours at face value. I've never had a premonition dream before (or not one that I remember, anyway), but I did have, just once, an extended period of deja vu that lasted for about 3-4 hours. It was absolutely wild! I mean, the funny thing with deja vu is that you think "I've dreamt of this _exact_ situation before!" but you can never pinpoint _exactly_ when it was you had the dream, or I can't, anyway. On this one day, though, which was an otherwise completely normal day during which otherwise completely normal things happened, the feeling of deja vu was so constant, and so strong, that I was able to predict, with complete accuracy, the banal events that were about to come. "The driver of that car is going to park on the other side of the road, get out, and go into that house over there" (I had a friend with me). Like I said, nothing remarkable happened whatsoever, but what _was_ remarkable was the _feeling_ that came with _knowing,_ not guessing, not being 99% sure, but _knowing_ what was just about to happen. I can only describe it as peaceful. I didn't even think of going and getting a lotto ticket or something, it was just so _relaxing,_ so _calming,_ knowing that nothing _terrible_ was about to happen! We never notice it, of course, but even when we think we're as chilled as we can be, there must still be a part of us that's subconsciously always worrying about some disaster that might suddenly befall us! Anyway, as I said, nothing remarkable happened, and, apart from being able to perfectly predict the future, it was a pretty normal day. So, yeah, when you say you dreamed of a time in the future that came perfectly true, well... I have _no problem_ believing you. No problem at all! Have a great (future) day!
@@simesaidhad several experiences like that one lasted for half-hour another one for an hour really really quite disturbing thought I was hallucinating but everything i did was there including trying to shake it off
@@simesaid It's very possible that you just didn't remember you dreamed it. I had tons of precognitive dreams, since childhood, some really detailed. And déjà-vus as well, when I remember the dream I had. One lately, that I dreamed 40 years ago. I told to a friend that there will appear a poodle... well, it was kind of a poodle, a bit larger. And mostly, people point out the differences. Or that dream when I was in a stadium, watching my team playing vs. a team of another league and a player got the second yellow card (meaning a red card) in the first half. Well, some weeks ago, there was a cup game vs. that team. And the player got a direct red card in the first half. And a friend pointed that out (it was a direct red, not two yellow). Like with human beings, instead of seeing the similarities pointing out the differences.
My precognitave dreams became so common... In high school, I was having so many dreams about the lunchroom conversations between my friends and I that I began experimenting. I knew what my response should be and what would be said in response. I began saying something different to see if reality would somehow bend back to my precognative dream. It did not. The future was completely changed. From this, I learned that we are, indeed, the creators of our lives. There is no force compelling a certain future.
I must be the exception because as my 60s progresses I dream more lucidly. My dream life is better than my waking life and sometimes I don't want to wake.
@@the_kombinatorthat happened to me once. I woke up crying because we were being separated and for the next couple of days, every time I thought about the person, I’d start crying again with the feeling of being heart broken. Wow. It was so trippy and didn’t know anyone or heard of anyone that’s experienced that until your comment so thank you for sharing that.
@@moriel01 no macular degeneration began in her 70s. She's now in her 90s. Sometimes she dreams she has her blind stick with her but she can still see. I think its good she at least sees in her dreams.
Basically the brain is what sees. The eyes receive light signals and the brain creates the images in the mind. Everything we see is created within the brain. Close your eyes and think of a specific car... an image of that car will appear but you won't see the colour because light signals aren't coming through closed eyes
There are not a long list of TH-cam videos which have given me a PERFECT puzzle piece which is so revealing, so predictive and explanatory...That I immediately place it front and center as the most credible, elegant and helpful idea which explains the world. This is certainly one.
I guess you never had one of those dreams where you are being chased and you can't get away from that person or you try to beat them up and it's like being underwater you can't get that actual punch in ... Lol
This information is only useful to me if most of your dreams come true. Because if you’re just counting the hits and ignoring the misses, then it’s nothing more than simply coincidence.
@@teresaamanfu7408 Not enitrely true. If he dreams of a person only occur before a prophecy that come true. Maybe it's something you never dream about otheriwse. Fi a friend, object,..
...there's a difference between messages and just dreams, messages, meant for me and so I'm able to interpret them. Three times the FA Cup results have been revealed to me, no other event, just that one football competition. The first two dreams going not for my team, so no wish dream there. The last dream had too many details that seemed to involve the national team. I dreamt of three winners of one event in 30 years, and only these dreams. Not random.
I don't dream in B&W but the colors are really washed out, like watercolor, or even more bland. But then, I'm a musician and have always been very sound oriented, nevertheless, my dreams are always completely mute, since I can remember. There''s dialogue but no sound, no music, no drone sound..... nada. Again, Dr. Eagleman blowing my mind. Thanks for sharing .
I always watch these dream explanation videos to see if I could find some answers for my dream experiences and I never do. As a child, I would dream all of the time and I would remember so many of them, still do, but because, of that I think, I developed an awareness that I was dreaming. When I would have scary dreams, I was able to wake myself up. As a teenager, I had a couple of sleep walk experiences and the dreams continued. As an adult, I was experiencing sleep paralysis on a regular basis and they were increasing in frequency. I was told that what I was experiencing were night terrors and that it was not normal because an adult rarely experiences this and that it was more common in children. They could not understand what the reasons were and they tried to give me medication that was meant to “help” me achieve normal sleep. I refused and I stopped asking doctors . Meanwhile, through my 20s and my 30s, the night terrors were getting worse but weirdly I was becoming even more aware while in my dreams and now, not only was I able to wake myself up from the dream, but I realized that I didn’t have to wake up, instead I could fly away from a dangerous situation. The it took a while but in the last 5 years about, I can count the amt of night terrors I’ve had on a hand and I rarely have “silly” dreams. I still remember many of my dreams and I have definitely read in one, I had a dream I was using a phone for the first time just recently and I dream about having convos with relatives in their apt and they’d seem so real. Oh… and now, I’m in flight mode whenever I get the chance. Those dreams are the best. I’ve seen places so beautiful and alien but they were so real. I will never understand how my brain would create landscapes like the ones I’ve seen while flying. Then the dreams that I can move things with my thoughts and waking up feeling like a super hero. I know for a fact that there is way more to and about dreams than we are being told. I don’t believe that all of my dreams were visualized or created by the brain. I don’t understand how my brain could just create total strangers and places I’ve never met or seen. Or I could feel the air and pressure if I fly too fast. I think that dreams are meant to awaken some hidden, lost powers and skills that have been lost through time while at the same time, they also allow us to experience consciousness somewhere that we aren’t bound by the the laws of physics. If I’ve gotten to this point, I’m even more excited to see how this may evolve as I get older .
Yes because you really traveled with your astral body. I searched my whole life to explain my psychic dreams. I had the vision that equaled an event that turned out to be a full reenactment. Now I know this to be called astral projection or near death experience... all the same. The lies science tells. Please look up Daskalos, Rudolph Steiner, Jesus, Bob Monroe if you want the truth...✌️
I’m 77 now and have always been a prolific dreamer. When I was young I had many dreams about floating and being afraid that I might fall, but I can’t remember the last time I dreamed about it. Also, I used to dream about being chased and not being able to run fast enough. I don’t have that dream anymore. I used to have very science fiction dreams. And some of them recurred many many times. Some of these are still very prominent in my memory. The floating dreams I think many or most people have and so dreams seem to be caused by physical things going on in you, like being paralyzed when you are asleep. I had a bought of severe depression when I was 20 yrs old. During that time I had very bloody and violent dreams. During this time I learned how to control my dreams , the visual and outcome for me. When I was 5 or6 I had a dream about being in a tornado which caused me to be really frightened. When I woke up or maybe later I used my pastels to draw/ paint a picture of the landscape in my dream. The picture was very colorful with dead black trees and the atmosphere was all red and blue. I was very afraid of tornadoes 🌪️. Sometimes the dreams were wonderful and I loved them. I always feel disappointed when I wake up and they are over. I loved your presentation and want to listen to your other episodes. Thanks
Me either. I had many science fiction stories during the nights. I travel trough space.... Fights etc.... I can fly of course. If I am tried I am dreaming with seaside..... When I feel my life goes great I often dream I go for running and it goes well.
Had a dream that Prince approached me and said....so ...I heard you're a big fan ....then on same night...dreamed that I was telling my best friend about that great dream on meeting Prince....one my favorite dreams ever....
I look forward to dreams. Practice waking slowly to recall as much as possible. I have recently dreamt I was dreaming in the dream, woke, discussed it, then woke in my bed. Outrageous crazy! Good stuff! Levels of consciousness, or connecting to it? Fascinating
Amazing episode. I have been using VR for the last 8 months daily, and I have never seen a resemblance of such in my dreams, albeit I rarely dream or remember them.
I first encountered Dr Eagleman on his documentary episodes "the brain with Dr David Eagleman" - watch it if you havent its mind blowing. The brain may be good at telling stories - and his brain certainly is! Phenomenal educator ❤
Hello! Part four: During the 43 years of amazing dreams, I could have complex ones, during a cat-nap. Maybe I'd be sleep for 30 minutes or less, and I went to wild and faraway places. Most times I had them closer to when I was awakening. I had a few amazing "Lucid Dreams", where I saw myself lying in my bed, I was floating over myself,...looking down. I felt as if my eyes were open, yet I was dreaming at the same time. I have had many that were like De-ja-vu,....dreams, feeling I'd been there, somewhere, before. I've had a few dreams where I awoke, and I was paralyzed. I couldn't make myself move, or talk, or even grunt. IN REAL LIFE,....I survived a heart attack,....I live a few blocks from my hospital,.....and I was admitted to the heart hospital, & within a day of my heart attack symptoms. 24 hours later I was having open heart, double by-pass, surgery. It WAS extremely traumatic. I had tons of dreams, in the hours before the surgery,.....of course I was extremely worried I might die on the operating table. I was 47 at the time,.....and thank god,.....it has been 20 years later, and I'm still here,....though I have had many stents installed, along the way. I can't believe I am 70. Almost all my friends have already died,.....and I feel I am all alone, so often. I never made new friends with younger people. I had my core group of friends,.....we all went to college together, they lived in my town, some very close by.
