The weird part about dreams for me is how you can just sort of 'know' some things. Like, it doesn't have to be related to anything in the real world. You could imagine that children were originally cats and turned into humans as they grew up, and your mind would just accept that as a fact. It really makes me wonder how many things we just make up and our mind just doesn't question them.
@@themouseryKilling the imagination kills individualistic free thought which in turn gives the collective thought process more importance as a society. You are your own world and experience things differently from every other person but when we experience any phenomena outside whats considered the norm often we will all experience it differently because everyone’s imagination is at different levels. We need to accapt that we shouldn’t redicule free thought to the point that censors people from thinking about things that are harmless. Instead we should foster a world of free thinking where we can use our imagination and start to use the tools and formulas we have at our disposal as a civilization to create a better world for ourselves and the entirety of Earth.
yeah i once woke up and thought my tortoise had slid out of his shell and was about to go downstairs to help him get back in because i had a dream about it, after a bit i realised thats not even possible because their shell is literally a part of them on another occasion I had a dream where my friend was just asleep on my floor, woke me up, and then got up and said I'm going home and left, then I fell asleep again, when I woke up I just accepted that had happened when they hadn't even visited and it took me a while to realize none of that happened weird thing is i dont have lucid dreams either, my dreams are very distant and when im dreaming i feel as though im just recalling a foggy memory
Lucid dreaming is what intrigues me the most because it's something entirely on another level compared to normal un/semi conscious dreams. When I first learned how get inside them, the near indistinguishable resemblance to waking reality and having all 5 senses intact with full consciousness and control changed my life forever. I have a feeling in the future some breakthroughs may finally be made when we discover more about human consciousness.
Lucid dreaming is truly an amazing phenomenon. I've had quite a few and to be able to be completely aware in a dream where you can do literally whatever you want, is surreal. It's remarkable what the brain is capable of and I agree with your point about the breakthroughs that will follow once we learn more about the nature of consciousness
Yeah it is odd. You're normal run of the mill dreams are generated by the parts of your brain that make up your subconscious, less than controllable, brain activity. It's like the programs running in the background while everything else is turned off. When you lucid dream, however, it's like everything else is turned back on, but instead of being awake and all like you normally should, you're just asleep and viewing your dreams cognizant of what they actually are, even to the extent that you can manipulate it heavily.
What really fascinates me is how we sense time in a dream. I often have those dreams that feel like hours or days have gone, when in reality i just had a 15 min nap.
(I copy and pasted this response from another comment I left about a guy interested how dreams know to end. His example was with a stick of dynamite going off, perfectly in sync with a thunderclap waking him up. I thought you would find it fascinating.) This is probably because your brain already fucks with your perception of time. It makes it up, skips forward, rewinds. You instantly forget mindless repetitive tasks of routine, to the point of getting concerned if you actually did them. You glance at the clock, for its second hand to waver in place for far longer than a second. You spend your time engaged in a task and hours fly by. You spend your time staring at the clock, and it crawls. Your brain could very well just have kept going, but noticed the lightning, and moved events around. Sped up the dream by 10x to get to the most convenient stopping point, like an explosive thunderclap. Our brains want to make sense, to a degree. They like logic. Abruptly stopping a flow of consciousness like a dream is distressing. Its snapping from one reality to another. Without a good segue, it really wants that transition to be slow. Dream ends, no memories, blank consciousness, return behind your eyelids. You only snap awake when your ready. If your not ready, your brain wants to make something up fast. Otherwise it makes the transition even worse. TNT exploding is scary, but it follows the continuity of the waking world without needing anything elaborate. Like a sudden thunderstorm in your dream.
@@pauldeddens5349 Omg thank you so much for this. I think this is somewhat same with that falling feeling that we get when we are about to wake up and the brain somehow makes it makes sense in the ongoing dream. In my case it's always stepping on a wet/slippery surface or missing a step on a staircase.
@@laineysays You know, I experience that seldomly in my dreams. Whenever that happens, I wake up with my heart beating fast as if I actually missed a step and fell down on the stairs. That's how I always felt about it.
Well, that's tricky, I'm one of those people that sometimes sleep with their eyes open, obviously I'm not conscious of it but many people have told me I do open them at some point apparently
this feels right to me. when you're in the process of falling asleep, you almost have "semi-dreams" where your mind goes at light speed with different thoughts and scenarios. they arent as real or sensory as dreams, just passing thoughts you become aware of when you get woken up. then dreams are when you're fully asleep. its also crazy how good that partially asleep state feels to be in. i think the key to all this is DMT actually, and the fact our brain releases some when we are about to sleep.
FR. i feel like when youre drifting into sleep, you go autopilot. i always think of like scenarios before sleeping, like to help me think of new lore for my OCs or smth, but then it goes on autopilot and suddenly a random character eats cheese or some other random thing?? i feel like if i dont become conscious again, i drift into sleep. but if i randomly turn off autopilot, im like "wait what? why am i thinking of cheese?" and reset the scenario bc it got messed up 💀 there are times where my autopilot made my chars say the most nonsensical things and i only realise how ridiculous it sounds once i "regain consciousness"
it gets weirder when you dream something that ends up happening in real life that same day. has happened to me on a few occasions where i have a vivid dream that i just shrug off, but then that same day i find myself experiencing the situation i dreamt of almost exactly. taught me to pay closer attention to my dreams
Same here. It's actually helped me make better choices in those situations. I had a dream where my old boss was upset about a project I hadn't finished. In the dream, I was overly defensive and I didn't get my valid reasons across. 2 months later, I'm in his office having the exact conversation, and then he gets to the question I was waiting for: "So, why isn't it done yet?". I calmly explained why, and he came around and realised he was delaying the project (which was why I was overly defensive in the dream). Trippy stuff.
this happens to me too, and i have also experienced dreaming through someone else's pov that was actually happening in the same moment i was sleeping. it's insane. its called extrasensory perception. I want to solve it one day using physics
For me, I had a dream about my friend. A mutual friend and repeated dreams. It took 2 years but I married him. When I first met my husband through a mutual group, I had no interests. he was an unshaven, long haired dirty shoed, week long same shirt wearing military guy. Everything against my taste. A month later after my first dream, we happen to show up just him and I at the bar waiting for friends. We talked for an hour, and I was like “you are the man of my dreams”. He spoke bear fluent arabic, Iraqi arabic! He had learned in military and serving with Iraqis also, which my brother served in Iraqi Army. Another year goes by after seeing him with countless women who could care less about him and finally we have a moment where we realize we should start dating, another year we are married. 7 years now. I have fallen in love with him multiple times, and have had multiple dreams of him where I wake up and want to melt into him even though I can’t remember what the dream was about exactly. I watched him with different women weekly for a year while crushing on him, yet I never have had a negative dream of him with another women like my friends have had of there husband’s and say it made them depressed for a week. I really thank God for him, and do not want to waste such a beautiful and pure man. I would live in a box with him if I had to, but I know in the worst times, he always figures it out. I always try to empower him, even when he makes mistakes.