I have had dream inside dream many times. It was very interesting. Even more fun was when I knew I was dreaming, but it didn't wake me up. I just kept going and I could dictate the outcome of the dream. I could do whatever I wanted. It was fun.
I love that the title of so many of your videos start with “why?” or “what?” I feel like I’m programmed to be a “questioner” so these videos are really satisfying , scratching an itch-ish😊
I remember a series of dreams where I was solving quadratic equations. I woke up and wrote those down and then solved them; I got the same result awake as I remember getting in my sleep.
When I was little I dreamed in black and white and we had a black and white TV. When I was about 12 years old we got a color TV and by the time I was in college at age 17, I was dreaming mostly in color. At 69 I always dream in color. I have thought that my dreams were related to the TV ever since I began to dream in color. Part of this is that my parents said that they had always dreamed in black and white. My belief was that we must have gotten the color TV when I was young enough to switch to color but my parents were too old for their brains to make the switch. I remember asking them and both made an interesting remark that before they had TV they thought they dreamed in color but when they saw TV in black and white they both began dreaming in black and white. I wish they were still alive to explore this further with them because we loved thinking about things like this.
Love your channel. Fascinating theories. I'm 64. I've been dreaming for a long time. I have a theory why we dream what we dream based on my memories of past dreams. Most you forget but some you don't. I think dreams are combinations of memories that are created daily throughout your life's experiences but are also memories of imaginary scenario's that you create an your mind about your realife experience's. I think it's a way for your brain to purge memories. To deal with a past or upcoming reality that you're stressed over.
I have the experience that you can train to remember your dreams by constantly trying to remember when you awaken. I also noticed that doing so, the dreams became more intense. E.g. more violent. So if of recording and reviewing your dreams become an option, this increasing intensity can become a side effect. Interesting video and field of science by the way. Thumbs up.
I really appreciated the analogy of the "brain map". Somewhere in life, I came across the idea that, just like the growth of any physical map, as we consciously learn and prioritize new concepts and associate them with, evaluate and reevaluate what we experience, our brain is making new paths within itself and has to repeat certain routes in order to make them a permanent installation. What we see in dreams may just be part a means to physically produce or reproduce synaptic pathways not previously well established .
I have a severe mental illness, and sometimes, the line between reality and my dreams gets blurred. It can be VERY confusing! Sometimes, when my dreamscape is really intense, I will wake up with big emotions of sadness, loss and mourning about leaving a world behind that I feel I belong in... it also causes a sort of amnesia about this reality and it takes me a while before I am reoriented in myself and my life here. This can induce panic and anxiety. I wish I could have my brain fixed and not be so confused anymore.
If you don’t mind, do you know the diagnosis of your illness? What is it because I experience the same exact thing! I often have to check and look for signs to figure out if something happened in my dreams or reality . Or an event will feel like a memory from like a few days ago and then it’ll suddenly hit me that it never happened at least in reality
This was startlingly informative in unexpected ways-I literally laughed when he said that someone had a theory about threats and dreams. I have never had a single dream of being chased or any such thing ever. I don’t ever have threat dreams, never any appearing naked, none of those. I rarely do have sex dreams but they are fragmentary and very rare. When he mentioned aggressive dreams or aggression in dreams, I have never even had a single dream ever that even slightly felt that way. So that was the most absolutely astounding and astonishing thing to hear that people report dreams like that. 😮 But I am extremely high in psychological traits agreeableness 95th and openness 99th percentile. 🤷♀️🤔 which might be related.
I could see dreams being evolutionarily advantageous because they help emotionally and mentally prepare you for potential situations. Almost like exposure therapy. So it produces the craziest, sometimes scary potential situations so that you’re better equipped to handle them while awake. Similar to how it’s been proven that athletes who visualize themselves winning a race end up performing better, because they visualized it beforehand. I think this in conjunction with dreams also being symbolic makes a lot of sense. Just my hypothesis and probably just one aspect of why dreaming exists. There are probably multiple explanations, not just one solid explanation.
Lucid dreaming is not easy. While dreaming, it is not much hard to realize I am in dream, but continuing the dream with still knowing that I am in the middle of dreaming is so hard. I used to remember well what I dreamed and has been journaling my dream so long. I feel like the experiences in dream also could be good resources for me anyways, so that's the reason why i am quite interested in this subject. The colors or sounds i has experienced in dreams are quite valuable for me as much as i had gotten in real life.
If you fall asleep with the lights on or have outside light coming through the windows you are more than likely to see colours in your dreams. Possibly could be light signals are somehow penetrating the eyes
I don't dream very often but when I do it's fucking EPIC, it's like a metaphysical purge and your brain gets a reboot and you feel like you've actually slept...
I’m a 56 yo woman…when I was a teen into my 20’s I adored B&W movies & old cinema - it was really all I would watch. I also studied french for 8 years during that time. Interestingly when I began dreaming in french, it was only ever in B&W while all of my native English dreams remained in vivid color. That has always amazed and puzzled me - I’ve just assumed it was because I was never fluent until I moved to France later in life and at the time my brain only had ‘RAM’ to process either a 2nd language or color but not both! Hahaha
When I dream of classmates from childhood, they are still children, but while I’m interacting with them (as my adult self) they is no sense that something is amiss in our age differences.
First time seeing any of your content and learning a good bit. I can recall dreams pretty much any time I am awaken. I can go back to sleep as long as it's less than 5 minutes and "finish" and/or continue a dream. I can recite what happened in the dream as long as I speak it after I awaken and before other aspects get introduced. I do loose those details after 15 minutes or so. My son has narcolepsy and Doctors have said that I may have some that was left un-diagnosed through the years. My son's condition was bad enough that he fell asleep in classes when he was younger some 20 years ago. Fortunately, I have never had any similar issues but rather do have odd sleep patterns sometimes sleeping as much as 12 or 14 hours without problems. #subscribed
The example of being at work...or school without clothes has always been my most common unpleasant dream. When I was younger, the school scenario was much more frequent but now they mostly involve work, for obvious reasons. I have always wondered if this was common. Anyone?
I think this is a fairly common dream - perhaps it says something about wanting to be seen for your genuine self. Everyone sees thremselves and others wearing their defensive masks. We are all fearful of revealing our true self to the world. This is part of the "human condition," it seems.
I have found that the specific scenerio of a dream is not relevant. What is relevant are the *emotions* generated by the dream. For example, in one dream I am naked, but it is perfectly normal in that unverse and it generates no emotion. If there is negative emotion, is ihe emotion embarassment, fear, guilt, or something else. The biggest fear in going to school is that you forgot something. You forget a book, or you forget a homework assignment. The dream of being without clothes may be simply the embodyment of the emotion of "having forgotten something". In this case - your clothes.
I’ve had a dream about a person and at the time of my dreams I had never met them but end up a year later meet them . I didn’t talk to them so I just seen them , thought it would be weird .
When I was pregnant with my first, one night I dream a little girl standing next to my bed and say' Mammie I get cold' few days later I have a miscarriage and it was a little girl. With every other 3 pregnancy I dreamed if it is a girl or boy. I also dreamed over and over of places and years later I saw this places is real. I still wondering if it is only accidently that the dreams come thru.
I keep hearing that dreams only exist during rem sleep, this isn't how my brain works, if i can fall into a long detailed dream then wake up 5 mins after i lay my head down then i clealy dream without going into rem.
Ever fall back into one of several realities? Even if you haven't been there in years, you come back to each reality in time and it's like you never left.
I understand that people who are blind also have REM sleep. I’m interested because I’m blind from birth totally. Only, I never see any visuals because there are no visuals for me to see. I guess my visual cortex is being used for tactile stimuli any thoughts?
That's exactly right: The circuitry for dreaming is ancient, and you still have activity going into your occipital lobe every 90 minutes or so during the night. If you're interested in more about this topic, you can find more in the book Livewired.
I always wondered if I’m experiencing something that other people do as well. If I rub my eyes, I get a series of geographical shapes a lot of trapezoids lines that never ever makes sense to me, especially when I consider that during an accident I had in 2016. I was given a high dose of ketamine because my foot had been ripped off at the ankle. The geographic shapes that I typically see if I rub my eyes was exactly what I felt when I was going under with the Ketamine… way more intense.. but I remember being in a zone where I wasn’t conscious, but I could still think and I was telling myself “Did I just die? .. am I dead.? And a very real sense of fear and fright..
I mostly remember my dreams all day* ... If I remember them when I wake up, I tend to easily remember them for ages afterwards* If I _don't_ recall a dream when I first wake up, then the dream's details usually doesn't emerge later. I have had a sleep EEG which proved that in the deepest of sleeps, I can _hear_ what's going on within the room, plus nearby sounds or conversations going on outside the room where I'm sleeping. The 'sleep technician' said she was amazed at the level of sleep I had had for just twenty minutes _on less than half the dose of the caplet given to induce the necessary sleep_ for the test, (following the application of multiple sensors glued to my scalp!) I was also sleepy for the rest of that day, and it was as if I had had an epileptic seizure - which I had experienced frequently since I was six years old, after having a wooden chair fall from its stacked position on a table near where I was sitting in the floor, in Primary School. (I also had Meningitis when I was _seven_ years old, but I don't recall dreams from when I was asleep when I had that illness). My dreams have never given me images of falling, or of slipping on randomly positioned areas, my dreams have always appeared as 'real life' albeit in odd locations, such as either being where I grew up, or in places I have never been, and yet recognise as a dwelling or as a 'real place' ... I have never dreamed of falling, or chasing, or being chased, or of friends or family within my field of vision. I am aware of people I know, but I don't see them. I speak to them. Very rarely I have dreamed a friend was a famius person. Mostly I dream I am walking...but in waking life, I use a wheelchair now to get anywhere. I dont dream about driving, or riding a bicycle, or swimming and I _don't_ do those activities in waking real life. I did used to ride horses but I dont remember horseriding in my dreams, sadly. I wouldn't describe my dreams as "being in colour"!! I describe my dreams as being real life...and I never describe my real waking life as living life "in colour". I don't recall ever having dreamed un black and white, and I am 71 now, and never saw a television until I was six years old, listening to the radio only. My Mum took me to the doctor when I was younger than six, worried by my dreams and / or made up stories... The doctor just told her that I had an active imagination and would probably become an author when I grew up... (I'm not sure Mum was calmed by the notion!) I write poems and rhymes, but have never written a book. I wish I had! If I did, it might be either an autobiography, or a work of fiction... It might ( _now_ ) even have a title, of sorts...to do with dreams!! I dont worry that my dreams are understood, or whether or not they can be determined as having meaning. I either dream.p, or not, enjoy them, or not, and just live my life with my imagining brain "just doing its stuff"!! It is _not so unusual_ to dream 'lucid dreams' ... I've done it off and on for as long as I can remember... Doesnt everyone?! 🤔🏴❤️🇬🇧🙂🖖
I have Parkinson’s disease, and I recently switched from taking pills to using a subcutaneous pump. This change has helped stabilize my dopamine levels. For the first time in four years, I can get six or seven hours of uninterrupted sleep. Before the pump, my sleep was so fragmented that I couldn’t remember my dreams. Now, with the pump, my "normal" dreams have returned, and I wake up feeling refreshed. However, if my pump fails during the night-usually due to a kink or a leak-my sweet dreams can quickly turn into nightmares, and I struggle to wake up.
Thank you Dr Eagleman. I have been experimenting with something new about my dreams in the past couple weeks. Everytime I sleep with my earphones in, listening to a book or classical music, I do not dreams. Or if I have a dream , it is something very light, nothing I can remember when I wake up. I don't know if anyone ever had that experience.
This video mesmerized me thank you for the content and info. Around min 40-42, was he describing lucid or vivid dreamers. I can control my dreams once I know I’m dreaming and stay in the dream😴😴. Can’t wait for the next vid
Antidepressants increase my dreams and nightmares. Same as anti seizure medication increased my nightmares and seizures. Psilocybin has helped but it's still in the research stage. That is pushing me to finish my degree so I can partake in the research and study of the impacts of medication and plant medicine on the brain. Took decades of trauma to get me here. But I am pushing through to get into psychology, physics, and neuroscience to help make sense of it all. Path to my degree starts in a couple months. See you on the other side.....
I enjoyed the episode about dreams. I would like to know how and why some people but not but not all people sleep walk and why do most people not get injured. Also what should we do if you see someone sleep walking.?????????
Once I was in the kitchen late at night reading a magazine. My brother came in and went over to the kitchen counter and made a peanut butter sandwich. He left the sandwich on the counter and returned to bed. The next day he did not remember it. Was he sleep walking??
Well, interesting, all the information is there. Now putting it together in a way that makes the most sense. It seems like if we use a ternary system we can certainly get a intuitive understanding of the process of most dreams.
I don't buy that we don't have access to our memories while we're dreaming. In fact often times, it's me actually retrieving a memory that pulls me out of the realism of the dream. One moment I'm picking my mom up from her orange stand in Florida like I do every Saturday. The next I have a very vivid memory or her laying in casket and everything followed. The best/worst part is knowing you're in a dream. The best/worst part is finding the door and deciding whether or not to use the key.
Sometimes I'm able to realize I'm dreaming in my dream. One way to tell is to look at something then look away then look back at it and it will be different and then you will know you're dreaming. One of my favorite things to do in a dream is to fly.
I’m 61 and sometimes I do have a black and white only dream. Also when I was a child I used to have uncomfortable dreams such as finding myself naked in the middle of the crowded street I learnt to recognise this in the middle of my dreaming sleep state and either wake myself up or to change the narrative of my uncomfortable or scary dreams.
I’m convinced dreaming allows me to access my existences in parallel universes to solve especially difficult problems encountered in this universe, and visa versa.
Dr. Eagleman, thank you for this very interesting podcast. I always wondered why I had such a hard time using my phone while dreaming. Just last night, I dreamt that I was listening to the radio and heard a song that I really liked. I tried to pull up an app on my phone called “Shazam” that helps determine the names of songs by just listening for a few seconds; however, time after time, I couldn’t even type the word “Shazam” on my phone. After what seemed like a couple of minutes of failed attempts, someone on the phone said hello. In my dream, I recognized that I must have dialed a number in error, apologized, and quickly hung up. But after I hung up, I sensed that I recognized the voice on the other end. It was an old boss named “Shahram” who I worked for 20 years ago and had not spoken to since 2005. How my mind came up with this misdial scenario, I have no idea! Hahaha
Hello! Avid dreamer here. Beginning in high school, in 1969, I began journaling my dreams. I had crazy complex dreams. So crazy, that I felt compelled to write them down. I have a massive collection of highly detailed dreams. Some people can't remember their's, or they are so vague, they aren't worth writing down. I was lucky to have created a life style for myself, where I had the time to write them down. I worked in the Arts and my wake up schedule was always relaxed. If I don't have the time, I write a kind of short hand version. Before computers and word processing,....I scribbled them down, in note pads. After I had my computer,....combined with my crazy good skills as a fast typist, I can write them up quite quickly and the auto-correct, fixes any mistakes. I type fast and don't worry about the typos. I have a formatted dream journal,....where I can plug in the time, the day, and a quick blurb,.....I write enough that I can go back later and fill in the details. I am strict with myself, and don't make up stuff, if I can't remember it. I also, make drawings of weird dream objects and dream invented things.
@@nomofomo3995 I was a sculptor, and created one of a kind, furniture-like things. I'd have dreams about ones not yet created. I'd be walking through a room ( in my dream),....and see the yet to be created object. Upon waking make a quick sketch & come back to it later.
There are a lot of good questions about dreaming but it is a huge assumption that it is your brain that is dreaming. It is ’ I ‘that is dreaming. The leap of assumption that says it is my brain that is dreaming is pure conjecture. It jumps over our own direct experience in a way that precludes serious investigation.
As a kid I used to have “fever” dreams when I got bad tonsillitis. They were always the same 3 dreams. Never had them again after I got my tonsils removed, until my covid fever. Haven’t had them since.
@froby2378: I had the same exact experience as a kid. My tonsillitis fevers usually hovered around 105. The fever dreams were so horrible and vivid that I was sure they were hallucinations. Haven't had those dreams since (60+ years), but I do think of them now and then. Those fevers sure did a number on the brain.
I have always drempt in color, even though we only had black and white TV's tillI was about 7. When I was young, I had quite a few times when I knew that I was dreaming so I did my favorite thing, and that was to fly, driwft up in the air, it was the most amazing sensation I've ever had.
I remember many of my dreams even over time. Most of my dreams I go on wonderful vacations to other counties, or the next town that has become a park or camps we own. I sometimes go to sleep by trying to go to a camp and redesigning them ( new porch). The other reoccurring dreams are of houses. A few are haunted. I can go inside my dream to change it to move in a new direction.
Thank you for these episodes! Curious about sedative drug effects. Have experienced both hallucinations and apparently very active sleep walking (making meals, sending emails) from Ambien which had never occurred before. Truly felt the drug induced switch in the brain which was quite frightening!
19:00 Of the dreams I remember usually seem to be my subconscious trying tell me something and as a metaphore. Most are obviously so. At least the dreams I remember. It's as if the dream helps me realize emotions I might be ignoring during the day because there isn't time for them during the day. It's like the dream clarifies what I am feeling. I don't agree that dreams have no meaning. It's rare that I have a dream that I remember that has me think, "Where did THAT come from? Or what was THAT about?"
I sometimes have dreams about reading but not being able to do it. I see the text and I know that I am struggling to read it and I become aware that it isn't going to work because it's a dream but it makes me more determined to try. A few times I feel like I succeeded but never remember what it was. I've never had a black and white dream but I grew up with black and white TV.
Mine have incredible detail of faces I never saw and places I never have been. Stories that come full circle . Most are associated with events of the day but other seem to be completely random..
The video talked about people being frozen in place while dreaming, but I have seen someone moving and talking in their sleep. I have found myself reacting in a dream by doing a sudden movement and I find myself waking up and moving at the same time. I have also seen a dog that is moving its legs while sleeping as if it is running but only slightly moving. What is the movement that is taking place if the person is dreaming?
When I was a kid I was frequently unwell for long periods. When ill, I had this recurring dream where I was floating high in the corner of a huge white room looking down at the opposite corner where there was a door. I could sense fearfully that the door was due to open and at the moment it did, I would fall from my vantage point, wake up and vomit. I still hate the sensation of dropping suddenly. Weird.