"I decided my door wasn't locked" is the most quintessential lucid dream experience for me. I think there's some ambiguity about what qualifies as a lucid dream. Like I know some people who say they always lucid dream because they're always aware that they're dreaming, but they've never had the power to control it. But for me, it's the experience of just going "Oh, this is all in my head, so I can just make things up."
Yes! That is why I can’t lucid dream, that feeling of being out of control scares me to my core and honestly feels like the closest thing I can imagine to death.
I really don't understand that cause when I have lucid dreams, I just end up kind of realizing it's not real but I still go with the story without being in control or I just become so conscious that I wake up. Although I'll try to control my dreams next time it happens
@@nebd1760 Yeah I feel like I'd call that only like a half-lucid dream… or maybe that's a lucid dream, and we need a new word to distinguish it from the kind of lucid dream where you gain control. good luck in your endeavors!
@@nebd1760 same thing happens to me in almost all my dreams. i realize that i'm dreaming, but i don't realize the fact that hey, maybe i could do things differently if i tried
Does forcing yourself to wake up count as lucid dreaming? I had an experience like that, once. It started out as a regular dream - a nightmare, as a matter of fact - where I heard noises from my kitchen similar to a cat scratching it's food bags (my irl cat tended to do that often to get my attention, so that wasn't anything unsual). However, for some reaason, in this dream, these noises seemed...off to me. Like, I had this uncanny, uncomfortable feeling that it wasn't my cat, but someone (or more like something) that wasn't supposed to be there. I started to slowly, anxiously make my way torwards the kitchen, but right before I could turn the corner and see what kind of creature was making the noise, I became consious I was in a dream, and immediatly went like "WAIT WTF, *why* am I going *torwards* the monster, this is a *terrible* idea! Wake up, wake up, wake up-" and then I woke up. Later figured that had to be a lucid dream. Kind of salty that I forced myself to wake up instead of controlling the dream and ABSOLUTELY *DESTROYING* the monster, though I suppose that could have just been survival instinct: I'm innately below average in most physical qualities, (strenght, speed, stamina etc), putting me at a huge disadvantage in real life physical combat, so it makes sense my brain's first instinct was to "flee" (aka wake myself up before encountering the monster) rather than to fight. Regardless, it was a super interesting experience!
the weirdest thing about dreaming is how you know things you never learned irl, like seeing a dream where you're a college professor giving a lecture on a subject you're completely clueless on irl, but everything you say makes sense and is the only thing you fail to remember when you wake up. happened to me once and i woke up thinking "i knew a fact in my dream that i don't actually know and i can't really remember it to fact check it".
Reminds me of a few lucid dreams I've had where I purposely examined my surroundings to see how much detail is in my dreams eg. opening up drawers to see whats inside....always wake up remembering there was lots of detail, but not the detail/object themselves
ugh yes!! i dont know how many dreams ive had at this point where im reading an incredibly entertaining book and then i wake up and remember nothing of what the book was about, just the feeling that it was so amazing T_T
I had a dream like that, but I remembered it clearly. I was just spouting nonsense as the teacher. I felt horribly bad when I woke up for teaching the fake students such things.
When we are awake, our brains are simulating a representation of the outside world. Dreaming is the same thing that happens when you are awake: Neurons fire, filling in the details of experience, and simulating an internal reality.
I've had lucid dreams on a couple occasions and whenever I mention to the people in the dream that they are in fact not real, they always got really angry with me. Like I wasn't supposed to know that it's a dream
Most nights that I dream, at one point during the dream I will realise that I am asleep and dreaming , I have the same thing if I tell people that it’s a dream, they will get very angry and attack me. This is why I take medication so I don’t dream anymore😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@justarandomkid3275 you shouldnt take medication to not have dreams. you must realize that you are in control and they cannot hurt you. its scary but you have to at least try, you are giving power to them by hiding. you can do it
Does it end in a big DBZ level fight? Cuz that happened to me once. Though the more I think about it, the more I feel like that was only a semi-lucid dream for me.
@@this.science i think you are a big youtuber trying to grow a new channel undercover as a challange.the amount of editing and scripting your videos need are insane. i subbed early lol .
the weird think in dreams is that you never blink once and you never use your phone, it's like anything that has many details doesn't show up in dreams
For a period of time I remember having 2 to 3 dreams where I took my phone out and actually recorded a video in Snapchat 😂. In one of them I went to a house (I think it was the one we live in or another familiar house), I climbed a ladder or just went up a staircase until I reached the top, there was a dark room with furniture all lit with yellow/golden light, I took my phone out and took a video in Snapchat and then I wanted to send it to my sister I think, but the recorded video was blurry and distorted and it appeared to lag behind as well, I tried to record another video but the same thing happened, then I just felt scared and somehow found an elevator. When the doors of the elevator opened once I reached the bottom floor, something just charged towards me out of nowhere and it was very very fast, I immediately woke up scared 😂
This reminds me of the time I was writing a story, and after I went to sleep, the main character came to me in the dream and we sat around a fire together, eating fish. They described a few errors I've made in the writings compared to their sheet, and gave me advice on how to write them better. After taking time to apply their criticism the next day, I've found that writing them became a lot more fun, and others enjoyed their characters a lot more.