I had a period of recurring dreams 40 years ago when I was in my mid teens. I ended up have the same dream somewhere between 4 and 6 times. In the dream I would visit various locations in my hometown but it was all set in the future. The dream was always the same, same order, same places. In the dream I was older, I had a beard and was heavier than anyone in my family had ever had a propensity to be. Not overweight, just heavy… my family are all very thin. The details in the dream were solidified in my mind by their repetition. The changes I saw in town were things that were specific and some were highly improbable to occur in a town as small as mine. In time, I moved away, but in the years to come each of the things that I had seen in my dream (that I’d even shared details of with others) began to happen. I would visit there and see them in person. It was astonishing. Now, 40 years on, and there is one last building from my dream that needs to change to complete the entire series of things from those dreams. All of that is strange enough but there is something else… there was this last event that always happened at the end of those dreams - I would find myself standing outside my childhood home at night and I would be looking up into the night sky only to see, from horizon to horizon, thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of alien space craft filling the sky, hovering over our entire planet. They were every imaginable size and shape, some were unbelievably large, easily miles wide or long. Small craft and orbs and of light were swooping down and flying all over. People began coming out of their homes and joining me and watching. It felt like we were just an experiment, and this was our owners deciding this would be the moment they were going to make themselves known, open our tiny little box, and peering in on us. I can’t begin to describe how small I felt or how disorienting it felt. In the dream I become overwhelmed and walk over to a fence next to an alley and sit down… unsure of what comes next… and that is the end of my dream. I now resemble the ‘future me’ I was in that dream, one last building from my dream has to change (again, in ways that seem very unlikely) and these days the reality of the existence of UFOs or UAP are being discussed openly in congressional hearings. It not just woo woo anymore. I have literally DRAWN what this last building looks like after it is altered, like in my dream. I have people who still live there that I've asked to keep me updated should this change happen. If it does actually happen… what does all of it mean? How could I have seen all of this in advance? How many times have I lived this life? Is that what is happening - my life is being recycled over and over and over and somehow the memories are leaking out through this series of dreams, like a warning or something? What if what I saw is actually coming? There were other specific markers in my dream that make me think that this final event happens around July or August of 2026.
You know how the world didn’t end in 2012 or whenever it was supposed to all come crashing down, according to the Mayans, I think? In the same way, I can guarantee you, we’re all gonna still be here, just fine in October 2026. It’s just a dream mate. Moreover, there’s only so many ways that a building could conceivably and physically able to be modified, so that’s what I’m thinking is why you can dream such things before they happen. You and some architect could be thinking “The building should look like this” and you’re both picturing the same alterations. Just some food for thought…
@ A $6 million dollar renovation of a 90 year old condemned grade school was turned into an Arts Center in a town of 9000 people, 60 miles from any population center of note, on the outer edge of a run down desert town / farming community… where gambling and a naval base were the only ‘culture’ this place has ever known. In my dream I was there, I walked through it and saw entire galleries of artwork. I had attended 3rd grade in this school, ours was the last class there before they closed down the school, and in my dream I thought it was just a community arts college - that’s how I explained it to people - not a full blown arts center with a performing arts theater, bar and rotating exhibitions. I’m not an idiot, I’m not naive, when I say the things I saw were improbable, I mean improbable. The last renovated building from my dream currently looks EXACTLY the same as it did 50+ years ago. It is a junk heap. In my dream it is turned into a spectacular high end casino, almost like you’d find in Vegas. The feature I remember being most unique is the awning… an overhang that sticks out so far it completely covers over the wide sidewalk beneath it. That and 12 + foot tall black mirrored windows and mirror finish gold paneling down the entire front facade. It would be the most elaborate, over the top building in that entire town… it would be completely out of place - like the Arts Center is out of place. Improbable means improbable. Just a few years back they demolished an entire row of old buildings next to this building - it’s just a big empty lot there now. But the main building I’m talking about remains. That huge open space would make for some excellent parking if the building I saw in my dream ever comes to pass. And if it does come to pass - July or August 2026 is on the table - and for some reason I can’t yet imagine, I decide to be there.
I dream texts, phone use, and computer chats all the time! But do not recall reading books. I dream in color, dream up poems & art, and have math & chemistry nightmares. I lucid dream and have dreams that predict future happenings or simultaneous occurrences.
Twenty five years ago I had my own small business. I ended at least one day a week with some problem that seemed insurmountable as I went to bed. As I approached my nights rest I would meditate and pray to the creator that I be a grateful and compassionate person in the coming day. Each and every day I awoke to discover a clear and confident path through what seem to be an insurmountable problem the night before. I believe I was applying calm and impetus to my brain’s ability to realign facts and ideas. Anyway, it made every day better!
I once had a dream in which someone I know told me information about someone else who I know who I hadn't seen or talked to in a couple of years including the name of another person who I don't know and had never heard of before. The dream wasn't about anything important and wasn't alarming but it was really vivid, so much so that it woke me up and I couldn't stop thinking about it, I messaged the person that the information was about and told her about it, she couldn't believe that it was a dream and thought that I had been physically talking to someone who knows her and was joking about the dream, the information was 100% correct including the name of the person that I don't know. The people in the dream all live in a different country than I do and I had no contact with any of them for a couple of years prior to this dream, including via social media which I don't have. I have no idea how or why that happened, the information wasn't anything important or relevant to me it was trivial, but how and/or why was it transmitted to me in a dream???
I have dreams about my phone all the time, mostly I can’t type in phone numbers or texts correctly and it’s super annoying. I’ve always had regular lucid dreams and can remember them pretty well
Remembering dreams is very rare for me. Couldn't tell you the color. Everything is extremely vague, like a distant memory. I don't visualize memories. When on the edge of being awake, and asleep, I hear words, randomly strung together. Sometimes I believe them to be profound, but quickly realize they're just random, as I awaken.
The night after seeing this video I dreamed I was trying to phone text with someone and we just couldn't get it to work correctly. I was impressed after seeing the video that yes, I couldn't remember ever using a phone in a dream before. See what you did? Haha. Stop directing my dreaming!!
Another theory as to why the color property of TVs might influence dreams more than reality colorfulness: TV programs are designed to impact emotions way more than everyday life - or at least in terms of density and frequency of events that are otherwise pretty rare. (e.g. most of us rarely saw anyone being shot in real life). This can creates reminiscent patterns in the amygdala, which then feeds reasons to storytelling machinery.
30:45 in the "script" of some of my dreams: (1) used my phone to take pictures (2) woman drew a car on the ground (3) checked the time on an analog clock (4) I *read* a few paragraphs on a handwritten paper in blue ink and an ad with 2 words in yellow and pink (5) had a device inside my head that communicated with a woman's AI voice that also overlayed on my eyesight a health status in red and green figures+letters/numbers similar to Augmented Reality - I don't have any AR or VR device in real life. Am I dreaming of the future? 😂Thank you for your insights and examples, always a pleasure to hear 😉
Hello! Part three: When I did the bulk of my dreaming, they were complete stories with other people in them with first and last names, and they weren't people I knew from real life. I traveled to cities I have never been to. My dreams were very colorful,....sometimes they were neon colored. I was aware of different kinds of sunlight in each dream. The dreams were all different, there were no repeating dreams. I tried to take the many thousands of dreams and fit them into categories. I didn't like the results. Many have underlying depressing content, or are expressions of anger, or feelings I was hoodwinked. I preferred not analyzing them. That is some other person's job. I don't want to destroy their magical quality. I gave some to my therapist,...to read,....she never came up with any ideas, to explain them.
Extremely fascinating lecture. I am 74 born in 1950. I seem to dream sometimes in color and sometimes in black and white (grayish). I cannot say when or why, but sometimes the color is vivid and other times it is drabbish. And speaking of movies and not ducking when the bus is coming toward you, I went to the theater with a girlfriend in 1994 to watch FOREST GUMP. I had never seen the movie nor did I know any of its content. When the Vietnam ambush scene in that movie hit, having been a combat vet with 75th Infantry Hotel Company (71), what I remember was me yelling, "CONTACT FRONT" and diving on the floor, before I even knew what had happened. Damn that Classical Conditioning aspect of the brain. I never got another date with her. Hahaha!
Thank you for your sevice, her loss 😂
That was an amazing read. If that happened.. damn man. Thanks for your service sir.
Gotta love it. If conditioned right, we truly are Dogs of War. Good story!
Thank you for your service, sir. Conditioned responses saved lives. I'd rather this than shell shock or PTSD. I am sure that there is lasting mental stuff. I have not served -- life got in the way. But I appreciate that you were able to share this story with complete strangers and be okay knowing that there are your people out here that support and appreciate you. And I do. Thank you.
I'm 69, never been in combat, my son went into the Marines in '01, he went to war and my Dad died in '04, I suffered with debilitating nightmares riding with my son and watching him die in many bloody horrific ways while I bore no affect. I was waking drenched from head to toe in sweat, and grit my teeth so bad that I chewed 3 off and swallowed two of 'em. This went on for two years and found myself hollering to wake up, scaring the wife. I try like hell to forget them, the hundreds of them, but I'm still haunted by 2 of them.
Thanks for serving, I died with my son over and over. Thank you. Now we need one patriotic Secret Service agent.
amazing episode thank you
I had a dream of the future. It was so vivid . when I awoke, I told my girl friend . The dream was about my brother Pete who at the time was living in Florida. In the dream, I was talking with my brother and another person. We were beside a gas station. I walked to the side of the gas station to look down a road with houses on both sides dark and somewhat messed up. The sky was windy with clouds.There was a lot of tension all around with people coming towards me and I went back to my brother and told him that I had to leave and went to where I would live... a couple of months later, I got a call from my brother Pete. He was in Charleston , South Carolina, Just after hurricane Hugo hit . That’s where I ended up . When my girlfriend came down to visit, I brought her to that gas station, showed her the road , the only way into Sullivan Island and where I was living. I believe we have memories of the past and future
If you haven't had some kind of experience like this then you'll almost certainly dismiss such stories as being the product of confused timelines and/or an overactive imagination. And if you _have_ had some experience like this then you'll almost certainly accept stories such as yours at face value. I've never had a premonition dream before (or not one that I remember, anyway), but I did have, just once, an extended period of deja vu that lasted for about 3-4 hours. It was absolutely wild! I mean, the funny thing with deja vu is that you think "I've dreamt of this _exact_ situation before!" but you can never pinpoint _exactly_ when it was you had the dream, or I can't, anyway. On this one day, though, which was an otherwise completely normal day during which otherwise completely normal things happened, the feeling of deja vu was so constant, and so strong, that I was able to predict, with complete accuracy, the banal events that were about to come. "The driver of that car is going to park on the other side of the road, get out, and go into that house over there" (I had a friend with me). Like I said, nothing remarkable happened whatsoever, but what _was_ remarkable was the _feeling_ that came with _knowing,_ not guessing, not being 99% sure, but _knowing_ what was just about to happen. I can only describe it as peaceful. I didn't even think of going and getting a lotto ticket or something, it was just so _relaxing,_ so _calming,_ knowing that nothing _terrible_ was about to happen! We never notice it, of course, but even when we think we're as chilled as we can be, there must still be a part of us that's subconsciously always worrying about some disaster that might suddenly befall us!