One of the coolest things to do with lucid dreams is summoning characters or people you know and seeing what they have to say. That said if you're ready for hard truths you could always try summoning yourself and having a real 'heart to heart' with a mental mirror.
i really wanna try this, but for some reason im afraid of lucid dreaming and i had one recently. instead of thinking logically like i was awake, i was already filled with anxiety and tried to wake myself up, leading to a false awakening... but the thing is, i thought i was actually awake, so i wrote down my dream (like i would actually do) and lost lucidity. then it turned into a very messed up and gory dream, tho it wasnt a nightmare. then i ACTUALLY woke up. but i did have multiple dreams of my main OC (which is also my pfp lol) doing weird things like a singing competition?? 💀
I'm a sucker for finding misspelled words and I really appreciate that you go out of your way to misspell every word you can that it makes sense to misspell. Genius level subliminal engagment
That is a very cynical and inaccurate portrayal of "play" which is one of the most important methods of acquiring, practicing, and using skills. Play requires intense focus, dedication, and all aspects of cognition. It is not for "not needed" time. (The body actually requires almost no rest. It takes 12 minutes for a muscle to recover from exhaustion. The heart recovers between beats. Sleep is a mental process accompanied by endocrine events.)
You could say that the purpose of sleep is for your body to rest, but some ideas I've wondered about might also suggest something a little different. Conscious thought and behavior presumably takes up energy, and it seems that, when I am paying attention to more things and am more aware and mentally engaged, more of that energy is being used up. Yet, I also find that, at night, the capacity I have to pay attention to things seems to shrink, and I also become a bit more forgetful. It seems like I am able to exercise less control over my mind in these late hours, but I also notice that things still continue to happen in my mind, even though it's not as directed by my deliberate intentions. In this state of mind, it can feel more like I'm just watching TV channels that a sibling is flicking through. Sometimes, this chaotic and somewhat spontaneous unraveling of my thoughts and recent memories brings insights and knowledge, helping me notice connections and find explanations for things I experienced but didn't understand quite as well. I think this might relate to or actually be the process that is called memory consolidation. I heard that this sort of mental phenomenon of memory consolidation helps us learn, and it happens during sleep as well. For it to happen, the necessary condition can be a less present awareness where your mind is more on autopilot and seemingly not driven as much by you. I get the impression that the purpose of sleep is to get into this state of mind where our brains make more sense of the experiences we've had, and it could simply be that it requires your body to go dormant so that it can allocate more mental and physical resources to this process. TL;DR: Maybe sleep is just your brain shutting down your body so that your brain can do the paperwork and make better sense of all the stuff that happened to you that day.
@@mikemondano3624I’d have to disagree on nearly all counts there, playing is just simply having fun. After an intense workout, it takes longer than 12 minutes to fully recover, stairs after doing leg day can feel nearly impossible. When I first started working construction as an electrician, after all the stairs I had to climb all day, I got out of bed the next day and fell over because my leg muscles were so wiped out. As far as sleep goes, you absolutely do need sleep or your brain will eventually physically shut down from exhaustion. I think the longest anyone has gone without it (on record) is around 11 days. I do agree with the heart, if it didn’t recover rapidly, I don’t think any of us would be here to talk about it.
One thing that always confounds me is how your perception or "view" of a dream can come in all kinds of different forms and switch between them on a dime several times throughout the dream. Using my own dreams as an example, I can recall several that changed from being in first-person view, to being in third-person view like I was watching a movie starring myself, to looking through the eyes of someone else entirely. I've also had dreams that have been depicted as if I was actually watching a movie or playing a video game, even having a visible screen frame bordering my field of vision. Probably the most interesting ones I've had were ones that were depicted like an animated film or simply a series of drawings, paintings, or some other art medium. One of my most memorable dreams played out like a dramatic prologue to a fantasy movie, being narrated in verse with a sort of slideshow of woodcut images. I don't recall the entire poem, but it did inspire me to try and "finish" it eventually.
I had my most memorable lucid dream at 7 years old. it was about me going home from school with mom and a few other adults (her friends). once we reached home, i turned to mom and told her that we're all actually in my dream and that i can prove it. her friends just laughed, but she got curious and asked me to do it. i told her to take me by the hand and assured her that we will now both wake up and she will find herself in the bed next to me. she took my hand, i closed my eyes shut, then opened them and.. found myself alone in the bed. i got so upset that i cried. it had turned out that she woke up a few minutes before i did and had went to the kitchen to make breakfast. im 18 now, yet i still cry whenever i remember this story lol. r.i.p. mom, love you forever
I love that you admit you don't know in the end, it is more satisfying than the other grandiose conclusions that feel cliche at this point on the internet 🤣
One thing that fascinates me about some dreams. (A rasta in the movie John dies at the end explains this) Say you are having a dream and in that dream someone is about to blow you up with dynamite. When the dynamite explodes you wake up to the thunder and lighting or maybe some other loud bang. Now how did our brain know to time the event so perfectly. One of those things that makes you think about time and how it might really behave.
@@deathjumper2137 yeah i think the same, you hear something loud in the real world and your mind makes up a fitting story in an instant, so it matches, happened to me countless times
I once dreamed that my mother came into my room to ask me something and I was just pissed off and told her to go away, went back to doing whatever I was doing. The dream ended, I woke up at like 1 pm, alone, mom not answering my calls. She gets home, I ask her where she's been and stuff, but she just gave me the silent treatment. After a while she finally told me she came to my room that morning to tell me she was going to see my grandfather and apparently I had a whole conversation with her whilst being asleep telling her to leave me alone and stuff, so she just got upset and left. I concluded my brain somehow simultaniously had a conversation with her while keeping me in my dream state. That was so wierd.
I usually wake up 10-15 seconds before my alarm, before someone calls me, before a noise happens. At first I thought it was strange, but I think I get it now. It's because of the way I remember my sleep that it seems odd. I'm in a state of very light somnolence all throughout, but when a noise happens I become fully awake. It's not that I wake up 10-15 seconds before a noise, it's that I remember the last 10-15 seconds before I'm fully awake. The rest disappears from my memory
“Your brain inhibits motor neurons … so you don’t act out your dreams”. As someone who has woken up their sibling bc I was elbowing the absolute sh!t out of my headboard while dreaming of a giant spider pouncing on me, I can attest that this does not always work.
When your brain stem forgets to shut off your body while you're asleep, that's sleep-walking. When it forgets to turn it back on after you're awake, that's sleep paralysis.