Anyway, as I said, nothing remarkable happened, and, apart from being able to perfectly predict the future, it was a pretty normal day. So, yeah, when you say you dreamed of a time in the future that came perfectly true, well... I have _no problem_ believing you. No problem at all!
Have a great (future) day!
@@simesaidhad several experiences like that one lasted for half-hour another one for an hour really really quite disturbing thought I was hallucinating but everything i did was there including trying to shake it off
@@simesaid It's very possible that you just didn't remember you dreamed it. I had tons of precognitive dreams, since childhood, some really detailed. And déjà-vus as well, when I remember the dream I had. One lately, that I dreamed 40 years ago. I told to a friend that there will appear a poodle... well, it was kind of a poodle, a bit larger. And mostly, people point out the differences. Or that dream when I was in a stadium, watching my team playing vs. a team of another league and a player got the second yellow card (meaning a red card) in the first half. Well, some weeks ago, there was a cup game vs. that team. And the player got a direct red card in the first half. And a friend pointed that out (it was a direct red, not two yellow). Like with human beings, instead of seeing the similarities pointing out the differences.
My precognitave dreams became so common...
In high school, I was having so many dreams about the lunchroom conversations between my friends and I that I began experimenting. I knew what my response should be and what would be said in response. I began saying something different to see if reality would somehow bend back to my precognative
dream. It did not. The future was completely changed. From this, I learned that we are, indeed, the creators of our lives. There is no force compelling a certain future.
I have been a prophetic dreamer all my life. I still struggle to understand how this is possible.
I must be the exception because as my 60s progresses I dream more lucidly.
My dream life is better than my waking life and sometimes I don't want to wake.
Yes I know that feeling
All men are great, in their dreams. -Sigmund Freud
Sleeping is my favorite thing,Dreams are welcomed
Sometimes I wake up and I feel deeply in love with someone I've never met. It lasts for days sometimes....
@@the_kombinatorthat happened to me once. I woke up crying because we were being separated and for the next couple of days, every time I thought about the person, I’d start crying again with the feeling of being heart broken. Wow. It was so trippy and didn’t know anyone or heard of anyone that’s experienced that until your comment so thank you for sharing that.
This Doctor has done his homework with extra credit. Rarely do we see a video that is this accurate. Thanks!
My mum is blind in one eye and almost blind in the other but her vision is always fine in her dreams
*_Interesting. Has she been blind since birth?_*
I had never thought about this before. I suppose if we were blind from birth, we wouldn't.
@@moriel01 no macular degeneration began in her 70s. She's now in her 90s. Sometimes she dreams she has her blind stick with her but she can still see. I think its good she at least sees in her dreams.
That's really sweet. I'm so happy for her.
Basically the brain is what sees. The eyes receive light signals and the brain creates the images in the mind. Everything we see is created within the brain. Close your eyes and think of a specific car... an image of that car will appear but you won't see the colour because light signals aren't coming through closed eyes
Has never failed to blow me away! Dr. Eagleman has given me more ponder than any other human I "know."
There are not a long list of TH-cam videos which have given me a PERFECT puzzle piece which is so revealing, so predictive and explanatory...That I immediately place it front and center as the most credible, elegant and helpful idea which explains the world.
This is certainly one.
I guess you never had one of those dreams where you are being chased and you can't get away from that person or you try to beat them up and it's like being underwater you can't get that actual punch in ... Lol
*_Had those when I was a kid, hehe_*
Sure we had them. When I was a kid I tried to fly away like swimming towards the sky and those who were after me tried to grab my legs. 😄
You had me at “like a meat robot that’s been switched off” 😂
I’ve had prophetic dreams that are so real and that have come to fruition that my friends and family members have said, “Please don’t dream about me.”
This information is only useful to me if most of your dreams come true. Because if you’re just counting the hits and ignoring the misses, then it’s nothing more than simply coincidence.
@@teresaamanfu7408 Not enitrely true. If he dreams of a person only occur before a prophecy that come true. Maybe it's something you never dream about otheriwse. Fi a friend, object,..
...there's a difference between messages and just dreams, messages, meant for me and so I'm able to interpret them. Three times the FA Cup results have been revealed to me, no other event, just that one football competition. The first two dreams going not for my team, so no wish dream there. The last dream had too many details that seemed to involve the national team. I dreamt of three winners of one event in 30 years, and only these dreams. Not random.
I don't dream in B&W but the colors are really washed out, like watercolor, or even more bland. But then, I'm a musician and have always been very sound oriented, nevertheless, my dreams are always completely mute, since I can remember. There''s dialogue but no sound, no music, no drone sound..... nada. Again, Dr. Eagleman blowing my mind. Thanks for sharing .
I always watch these dream explanation videos to see if I could find some answers for my dream experiences and I never do. As a child, I would dream all of the time and I would remember so many of them, still do, but because, of that I think, I developed an awareness that I was dreaming. When I would have scary dreams, I was able to wake myself up. As a teenager, I had a couple of sleep walk experiences and the dreams continued. As an adult, I was experiencing sleep paralysis on a regular basis and they were increasing in frequency. I was told that what I was experiencing were night terrors and that it was not normal because an adult rarely experiences this and that it was more common in children. They could not understand what the reasons were and they tried to give me medication that was meant to “help” me achieve normal sleep. I refused and I stopped asking doctors . Meanwhile, through my 20s and my 30s, the night terrors were getting worse but weirdly I was becoming even more aware while in my dreams and now, not only was I able to wake myself up from the dream, but I realized that I didn’t have to wake up, instead I could fly away from a dangerous situation. The it took a while but in the last 5 years about, I can count the amt of night terrors I’ve had on a hand and I rarely have “silly” dreams. I still remember many of my dreams and I have definitely read in one, I had a dream I was using a phone for the first time just recently and I dream about having convos with relatives in their apt and they’d seem so real. Oh… and now, I’m in flight mode whenever I get the chance. Those dreams are the best. I’ve seen places so beautiful and alien but they were so real. I will never understand how my brain would create landscapes like the ones I’ve seen while flying. Then the dreams that I can move things with my thoughts and waking up feeling like a super hero. I know for a fact that there is way more to and about dreams than we are being told. I don’t believe that all of my dreams were visualized or created by the brain. I don’t understand how my brain could just create total strangers and places I’ve never met or seen. Or I could feel the air and pressure if I fly too fast. I think that dreams are meant to awaken some hidden, lost powers and skills that have been lost through time while at the same time, they also allow us to experience consciousness somewhere that we aren’t bound by the the laws of physics. If I’ve gotten to this point, I’m even more excited to see how this may evolve as I get older .
Wow, I thought I was rare in interactive dreaming.
Yes because you really traveled with your astral body. I searched my whole life to explain my psychic dreams. I had the vision that equaled an event that turned out to be a full reenactment. Now I know this to be called astral projection or near death experience... all the same. The lies science tells. Please look up Daskalos, Rudolph Steiner, Jesus, Bob Monroe if you want the truth...✌️
Inner Cosmos... really one of the best podcasts out there.
I’m 77 now and have always been a prolific dreamer. When I was young I had many dreams about floating and being afraid that I might fall, but I can’t remember the last time I dreamed about it. Also, I used to dream about being chased and not being able to run fast enough. I don’t have that dream anymore. I used to have very science fiction dreams. And some of them recurred many many times. Some of these are still very prominent in my memory. The floating dreams I think many or most people have and so dreams seem to be caused by physical things going on in you, like being paralyzed when you are asleep. I had a bought of severe depression when I was 20 yrs old. During that time I had very bloody and violent dreams. During this time I learned how to control my dreams , the visual and outcome for me. When I was 5 or6 I had a dream about being in a tornado which caused me to be really frightened. When I woke up or maybe later I used my pastels to draw/ paint a picture of the landscape in my dream. The picture was very colorful with dead black trees and the atmosphere was all red and blue. I was very afraid of tornadoes 🌪️. Sometimes the dreams were wonderful and I loved them. I always feel disappointed when I wake up and they are over.
I loved your presentation and want to listen to your other episodes. Thanks
Me either. I had many science fiction stories during the nights. I travel trough space.... Fights etc....
I can fly of course.
If I am tried I am dreaming with seaside..... When I feel my life goes great I often dream I go for running and it goes well.
Had a dream that Prince approached me and said....so ...I heard you're a big fan ....then on same night...dreamed that I was telling my best friend about that great dream on meeting Prince....one my favorite dreams ever....
I look forward to dreams. Practice waking slowly to recall as much as possible. I have recently dreamt I was dreaming in the dream, woke, discussed it, then woke in my bed. Outrageous crazy! Good stuff! Levels of consciousness, or connecting to it? Fascinating
Amazing episode. I have been using VR for the last 8 months daily, and I have never seen a resemblance of such in my dreams, albeit I rarely dream or remember them.
I first encountered Dr Eagleman on his documentary episodes "the brain with Dr David Eagleman" - watch it if you havent its mind blowing.
The brain may be good at telling stories - and his brain certainly is!
Phenomenal educator ❤
Hello! Part four: During the 43 years of amazing dreams, I could have complex ones, during a cat-nap. Maybe I'd be sleep for 30 minutes or less, and I went to wild and faraway places. Most times I had them closer to when I was awakening. I had a few amazing "Lucid Dreams", where I saw myself lying in my bed, I was floating over myself,...looking down. I felt as if my eyes were open, yet I was dreaming at the same time. I have had many that were like De-ja-vu,....dreams, feeling I'd been there, somewhere, before. I've had a few dreams where I awoke, and I was paralyzed. I couldn't make myself move, or talk, or even grunt. IN REAL LIFE,....I survived a heart attack,....I live a few blocks from my hospital,.....and I was admitted to the heart hospital, & within a day of my heart attack symptoms. 24 hours later I was having open heart, double by-pass, surgery. It WAS extremely traumatic. I had tons of dreams, in the hours before the surgery,.....of course I was extremely worried I might die on the operating table. I was 47 at the time,.....and thank god,.....it has been 20 years later, and I'm still here,....though I have had many stents installed, along the way. I can't believe I am 70. Almost all my friends have already died,.....and I feel I am all alone, so often. I never made new friends with younger people. I had my core group of friends,.....we all went to college together, they lived in my town, some very close by.
It is your soul, and it is infinite.
I have had dream inside dream many times. It was very interesting.
Even more fun was when I knew I was dreaming, but it didn't wake me up. I just kept going and I could dictate the outcome of the dream. I could do whatever I wanted. It was fun.
I just watched this channel's video on depression. Instant subscription. Thanks for such great content.
I love that the title of so many of your videos start with “why?” or “what?” I feel like I’m programmed to be a “questioner” so these videos are really satisfying , scratching an itch-ish😊
I remember a series of dreams where I was solving quadratic equations. I woke up and wrote those down and then solved them; I got the same result awake as I remember getting in my sleep.
We dream because the brain wont shut up. Lol
When I was little I dreamed in black and white and we had a black and white TV. When I was about 12 years old we got a color TV and by the time I was in college at age 17, I was dreaming mostly in color. At 69 I always dream in color. I have thought that my dreams were related to the TV ever since I began to dream in color. Part of this is that my parents said that they had always dreamed in black and white. My belief was that we must have gotten the color TV when I was young enough to switch to color but my parents were too old for their brains to make the switch. I remember asking them and both made an interesting remark that before they had TV they thought they dreamed in color but when they saw TV in black and white they both began dreaming in black and white. I wish they were still alive to explore this further with them because we loved thinking about things like this.
Looks like someone wants attention! Go write a book. Nobody will read it because Nobody could make it through your dumb long reply😂
Because we are boring and they need some excitement. "Finaly. He's asleep. Lets party."
Love your channel. Fascinating theories. I'm 64. I've been dreaming for a long time. I have a theory why we dream what we dream based on my memories of past dreams. Most you forget but some you don't. I think dreams are combinations of memories that are created daily throughout your life's experiences but are also memories of imaginary scenario's that you create an your mind about your realife experience's. I think it's a way for your brain to purge memories. To deal with a past or upcoming reality that you're stressed over.
I think you're on the right track, but there's more to it
I have the experience that you can train to remember your dreams by constantly trying to remember when you awaken. I also noticed that doing so, the dreams became more intense. E.g. more violent.
So if of recording and reviewing your dreams become an option, this increasing intensity can become a side effect.
Interesting video and field of science by the way. Thumbs up.
Wonderfully clear articulation and expression by narrator
I just remembered I read two of your books. Fascinating !
I really appreciated the analogy of the "brain map". Somewhere in life, I came across the idea that, just like the growth of any physical map, as we consciously learn and prioritize new concepts and associate them with, evaluate and reevaluate what we experience, our brain is making new paths within itself and has to repeat certain routes in order to make them a permanent installation. What we see in dreams may just be part a means to physically produce or reproduce synaptic pathways not previously well established .
I have a severe mental illness, and sometimes, the line between reality and my dreams gets blurred. It can be VERY confusing!
Sometimes, when my dreamscape is really intense, I will wake up with big emotions of sadness, loss and mourning about leaving a world behind that I feel I belong in... it also causes a sort of amnesia about this reality and it takes me a while before I am reoriented in myself and my life here. This can induce panic and anxiety.
I wish I could have my brain fixed and not be so confused anymore.
If you don’t mind, do you know the diagnosis of your illness? What is it because I experience the same exact thing! I often have to check and look for signs to figure out if something happened in my dreams or reality . Or an event will feel like a memory from like a few days ago and then it’ll suddenly hit me that it never happened at least in reality
This was startlingly informative in unexpected ways-I literally laughed when he said that someone had a theory about threats and dreams. I have never had a single dream of being chased or any such thing ever. I don’t ever have threat dreams, never any appearing naked, none of those. I rarely do have sex dreams but they are fragmentary and very rare. When he mentioned aggressive dreams or aggression in dreams, I have never even had a single dream ever that even slightly felt that way. So that was the most absolutely astounding and astonishing thing to hear that people report dreams like that. 😮 But I am extremely high in psychological traits agreeableness 95th and openness 99th percentile. 🤷♀️🤔 which might be related.
I could see dreams being evolutionarily advantageous because they help emotionally and mentally prepare you for potential situations. Almost like exposure therapy. So it produces the craziest, sometimes scary potential situations so that you’re better equipped to handle them while awake. Similar to how it’s been proven that athletes who visualize themselves winning a race end up performing better, because they visualized it beforehand.
I think this in conjunction with dreams also being symbolic makes a lot of sense.
Just my hypothesis and probably just one aspect of why dreaming exists. There are probably multiple explanations, not just one solid explanation.
You are AMAZING. Congratulations. Please, let know when you are coming over Finland 👏
I listen to podcasts during sleep and they definitely cause related dreams. I was in Middle Earth recently during a dream and it was wild.
That is totally badass😂
Lucid dreaming is not easy. While dreaming, it is not much hard to realize I am in dream, but continuing the dream with still knowing that I am in the middle of dreaming is so hard. I used to remember well what I dreamed and has been journaling my dream so long. I feel like the experiences in dream also could be good resources for me anyways, so that's the reason why i am quite interested in this subject. The colors or sounds i has experienced in dreams are quite valuable for me as much as i had gotten in real life.
Fantastic content and communication skill.
If you fall asleep with the lights on or have outside light coming through the windows you are more than likely to see colours in your dreams. Possibly could be light signals are somehow penetrating the eyes
Excellent vidéo !
A lot of very interesting explanations, I got a lot of pleasure listening
Thank you
Outstanding presentation 😊😊
I don't dream very often but when I do it's fucking EPIC, it's like a metaphysical purge and your brain gets a reboot and you feel like you've actually slept...
I’m a 56 yo woman…when I was a teen into my 20’s I adored B&W movies & old cinema - it was really all I would watch. I also studied french for 8 years during that time. Interestingly when I began dreaming in french, it was only ever in B&W while all of my native English dreams remained in vivid color. That has always amazed and puzzled me - I’ve just assumed it was because I was never fluent until I moved to France later in life and at the time my brain only had ‘RAM’ to process either a 2nd language or color but not both! Hahaha
I'm working on a book on dreaming. This video will help so much! Thank you!!
When I dream of classmates from childhood, they are still children, but while I’m interacting with them (as my adult self) they is no sense that something is amiss in our age differences.
Thru' the episode David really lived in a dreamland and he has such dreamy eyes.
You are amazing. Great presentation
Extremely well explained, thank you.
37:31 what about before photos and such? How'd they dream then??
I'm experiencing an awakening!!!!
You're not alone ❤
Subscribed immediately. So cool
First time seeing any of your content and learning a good bit. I can recall dreams pretty much any time I am awaken. I can go back to sleep as long as it's less than 5 minutes and "finish" and/or continue a dream. I can recite what happened in the dream as long as I speak it after I awaken and before other aspects get introduced. I do loose those details after 15 minutes or so. My son has narcolepsy and Doctors have said that I may have some that was left un-diagnosed through the years. My son's condition was bad enough that he fell asleep in classes when he was younger some 20 years ago. Fortunately, I have never had any similar issues but rather do have odd sleep patterns sometimes sleeping as much as 12 or 14 hours without problems. #subscribed
The example of being at work...or school without clothes has always been my most common unpleasant dream. When I was younger, the school scenario was much more frequent but now they mostly involve work, for obvious reasons. I have always wondered if this was common. Anyone?
I think this is a fairly common dream - perhaps it says something about wanting to be seen for your genuine self. Everyone sees thremselves and others wearing their defensive masks. We are all fearful of revealing our true self to the world. This is part of the "human condition," it seems.
I have found that the specific scenerio of a dream is not relevant. What is relevant are the *emotions* generated by the dream. For example, in one dream I am naked, but it is perfectly normal in that unverse and it generates no emotion. If there is negative emotion, is ihe emotion embarassment, fear, guilt, or something else. The biggest fear in going to school is that you forgot something. You forget a book, or you forget a homework assignment. The dream of being without clothes may be simply the embodyment of the emotion of "having forgotten something". In this case - your clothes.
I’ve had a dream about a person and at the time of my dreams I had never met them but end up a year later meet them . I didn’t talk to them so I just seen them , thought it would be weird .
When I was pregnant with my first, one night I dream a little girl standing next to my bed and say' Mammie I get cold' few days later I have a miscarriage and it was a little girl. With every other 3 pregnancy I dreamed if it is a girl or boy. I also dreamed over and over of places and years later I saw this places is real. I still wondering if it is only accidently that the dreams come thru.
I keep hearing that dreams only exist during rem sleep, this isn't how my brain works, if i can fall into a long detailed dream then wake up 5 mins after i lay my head down then i clealy dream without going into rem.
he didn’t say they happen ONLY during rem. he said a majority of them do 👍
Yeah.. calm down mate.. go back to sleep
I totally agree with you.
What an absolute shower of shit What they tell us.
Ever fall back into one of several realities?
Even if you haven't been there in years, you come back to each reality in time and it's like you never left.
Omg this
I understand that people who are blind also have REM sleep. I’m interested because I’m blind from birth totally. Only, I never see any visuals because there are no visuals for me to see. I guess my visual cortex is being used for tactile stimuli any thoughts?
That's exactly right: The circuitry for dreaming is ancient, and you still have activity going into your occipital lobe every 90 minutes or so during the night. If you're interested in more about this topic, you can find more in the book Livewired.