I have genuinely had at least two instances where I couldn't open my eyes in my dreams. I could raise my eyelids enough to look down, but not forward. I couldn't see in my dream because I was trying to open my eyes in real life while my body fought the effort. I don't know anyway else to put it, but it felt so damn strange.
The strangest aspect of dreams, to me, is that they can let you feel things you can't feel in real life, or that you haven't felt before in any capacity. Like, I now know what it's like to be part of a type of hivemind, which wasn't even about being a brainless drone but rather adding your memory, knowledge and individuality to the hive. Was oddly nice, actually. I also know what it feels like to genuinely fear for your life. That was less nice.
i actually had a dream where i was sh0t (this was back when i was still in hs and random mass sh00tings were rampant and a real fear.) i could feel every bit of it..the fear, dread, and then the physical aspect. wow. it was not just in the dream either. when i woke up there was still a radiating warmth/searing pain i can't even describe- except that, it was probably as realistic as my brain could conjure up on a whim. i genuinely believed i had been wounded. pretty crazy to think about
Dreams are so interesting to me, especially the part where they can give you new ideas. I’ve gotten melody ideas and had friends tell me funny jokes that I wouldn’t have thought to make. So cool how the subconscious is so mysterious and somehow still a part of us. Also great video mate. Incredible that you managed to get 60K subs in 1 month. The preparation you’ve done before making this channel shows (at least in my eyes), or you’re just insanely cracked lmao
The creativity you get while lucid dreaming is insane, it's like that part of the brain is working at 200%, the hard part is remembering all that stuff when you wake up
I took a class on the brain and dreams are soooo much more interesting with a deeper understanding. “Reality” as we see it isn’t real until our brain uses our senses to confirm its validity. Dreams feel so real because as far as our brain is concerned (Due to our outside senses being turned off) they are are reality. I’m rambling but it’s just so cool I couldn’t help it 😂.
Lucid dreaming is weird, because you don't even have to realize you're in a dream. I had a lucid dream when I was younger, and I basically thought "oh, I can control whatever here, cool" and just started lucid dreaming with SpongeBob characters
I love lucid dreaming. I discovered the concept when I was around 11 years old and I’ve figured out how to reliably enter them (try looking at your hands in a dream, they’ll look weird as hell) and it feels exactly like real life, except with console commands enabled. You can do quite literally anything you can imagine. One of my favorite things to do in my early lucid days was to tell people they’re in a dream, they don’t believe me, and then I do something impossible like make an object appear right in front of them. Sometimes they’re unfazed, sometimes they freak out and everyone tries to attack me, or anything in between. I can also (usually) force-wake myself even if I’m not lucid, which is pretty useful if I find myself in a nightmare. Dreams are extremely interesting. Edit: that all said, it’s 1:30 AM here and I wish I could friggin fall asleep more easily…..
@@Davidee_631 the easiest way to do it (in my opinion) is to do a “reality check”. Basically something you do regularly IRL and ask yourself “am I dreaming?” My favorite is to look at my hands, they look normal IRL obviously, but they look distorted in my dreams. After doing it once or twice a day for a week or two, I started doing it subconsciously in my dreams as well. As soon as I see my hands, I immediately recognize I’m in a dream, and become lucid. There are more methods if you want to become lucid sooner than that, but I’m at work rn so I can’t write all those methods at the moment. But the reality check method is the most consistent for me, I’m lucid most of the times that I dream because of it.
@@Davidee_631 also, there’s a channel called “Giz Edwards” who talks about lucid dreaming and methods a lot, I’d highly recommend if you want to learn more. That’s where I learned a lot about inducing lucid dreams
It's so weird to me that, when I'm in a nightmare, if the nightmare's "theme" is something like physical violence, social anxiety, someone's death, etc AKA real and tangible things, I almost never realize i'm dreaming and thus can't force myself awake. But whenever the theme is something otherworldly, like a psychological horror game, where the content relates to ghosts, creatures, the sense of uneasiness from an unknown presence etc. I almost always realize "Okay, this shit's a nightmare. Time to bounce, fuck this." Useful in a way, but I'd really like to be able to wake up from all those nightmares where I get stabbed or shot to death (I actually feel physical pain when that happens while I'm dreaming)
@@doomerbloomer6160 yeah I get what you mean, I had an absurdly realistic dream where someone broke into my apartment and said “you know what, I am absurdly pissed off” (not a direct quote but it was something like that) and shot me in the heart. Won’t go into too much detail here but I felt the pain and felt myself dying, reflected on my life, held out hope that an ambulance would show up or something, and then made peace with the fact that this is it. I’m going to die, and there is nothing that can be done about it besides accepting my fate. And then I woke up. I can’t force wake from *every* dream, but that one absolutely gave me a renewed love for life. And led to me checking my vitals to make sure I’m still alive. Lol. That one gave me a lot to think about.
@@Davidee_631 my biggest tip is wake up early (like 2 hours earlier than u should) and then get back to sleep again. You know that drowsy feeling you don't want to get out of bed? You have to feel that and sleep while trying to maintain your consciousness. The thing is, you'll easily get back to sleep without fully losing your consciousness. Just imagine what you want to lucid dream and you won't realize you're already dreaming. It's hard to explain but this is the best thing I could do.
To me, the weirdest thing about dreams is when they try to send you a direct message or when I outright dream of a future event IN DETAIL that I've had no interest in knowing before. Both are such weird experiences and always fascinate me, like seeing my body, thoughts and actions through a flying crow's body or walking through a nonexisting land that I somehow actually know or getting a job in a specific position 3 years before actually getting into a university of said field or actually interacting with people you never knew or met through your dreams that you are about to meet the NEXT DAY. Dreams are very fascinating honestly
I know right. Sometimes I have dreams of future events. Deja vu. Scientists say it's just your memory conflating your dreams with something that happened previously. You think you're dreaming the future, but you're just dreaming of a similar thing based on what you've previously experienced. But that isn't the case. I often dream of future events, to the point where I can predict the words and emotions of people around me. They are so accurate that I can't describe them as anything but magical. Sometimes these "deja vu" experiences happen for something I know I've never done before.
I've had something similar happen multiple times. The last time it happened I got scared and basically fucked up a situation that could of been great but ig I'll never know. Also, I had one as a kid where I broke my nose in a dream, and then it happened months later, the exact same way.
Future predicting dreams are honestly very interesting. I know some people who've had them- my sister dreamed of the exact location our apartment and, due to saying outright that happened in her dream, was able to move into the apartment. One of my close irl friends had a dream a long time ago about sitting in class building a fake mini-rover as someone sat next to them eating pringles- that someone was me. I myself have had a predictive dream- the beta version of the Moss Blanket from Slime Rancher appeared in a dream when I was around 7 years old, even including many slimes from the game including ones such as hunter slimes. It's all rather intriguing
this. this is my vibe. this is the kind of content i wanna see on my youtube feed educational sarcastic absurt videos that cut the bullshit and explain random stuff that make more sense of the world :)
I love how no one talks about the fact that we know so much about stuff like the origin of the universe and how we ended up where we are today, and yet we don’t 100% know anything about the action we spend a fourth of our life doing.
Could maybe be explained by this; we can do whatever we want with planets. However, when it comes to experimentation on humans, ethics limit the rate of knowledge we can gain. Ultimately, if we were allowed to just stuff some sensors into an unlucky test subject's brain we might know more about sleeping in no time, but that's obviously completely out of the question
@@ewanarends5512 Nah, plenty of unethical shit has been done surrounding the brain and sleep within the past couple hundred years. We really just don't know anything as the brain is a million times more complex than the brain could hope to comprehend.
The weirdest thing to me about dreams is that ever since AI has been getting better I've noticed some striking similarities between what AI generates and how my dreams look. Watching/ looking at anything AI generated is like looking at a waking dream. It's really unsettling to me. Sometimes it even feels as if part of me is AI and when I'm dreaming this AI part of me is trying to recreate the world from all my memories.
The way I see it is that AI art operates similarly to our unconscious (if you could ask it specifically, that is). While dreaming, the uncounscious harnesses unimaginable amounts of information and channels it into something semi-concrete, surreal -- not entirely making sense but still having some hold of it; e.g. you see a dream where gravity is twice as strong or weak than it should be on Earth, but, still, there's the concept of gravity itself, of objects and their weight, and yourself being under its influence, too. AI neuronets, too, process colossal amounts of data and bring out something as coherent as they could. In that sense, you could say, it's not you imitating AI, but rather AI imitating your human unconscious :)
Probably because AI in the state its in now is comparable to an unconscious human brain running rampant with whatever memories happen to be stored there. AI programs are “taught” by feeding them information, or digital memories of a sort, which they then use to derive images from. While you sleep, your brain may be pulling out memories and generating random stuff by combining said memories. We arent even close to a conscious AI that can think for itself like a person can, but when you sleep you’re temporarily shutting off your brain’s ability to process and respond to stimuli. Youre left with whatever’s already there in storage.
AI uses patterns to combine previous existing art into new art, we use patterns to combine previous existing memories into "new" visuals in our dreams.
There seems to be a link between consiousness, play, and dreams, a lot of animals such as insects and invertibrates, are purely instinct driven and show no signs of play or dreaming. Animals who have a bit more going on in their head but still are very instinct driven such as some fish, still don’t play or dream. But animals who have shown traits that go beyond instincts (puzzle solving, creativity, etc) like bunnies, cats, dogs, and crows show signs of dreaming and play. It could be that one of these three leads to the other two inevitable (dreaming about crazy stuff leads you to think about the world more creatively/being curious and playing leads to your brain being formed in a way which it will dream/all 3 together just are the definition of exiting from pure instincts so they emerge in tandem)
Each of our dream is our own real world... Originally, we don't know what to put there... We agreed to be here to learn about things we can put in our dreams so it will not be blank like before...
the craziest thing about lucid dreaming to me is what happens when you tell the people in your dream that it is in fact a dream. for me, i’ve lucid dreamed only 2 or 3 times in my entire life. after the first time, and after seeing stuff online about other people’s experience with telling the people in their dreams, it became a goal of mine. the next time i had a lucid dream, almost as soon as i realized, i got a little too excited and started yelling at everyone that they weren’t real and that they’re in a dream, almost like i was rubbing it in. turns out, this maybe wasn’t the best idea. everyone stopped. they all just stared at me. they had this creepy look on their faces, like they were slightly mad. it was super creepy. the excitement over the fact that i was lucid dreaming woke me up pretty soon after this, but i would’ve liked to stay and find out if the people in my dream would have ever gone back to acting normal or not.
That's something I've noticed with a lot of people that mention to people in their dreams that they aren't real. There is a universal reaction from those people that they get displeased, angry, or even violently furious when you tell them they're just figments of your imagination. It's almost like you broke a cardinal rule of dreaming.
I once told a dude in a dream that he wasn't real and he legit peaced out. Like he just phased out of existance because if he didn't have to be there then he wasn't going to be. That said if you get into lucid dreaming then summoning 'figments' of people and talking to them can be awesome. I've had pretty profound revelations about friends and acquaintances which my subconscious apparently picked up on but my waking mind never realised. OR you can just summon jesus and the devil and watch them hash it out. Also summoning 'yourself' is also probably going to be a memorable occasion...
After reading this comment, i experience the same thing. I tell every people on my dream that they're not real, and u know what, they just laugh at me and just walk casually.
@@uberschnilthegreat22 nah, its because you expect it to happen. if youve read of those stories, its bound to happen, even if you dont remember it consciously. if you expect them to be normal, they will be, because other people who have never heard of this tell their chars they're in a dream and everyone shrugs it off. ive only gone lucid a few times, but saying things are a dream out loud js led me to 1. wake up or 2. get sucked into the dream void/the state between waking up or sleeping.
Most likely dreams are just 'brain static'. The body needs to rest for 8ish hours but the brain (specifically neurons) need to keep firing to stay healthy. While dreams might sometimes contain poingnent or relevant content, thats ignoring the other 99.99% of dreams which are complete nonsense.
@@sicksock435446 you know, I’ve noticed that whenever I put a lot of importance in some skill, say 3 years ago learning how to drive, I’ll have frequent dreams about performing that skill. So dreams might not be as random as we think, and might have function.