I always wondered if I’m experiencing something that other people do as well. If I rub my eyes, I get a series of geographical shapes a lot of trapezoids lines that never ever makes sense to me, especially when I consider that during an accident I had in 2016. I was given a high dose of ketamine because my foot had been ripped off at the ankle. The geographic shapes that I typically see if I rub my eyes was exactly what I felt when I was going under with the Ketamine… way more intense.. but I remember being in a zone where I wasn’t conscious, but I could still think and I was telling myself “Did I just die? .. am I dead.? And a very real sense of fear and fright..
I mostly remember my dreams all day* ...
If I remember them when I wake up,
I tend to easily remember them for ages afterwards*
If I _don't_ recall a dream when I first wake up, then the dream's details usually doesn't emerge later.
I have had a sleep EEG which proved that in the deepest of sleeps, I can _hear_ what's going on within the room, plus nearby sounds or conversations going on outside the room where I'm sleeping.
The 'sleep technician' said she was amazed at the level of sleep I had had for just twenty minutes _on less than half the dose of the caplet given to induce the necessary sleep_ for the test, (following the application of multiple sensors glued to my scalp!)
I was also sleepy for the rest of that day, and it was as if I had had an epileptic seizure - which I had experienced frequently since I was six years old, after having a wooden chair fall from its stacked position on a table near where I was sitting in the floor, in Primary School.
(I also had Meningitis when I was _seven_ years old, but I don't recall dreams from when I was asleep when I had that illness).
My dreams have never given me images of falling, or of slipping on randomly positioned areas, my dreams have always appeared as 'real life' albeit in odd locations, such as either being where I grew up, or in places I have never been, and yet recognise as a dwelling or as a 'real place' ... I have never dreamed of falling, or chasing, or being chased, or of friends or family within my field of vision. I am aware of people I know, but I don't see them. I speak to them. Very rarely I have dreamed a friend was a famius person. Mostly I dream I am walking...but in waking life, I use a wheelchair now to get anywhere. I dont dream about driving, or riding a bicycle, or swimming and I _don't_ do those activities in waking real life. I did used to ride horses but I dont remember horseriding in my dreams, sadly.
I wouldn't describe my dreams as "being in colour"!! I describe my dreams as being real life...and I never describe my real waking life as living life "in colour".
I don't recall ever having dreamed un black and white, and I am 71 now, and never saw a television until I was six years old, listening to the radio only.
My Mum took me to the doctor when I was younger than six, worried by my dreams and / or made up stories... The doctor just told her that I had an active imagination and would probably become an author when I grew up... (I'm not sure Mum was calmed by the notion!)
I write poems and rhymes, but have never written a book. I wish I had! If I did, it might be either an autobiography, or a work of fiction... It might ( _now_ ) even have a title, of sorts...to do with dreams!!
I dont worry that my dreams are understood, or whether or not they can be determined as having meaning.
I either dream.p, or not, enjoy them, or not, and just live my life with my imagining brain "just doing its stuff"!!
It is _not so unusual_ to dream 'lucid dreams' ...
I've done it off and on for as long as I can remember...
Doesnt everyone?! 🤔🏴❤️🇬🇧🙂🖖
I had a dream where I was trying to take a photo on my phone but couldn’t do it, it was so frustrating because the view was gorgeous
This means there is going to be a celebration of which you are supposed to be a part of it but due to some circumstances, you wouldn't be there.
A phone in a dream?! 😮
I have Parkinson’s disease, and I recently switched from taking pills to using a subcutaneous pump. This change has helped stabilize my dopamine levels. For the first time in four years, I can get six or seven hours of uninterrupted sleep. Before the pump, my sleep was so fragmented that I couldn’t remember my dreams. Now, with the pump, my "normal" dreams have returned, and I wake up feeling refreshed. However, if my pump fails during the night-usually due to a kink or a leak-my sweet dreams can quickly turn into nightmares, and I struggle to wake up.
Thank you Dr Eagleman. I have been experimenting with something new about my dreams in the past couple weeks. Everytime I sleep with my earphones in, listening to a book or classical music, I do not dreams. Or if I have a dream , it is something very light, nothing I can remember when I wake up. I don't know if anyone ever had that experience.
This video mesmerized me thank you for the content and info. Around min 40-42, was he describing lucid or vivid dreamers. I can control my dreams once I know I’m dreaming and stay in the dream😴😴. Can’t wait for the next vid
Antidepressants increase my dreams and nightmares. Same as anti seizure medication increased my nightmares and seizures. Psilocybin has helped but it's still in the research stage. That is pushing me to finish my degree so I can partake in the research and study of the impacts of medication and plant medicine on the brain. Took decades of trauma to get me here. But I am pushing through to get into psychology, physics, and neuroscience to help make sense of it all. Path to my degree starts in a couple months. See you on the other side.....
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. - Richard W Jennings, author of Orwell's Luck (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2000).
how do these concepts relate to nightmares, especially in children?
I enjoyed the episode about dreams. I would like to know how and why some people but not but not all people sleep walk and why do most people not get injured. Also what should we do if you see someone sleep walking.?????????
Once I was in the kitchen late at night reading a magazine. My brother came in and went over to the kitchen counter and made a peanut butter sandwich. He left the sandwich on the counter and returned to bed. The next day he did not remember it. Was he sleep walking??
See another experience and question further down.
Well, interesting, all the information is there. Now putting it together in a way that makes the most sense. It seems like if we use a ternary system we can certainly get a intuitive understanding of the process of most dreams.
I don't buy that we don't have access to our memories while we're dreaming. In fact often times, it's me actually retrieving a memory that pulls me out of the realism of the dream. One moment I'm picking my mom up from her orange stand in Florida like I do every Saturday. The next I have a very vivid memory or her laying in casket and everything followed. The best/worst part is knowing you're in a dream. The best/worst part is finding the door and deciding whether or not to use the key.
I think he meant those scenes created in dreams don’t always get stored in the long term memory
Sometimes I'm able to realize I'm dreaming in my dream. One way to tell is to look at something then look away then look back at it and it will be different and then you will know you're dreaming. One of my favorite things to do in a dream is to fly.
I’m 61 and sometimes I do have a black and white only dream. Also when I was a child I used to have uncomfortable dreams such as finding myself naked in the middle of the crowded street I learnt to recognise this in the middle of my dreaming sleep state and either wake myself up or to change the narrative of my uncomfortable or scary dreams.
I’m convinced dreaming allows me to access my existences in parallel universes to solve especially difficult problems encountered in this universe, and visa versa.
Dr. Eagleman, thank you for this very interesting podcast. I always wondered why I had such a hard time using my phone while dreaming. Just last night, I dreamt that I was listening to the radio and heard a song that I really liked. I tried to pull up an app on my phone called “Shazam” that helps determine the names of songs by just listening for a few seconds; however, time after time, I couldn’t even type the word “Shazam” on my phone. After what seemed like a couple of minutes of failed attempts, someone on the phone said hello. In my dream, I recognized that I must have dialed a number in error, apologized, and quickly hung up. But after I hung up, I sensed that I recognized the voice on the other end. It was an old boss named “Shahram” who I worked for 20 years ago and had not spoken to since 2005. How my mind came up with this misdial scenario, I have no idea! Hahaha
Hello! Avid dreamer here. Beginning in high school, in 1969, I began journaling my dreams. I had crazy complex dreams. So crazy, that I felt compelled to write them down. I have a massive collection of highly detailed dreams. Some people can't remember their's, or they are so vague, they aren't worth writing down. I was lucky to have created a life style for myself, where I had the time to write them down. I worked in the Arts and my wake up schedule was always relaxed. If I don't have the time, I write a kind of short hand version. Before computers and word processing,....I scribbled them down, in note pads. After I had my computer,....combined with my crazy good skills as a fast typist, I can write them up quite quickly and the auto-correct, fixes any mistakes. I type fast and don't worry about the typos. I have a formatted dream journal,....where I can plug in the time, the day, and a quick blurb,.....I write enough that I can go back later and fill in the details. I am strict with myself, and don't make up stuff, if I can't remember it. I also, make drawings of weird dream objects and dream invented things.
This is very interesting. I wonder what scientists equipped with an AI could do with a compilation like this.
A lot of inventors do that.
@@nomofomo3995 I was a sculptor, and created one of a kind, furniture-like things. I'd have dreams about ones not yet created. I'd be walking through a room ( in my dream),....and see the yet to be created object. Upon waking make a quick sketch & come back to it later.
There are a lot of good questions about dreaming but it is a huge assumption that it is your brain that is dreaming. It is ’ I ‘that is dreaming. The leap of assumption that says it is my brain that is dreaming is pure conjecture. It jumps over our own direct experience in a way that precludes serious investigation.
As a kid I used to have “fever” dreams when I got bad tonsillitis. They were always the same 3 dreams. Never had them again after I got my tonsils removed, until my covid fever. Haven’t had them since.
@froby2378: I had the same exact experience as a kid. My tonsillitis fevers usually hovered around 105. The fever dreams were so horrible and vivid that I was sure they were hallucinations. Haven't had those dreams since (60+ years), but I do think of them now and then. Those fevers sure did a number on the brain.
I have always drempt in color, even though we only had black and white TV's tillI was about 7. When I was young, I had quite a few times when I knew that I was dreaming so I did my favorite thing, and that was to fly, driwft up in the air, it was the most amazing sensation I've ever had.
I remember many of my dreams even over time. Most of my dreams I go on wonderful vacations to other counties, or the next town that has become a park or camps we own. I sometimes go to sleep by trying to go to a camp and redesigning them ( new porch). The other reoccurring dreams are of houses. A few are haunted. I can go inside my dream to change it to move in a new direction.
The Defensive Activation Theory. I like it, it answers allot. Like a computer network pinging itself to maintain connectivity and reduced latency.