I've had many lucid dreams and whenever I would tell people in the dreams your not real, your a figment of my imagination, you are a representation of my brain and how it preseves you they would have weird responses like one just quietly said 'I know' another just ignored me completely, another started crying and one got angry claiming thet were real
I’ve only really been fully aware in a dream a handful of times. And on those few occasions the other person would either shush me, ignore me, or my dream would end completely… it’s confusing
Outer-body dreams are the craziest to me. Seeing YOURSELF from a floating perspective never fails to make me wake up TERRIFIED. It makes me feel uncomfortably seen...
What always perplexes me as well is the fact that the mind can simulate things that aren't at all possible, but FEEL possible. Like flight, retaining that weightlessness you feel in pools or when going down a sharp hill, but your brain sustains that experience to mimic what it could feel like. Breathing water but still functioning has always thrown me off, because it's a feeling I literally can't describe. I'm sure it's terrifying, realistically. Even then, I've had a dream SO intense that it woke me up from a purely unexplainable full-body feeling. I literally can't explain it because I've never felt anything else in my life to compare it to. It wasn't pain, pleasure, muscular paralysis, drunkenness, nothing- it was its own separate unique experience. I'm also a lucid dreamer, and have actively taken myself out of uncomfortable situations sometimes by waking up, but then I would go back to sleep to start right where I left off simply because I was curious about the outcome.
I sometimes think about just how precisely complex are the NPCs in my dreams. Is the simulation complex enough for me to consider them different entities from me? Are they me? I can't read their minds, can't tell what they're going to do, can't make them do something, yet they still act intelligently. Creepy.
My theory is that dreams are built on vague impressions that are then “filled in” by the conscious mind afterwards. Instead of simulating all the complex behaviors and internal components of a person, it connects the concept of a person with the concept of an action and fills in the rest with random noise.
My theory is that dreams are built on vague impressions that are then “filled in” by the conscious mind afterwards. Instead of simulating all the complex behaviors and internal components of a person, it connects the concept of a person with the concept of an action and fills in the rest with random noise.
My theory is that the subconscious already knows the patterns of familiar people (their voice, gestures, character, etc.) and simply follows the algorithm, just like the predictive text on mobile keyboards.
schizophrenic dreams are something else, i have frequent dreams of getting shot, being on the other end of the gun, home invasions, getting followed, lots of scary shit i’ve dreamed about & woke up thanking god
As smeone who goes between having lucid dreams and normal ones, I posit this: We sleep in cycles, where we go from deep sleep to light sleep that are on average about 1.5 hours in length. REM is the period at the end of a sleep cycle where we experience the lightest sleep and also where we experience dreams (This is exemplified by the fact that when you are woken from sleep during REM you feel rested, and when you wake up in any other phase you feel dogshit tired). Since REM is the lightest form of sleep, our conscious brains are turned on minimally. We can form memories and experience dreams during these times, and it is because we are ever so slightly awake. What a lucid dream is, compared to a regular dream, is simply a scale of awakeness during REM. The more control you have over the dream, the more awake you are. At the most awake end of the scale is simple thought/ "daydreaming." Dreams only have meaning because humans prescribe meaning to everything we experience. Dreams do not necessarily have a purpose (much like life itself), but we can give them purpose. And if that isn't the most human thing ever, then I don't know what is :) Do you happen to get bad sleep?
This is a cool comment! Most of the time when i am dreaming i manage to gain consciousness but every time i try to control anything i just wake up almost instantly but the feeling i get is also very similar to when i close my eyes and imagine anything visual since that is useful for drawing and such. The moment i wake up from a conscious dream if i close my eyes and imagine anything visual again the image is super clear as if i was still in a dream but the more i wake up the more blurry it becomes until it is just a simple and awake attempt at visualization. So to me it really does feel like a scale exists like the one you mentioned. I hope some of this makes sense
Thank you. Not one person ever told me what is even lucid dream. I always thought it is in the middle of a sleep. Unlike daydreaming I assume Lucid dream is you have control of everything but the script is already there and the movie is set, while daydreaming is you doing all the work; scripting, directing etc etc. Am I correct or wrong?
@@Verårtu I would say more so that in lucid dreaming it feels like a script is already there but it isn't. When you're daydreaming, things need to make sense so you put effort into a cohesive string of thoughts. While you're lucidly dreaming, stuff is still nonsense like in a regular dream. There is no script, but it still feels cohesive because your brain cannot reason and argue with validity when you're only slightly conscious. So, you just go with the normal flow of the dream and alter things when you want to and then your experience the the ways that your actions change the course of the dream.
@@necroseus So you telling me I've always can and already does so lucid dreaming!?! I always thought it was so complicated but I've been doing it naturally... wow Thank you for clearing this up for me!
I had a dream about a huge mansion that was made up of pieces of the homes I had experienced while awake. It was like fragments of memories stitched together composed by a flood of emotions in the process of re-balancing hormones and brain chemistry.
Dreams are, however, totally ineffable. The moment you try to put one into words, you've lost, altered, and added to comport with language structure. Dreams come from a deep place, the still point, stasis, where talk comes from. Dream analysis and theology have much in common in that neither is ever wrong because neither can ever be verified.
@@mikemondano3624There are more grounded ways of analyzing dreams, for example writing said dream down and pulling apart themes and associating them with memories and the things those memories are associated with ect
@dyslexicbatnam1350 Only a billion? Are you calling me a gnat? The trouble with memory's "rooms" is that they change every day and can never be found twice in the same place or condition. Memory isn't storage - it's an organic part of the mind always changing. Less than 10% of what we "remember" for 30+ years ago actually happened. The rest satisfies psychological needs.
everytime i'm dreaming and I realize things aren't adding up and end up lucid dreaming, it becomes so much harder to stay in the dream. It's the same feeling as when someone is explaining something important and I keep on zoning out and trying to pay attention, but can't.
As a longtime lucid dreamer the trick is to stay somewhat 'detached', if you push or pull too hard then you wake yourself up. The best tricks are spinning, which lets you 'reset' the dream, and usually makes things way more vivid, and expectation, which is where instead of trying to force things to change or happen, you just kinda 'expect' them to happen and they do.
@@sicksock435446 Wait, is this why when I had a dream, and I realized I might be in a dream, and started going in circles in a small area to test if it feels like dream, I didn't wake up for a while even tho I kinda knew it was a dream? And it actually felt too real?
My dreams have always been very fantastical. Not rooted in reality. And also complete stories. Beginning, middle, end ,even foreshadowing! However recently, they have been becoming more realistic. Now there are people I know, places I know, doing almost normal things. My guess is because I actually spend more time than I used to, thinking about the real world future. ( I am going through the process of applying to colleges.) I also think it’s interesting that when I wake up from dreams I might not remember details of what happened, but the emotion carries through. It’s like, when you walk into a room to do something but can’t remember what is was. The feeling that something important was happening but not being able to reach it. Then sometimes I do remember details and the emotion carries through. One time I dreamt (it’s a long story but this is the end of it) I was with a friend in high school (at the time I wasn’t in high school yet) and all these people pull swords from the lockers and start trying to stab us. I made the swards phase through us for awhile, but I was in the process of waking up and fighting to stay asleep so I could save him. I ended up not being able to keep it up and they stabbed my friend to death. And then I woke up, not with a complete understanding of what happened (and now I knew it was just a dream) but a strange sense of sadness. Not deep loss or anger. Just quiet sadness. Creepy. Idk how coherent this was I have been up for WAY too long (ironically)
When I was around 10 I used to dream every night for months that I had a family in a house at the top floor of an block of apartments i had never seen before. Every night however we would do new things, I got to know them more and better, and I even started to figure out my way to school from there cause I would go there in my sleep. It got to the point were reality of here and the reality of my dreams were mixed up and I wouldn't know how many days passed in my sleep and how many days passed when I was awake. Finally there was this big fight in my dream family. They all told me I had to leave. I asked them why but sadly i do'n't remember what they said. After that night I never had that dream again. I was devastated. I think i even tried to go back to the apartment in my dream but it was empty. It always freaked me out how detailed the dreams were and I always wondered why and how it happened. So its cool to know science has no clue either.
I'm talking about a robust, deeply sophisticated notion of hallucination. Hallucinations so real you can't distinguish them from reality. We're talking about the kind of hallucinations that are so mesmerizing that... imagine you start imagining you’re a sleeper. You lay there day after day, just dreaming your life away, perfecting the art of snoozing. You dream so hard that one day you wake up and realize, “Wait a minute-I can’t remember the last time I was actually awake!” You’ve forgotten how to do basic human things, like holding a conversation or remembering where you parked your car. Your biggest accomplishment is figuring out how to nap in various positions-back, side, even upside-down! You find yourself at a party, nodding off in the corner, and everyone’s like, “Look at that dreamer over there!” And you’re thinking, “Yeah, it’s a rough life, but at least my dreams are way cooler than this small talk!” That’s the kind of power of imagination I’m talking about-where you can drift into a reality where your biggest stress is which dream to follow: the one where you’re flying or the one where you’re in an epic snack battle with your favorite foods. So next time you catch yourself daydreaming, just remember: be careful-too much dreaming and you might end up as the star of your own sleep marathon!
I have nightmares when I need to wake up. I'm either: 1. Sleeping in a bad position where I can't breathe or I'm hurting myself. 2. I need to use the bathroom. I have good dreams when I have had enough sleep and I'm well rested. From monitoring these experiences, I think the purpose of a dream is to wake you up. When we solve problems in our dreams, we are anticipating the anxiety of these problems. The dream pushes us to go solve problems.
I think dreams are a great example of how powerful our brains are. Dreams have the potential to create images that we may otherwise be unable to imagine when conscious. Amazing video and very cool channel!
The weird thing is. You're going to read these words on a screen, but is that any different from your brain dreaming it? Like your brain is receiving chemical signals and some part of you which is "you" reads and interprets the meaning. I don't want to come off as a "woah but what is reality" dude, but from a scientific viewpoint, consciousness and experience are kind of fucking crazy if you think about it. There's a big mess of electrochemically reactive cells which are being prodded by sensory cells and that equates to your entire life. Wild.
From my experience everyone has different types of dreams rather it be lucid dreams, disappearing dreams (where you forget them almost instantly), nightmares, hyperrealistic dreams, future sight dreams (where you somehow predict or see the future), rooted dreams (Dreams that you can't seem to forget, they become rooted in your memory which can also be a nightmare) and memory call dreams where you recall something you've learned but forgot that you learned (I was once having a conversation with my philosophy teacher where he asked me if I knew who the first philosopher and since I havent touched philosophy in like 4 years I answered "Aristoteles" cus the name sounded cool and he got frustrated and answered "It's Thales." and after I woke up I remember this interaction and googled it and it sure was the correct answer...).
one time I was trying to fall asleep and my brain made the pun "no whey" and I didn't even remember what it was. I looked it up the next day, its a cheese thing. I have no idea where it came from, I don't remember ever learning about it. Probably from years ago and my brain randomly recalled it to make a pun.
it happens to me that they become nightmares really quick, not in the sense that scary stuff happens, but I start shrinking and compressing, losing control of my body until I start falling into some sort of black void, and when I hit the ground I finally wake up.
If you ask me, I think that the reason why dreams seem to be so challenging to understand for science is because they are closely related to how consciousness works in the first place. It is hard to explain because it is our brain going in a state of recovering energy and processing the information collected during the day. And as a result of that process we enter in an altered state of consciousness where abstract and subconscious thought generate life-like scenes. These ones are probably necessary to "conciliate" the subconscious with the conscious aspect of the mind. After finishing that process of "reseting", the brain tries to discard these scenes and that´s why we forget almost everything we dream. Unless it had such a big impact that it "sticks" to our conscious memory.
yeah and gotta say, when you dont sleep stuff gets very freaky you dont sleep. stuff gets dark and scary. never ever gets good. its always shadows creeping, eventually actual fears. look at stories about people that took methamphetamines' and stayed up for 10 days or longer. Meth doesnt really look like it causes the psychosis. ITs caused by not sleeping. people that sleep while taking it, never seem to exp it. they would say common things, like I saw my family members dead in a grid all over the place, they would track me with their eyes. feelings of intense fear. Ive stayed up for days and days too. and IVe had simialr things, tho not bodies. shadows, that after a while turn into a tornado that circles you. gets freaky. and then intense fear that is so primal you cant explain it. I finally sleep after staying up so late, and the moment I passed out, I woke up 5 mins later screaming in terror. unable to move, shrieking. I coudlnt image taking meth and being up 10 more days. some have claimed 20 days without sleep what is it about sleep that prevents dark, demonic like hallucinations, and fear. there comes a point where after so many days without sleep. your fear center is triggered.