Thank you for these episodes! Curious about sedative drug effects. Have experienced both hallucinations and apparently very active sleep walking (making meals, sending emails) from Ambien which had never occurred before. Truly felt the drug induced switch in the brain which was quite frightening!
It feels like I don't dream when I take Ambien.
19:00 Of the dreams I remember usually seem to be my subconscious trying tell me something and as a metaphore. Most are obviously so. At least the dreams I remember. It's as if the dream helps me realize emotions I might be ignoring during the day because there isn't time for them during the day. It's like the dream clarifies what I am feeling. I don't agree that dreams have no meaning. It's rare that I have a dream that I remember that has me think, "Where did THAT come from? Or what was THAT about?"
How awful it must be to go blind ,your memories and past dreams must happen syill ? Waking up from them into darkness must break your heart
They just see while they sleep. It's just like you falling asleep and not being able to see your dark room. You are fine with your eyes closed right?
@@carissafisher7514 But sleeping in a dark room isn't comparable to living in a dark room ?
12:15 I’m curious about your thoughts on the dreams of people with Aphantasia, who I believe don’t see anything in their dreams.
I sometimes have dreams about reading but not being able to do it. I see the text and I know that I am struggling to read it and I become aware that it isn't going to work because it's a dream but it makes me more determined to try. A few times I feel like I succeeded but never remember what it was. I've never had a black and white dream but I grew up with black and white TV.
Mine have incredible detail of faces I never saw and places I never have been. Stories that come full circle . Most are associated with events of the day but other seem to be completely random..
The video talked about people being frozen in place while dreaming, but I have seen someone moving and talking in their sleep. I have found myself reacting in a dream by doing a sudden movement and I find myself waking up and moving at the same time. I have also seen a dog that is moving its legs while sleeping as if it is running but only slightly moving. What is the movement that is taking place if the person is dreaming?
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I've had dreams I'll never forget, dreams I finished decades later and dreams for months then no dreams at all.
When I was a kid I was frequently unwell for long periods. When ill, I had this recurring dream where I was floating high in the corner of a huge white room looking down at the opposite corner where there was a door. I could sense fearfully that the door was due to open and at the moment it did, I would fall from my vantage point, wake up and vomit. I still hate the sensation of dropping suddenly. Weird.
I had a period of recurring dreams 40 years ago when I was in my mid teens. I ended up have the same dream somewhere between 4 and 6 times. In the dream I would visit various locations in my hometown but it was all set in the future. The dream was always the same, same order, same places. In the dream I was older, I had a beard and was heavier than anyone in my family had ever had a propensity to be. Not overweight, just heavy… my family are all very thin.
The details in the dream were solidified in my mind by their repetition. The changes I saw in town were things that were specific and some were highly improbable to occur in a town as small as mine. In time, I moved away, but in the years to come each of the things that I had seen in my dream (that I’d even shared details of with others) began to happen. I would visit there and see them in person. It was astonishing. Now, 40 years on, and there is one last building from my dream that needs to change to complete the entire series of things from those dreams. All of that is strange enough but there is something else… there was this last event that always happened at the end of those dreams - I would find myself standing outside my childhood home at night and I would be looking up into the night sky only to see, from horizon to horizon, thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of alien space craft filling the sky, hovering over our entire planet. They were every imaginable size and shape, some were unbelievably large, easily miles wide or long. Small craft and orbs and of light were swooping down and flying all over. People began coming out of their homes and joining me and watching. It felt like we were just an experiment, and this was our owners deciding this would be the moment they were going to make themselves known, open our tiny little box, and peering in on us. I can’t begin to describe how small I felt or how disorienting it felt.
In the dream I become overwhelmed and walk over to a fence next to an alley and sit down… unsure of what comes next… and that is the end of my dream.
I now resemble the ‘future me’ I was in that dream, one last building from my dream has to change (again, in ways that seem very unlikely) and these days the reality of the existence of UFOs or UAP are being discussed openly in congressional hearings. It not just woo woo anymore.
I have literally DRAWN what this last building looks like after it is altered, like in my dream. I have people who still live there that I've asked to keep me updated should this change happen. If it does actually happen… what does all of it mean? How could I have seen all of this in advance? How many times have I lived this life? Is that what is happening - my life is being recycled over and over and over and somehow the memories are leaking out through this series of dreams, like a warning or something? What if what I saw is actually coming? There were other specific markers in my dream that make me think that this final event happens around July or August of 2026.
You know how the world didn’t end in 2012 or whenever it was supposed to all come crashing down, according to the Mayans, I think? In the same way, I can guarantee you, we’re all gonna still be here, just fine in October 2026. It’s just a dream mate. Moreover, there’s only so many ways that a building could conceivably and physically able to be modified, so that’s what I’m thinking is why you can dream such things before they happen. You and some architect could be thinking “The building should look like this” and you’re both picturing the same alterations.
Just some food for thought…
@ A $6 million dollar renovation of a 90 year old condemned grade school was turned into an Arts Center in a town of 9000 people, 60 miles from any population center of note, on the outer edge of a run down desert town / farming community… where gambling and a naval base were the only ‘culture’ this place has ever known. In my dream I was there, I walked through it and saw entire galleries of artwork. I had attended 3rd grade in this school, ours was the last class there before they closed down the school, and in my dream I thought it was just a community arts college - that’s how I explained it to people - not a full blown arts center with a performing arts theater, bar and rotating exhibitions.
I’m not an idiot, I’m not naive, when I say the things I saw were improbable, I mean improbable. The last renovated building from my dream currently looks EXACTLY the same as it did 50+ years ago. It is a junk heap. In my dream it is turned into a spectacular high end casino, almost like you’d find in Vegas. The feature I remember being most unique is the awning… an overhang that sticks out so far it completely covers over the wide sidewalk beneath it. That and 12 + foot tall black mirrored windows and mirror finish gold paneling down the entire front facade. It would be the most elaborate, over the top building in that entire town… it would be completely out of place - like the Arts Center is out of place.
Improbable means improbable.
Just a few years back they demolished an entire row of old buildings next to this building - it’s just a big empty lot there now. But the main building I’m talking about remains. That huge open space would make for some excellent parking if the building I saw in my dream ever comes to pass.
And if it does come to pass - July or August 2026 is on the table - and for some reason I can’t yet imagine, I decide to be there.
I dream texts, phone use, and computer chats all the time! But do not recall reading books. I dream in color, dream up poems & art, and have math & chemistry nightmares. I lucid dream and have dreams that predict future happenings or simultaneous occurrences.
Twenty five years ago I had my own small business. I ended at least one day a week with some problem that seemed insurmountable as I went to bed. As I approached my nights rest I would meditate and pray to the creator that I be a grateful and compassionate person in the coming day. Each and every day I awoke to discover a clear and confident path through what seem to be an insurmountable problem the night before. I believe I was applying calm and impetus to my brain’s ability to realign facts and ideas. Anyway, it made every day better!
I once had a dream in which someone I know told me information about someone else who I know who I hadn't seen or talked to in a couple of years including the name of another person who I don't know and had never heard of before. The dream wasn't about anything important and wasn't alarming but it was really vivid, so much so that it woke me up and I couldn't stop thinking about it, I messaged the person that the information was about and told her about it, she couldn't believe that it was a dream and thought that I had been physically talking to someone who knows her and was joking about the dream, the information was 100% correct including the name of the person that I don't know. The people in the dream all live in a different country than I do and I had no contact with any of them for a couple of years prior to this dream, including via social media which I don't have. I have no idea how or why that happened, the information wasn't anything important or relevant to me it was trivial, but how and/or why was it transmitted to me in a dream???
I have dreams about my phone all the time, mostly I can’t type in phone numbers or texts correctly and it’s super annoying.
I’ve always had regular lucid dreams and can remember them pretty well
Remembering dreams is very rare for me.
Couldn't tell you the color. Everything is extremely vague, like a distant memory.
I don't visualize memories.
When on the edge of being awake, and asleep, I hear words, randomly strung together. Sometimes I believe them to be profound, but quickly realize they're just random, as I awaken.
The night after seeing this video I dreamed I was trying to phone text with someone and we just couldn't get it to work correctly. I was impressed after seeing the video that yes, I couldn't remember ever using a phone in a dream before. See what you did? Haha.
Stop directing my dreaming!!
Another theory as to why the color property of TVs might influence dreams more than reality colorfulness: TV programs are designed to impact emotions way more than everyday life - or at least in terms of density and frequency of events that are otherwise pretty rare. (e.g. most of us rarely saw anyone being shot in real life). This can creates reminiscent patterns in the amygdala, which then feeds reasons to storytelling machinery.
30:45 in the "script" of some of my dreams: (1) used my phone to take pictures (2) woman drew a car on the ground (3) checked the time on an analog clock (4) I *read* a few paragraphs on a handwritten paper in blue ink and an ad with 2 words in yellow and pink (5) had a device inside my head that communicated with a woman's AI voice that also overlayed on my eyesight a health status in red and green figures+letters/numbers similar to Augmented Reality - I don't have any AR or VR device in real life. Am I dreaming of the future? 😂Thank you for your insights and examples, always a pleasure to hear 😉
it works different for me, some of my dreams are permanently embedded in my memory especially the nicest dreams I've ever had....
I'd like to see some research on any shared pathways between dreaming and the effects of tryptamine psychedelics.
Hello! Part three: When I did the bulk of my dreaming, they were complete stories with other people in them with first and last names, and they weren't people I knew from real life. I traveled to cities I have never been to. My dreams were very colorful,....sometimes they were neon colored. I was aware of different kinds of sunlight in each dream. The dreams were all different, there were no repeating dreams. I tried to take the many thousands of dreams and fit them into categories. I didn't like the results. Many have underlying depressing content, or are expressions of anger, or feelings I was hoodwinked. I preferred not analyzing them. That is some other person's job. I don't want to destroy their magical quality. I gave some to my therapist,...to read,....she never came up with any ideas, to explain them.