I’ve always imagined dreams as a sort of stress test for the brain. Just generating random noise that usually so incomprehensible that it’s quickly forgotten. Every once is a while though, something makes enough sense that in hindsight it feels like an experience that you lived through. That being said I experience very rare dreams with very limited clarity and I’ve never had a lucid dream so that influences my view quite a bit.
for me the visuals are extremely vague, but with a story that mainly makes sense. I always lucid dream though, because I am consciously coming up with every aspect of the story.
Dreams are just telling me what issues I have to work out, any anxieties I have or telling me what I should ‘do next’. Or what tv show I’ve been obsessing over for the past 13 weeks. It’s a toss up.
Always intrigued by how creatively detailed dreams can get; part of my dream last night was me looking through a digital camera to see photos of some random woman whom I've never seen in real life - with each picture showing detailed scenes from her life over 40 years, such as hanging out with her uni friends in the 90's (could tell by the clothes). Not sure what my brain was trying to do there, but always appreciate the dream experience every night, and whatever 'movie' my brain cooks up
Usually for dealing with the emotion it still lingers around that event (as said, anxiety usually)... these dreams go away when we don't feel the same way around them anymore, usually when reaching a stage where we're not caring any less (which we usually feel is that way, but "really" isn't, at least to our weird subconscious).
i do notice that dreams definitely feel like they are *always* a result of less sound sleep, in other words , anxiety. even when i believe they are completely happy, strange, amazing dreams, they never ever make me feel more well-rested. it is as if they forced me to be awake in my head for longer than i should be. anyways!! this is very fascinating !! >:3
For me it’s the opposite. When I can’t remember my dreams, I’m sleepy and groggy throughout the morning. Whereas when I do remember, I’m more energized lol
I feel like that is an observation I can relate to. My experiences with dreams seem to be associated with some kind of disturbances, and, thinking back now, the times I experienced some disturbances or mental discomfort while in bed also seemed to correlate with the times I had dreams. My recent experience with dreams is that I haven't had many at all, or, I at least very rarely remembered them, and I've also hardly experienced any disturbances recently, not really even having to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but this recent experience of mine also seems to line up with your idea.
weird, for me i almost necer have dreams except when i sleep very well for at least 9 or 10 hours. so i almost never dream because i hardly get those 10 hours. funny how dream mechanics are different for everyone
@@xhec i don't think i've ever not had a dream and i don't even know what that is like. i swear even if i had a 30 minute nap i will still dream. it also pisses me off that even though i have dreamt every day of my life, i can only remember 0.001% of them. most of the dreams i remember are a few nightmares from my childhood. i also never have nightmares! maybe a few times a year i will have a "scary dream" but i wouldn't consider that a nightmare
We know more than we think. We’re never really active of the fact that we’re hearing and taking in information EVERY day, but you dont have the time nor energy to acknowledge everything you see. When you sleep though, what else can your brain do but sort through the tons of information. Of course, this is a very flawed view on my end, and i’m only sharing a raised thought. Thinking is so beautiful.
This guy’s videos are so good that they all feel longer than 10 minutes and I’m always surprised to see that they’re actually less than 7. Keep up the good work 👍
The concept of dreaming of dreaming has always been fascinating to me. I still remember when I was like young, I kept having the same dream-like thing(?) for like a week I had the same dream... Everytime I "woke up" or tried to wake up i'd always still be in my "bed" still in a dream, I couldn't even tell what was real anymore 😭. This went everyday for like a real life week straight and I was lowkey afraid to go to sleep after that 😭
I've had something similar happen to me! I was having a nightmare and I would realize I was in a dream, so I would decide to wake myself up. However, I quickly lost awareness and instead I would just go into a computer menu and "restart the program", and then the dream resets, several times in a row. It's spooky!
I HAD THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPEN TO ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG. Every single night for a week straight just like u said but for me it was a nightmare and I was being chased until I woke myself up n got chased again and again until I would finally wake up n be ready for it n I'd actually be awake
Dude I hate that I had it happen to me when I was 5 when 5 times I woken up but then was back in a nightmare and when I woke up for real the exact beginning of my dream happend where my mom walked in and told me everything was going to be okay but i didn’t want to go with her becuase every time I did in the dream she turned into a monster and I had to run
The weirdest part of my dreams is that it's extremely realistic, its so realistic that it gives me fake memories that I genuinely believe has happened in my life but is so absurd to be real
Whoa, this is an awesome concept for a story. I had one little prompt I was working on where the real world and dream world were flipped and I was imagining the existential crisis that happens when the MC discovers that.
It seems to me that dreams _are_ the processing your mind is doing. That's why you'll wake up with epiphanies from them, sometimes without remembering the dream(s) at all. They're very similar to pacing around your room and brainstorming or fantasizing about things, in that way, but done with a rejuvenative purpose as well.
What's up man, I'm an undergrad biochemistry major and I really enjoy your channel. Simple editing, informational, and a touch of humor; I hope to maybe do something similar one day. I recently started studying for the MCAT and learned something that caught my attention about your video. I'm not doing this to come at you or anything, I just figure you're interested in science so you might want to know! Anyways, at 4:35, you refer to the dominant hemisphere (the left in most people) being the main source of generating a thought. You say that in left-handed people, the dominant hemisphere is flipped, and becomes the right. I learned in my studying that this actually is not the case, and that the left hemisphere remains dominant in the overwhelming majority of left-handed people. Appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos, and look forward to watching your channel grow!
I have never once experienced a nightmare in my 21 years of existence. Every single time a dream begins to shift towards a creepy or uncomfortable tone, I begin lucid dreaming and "change" my dream. For example, I was once having a dream that started out very normal: just my family and me in our house when I got a weird urge to go down to my notoriously creepy basement. I reached the top of the stairs, looked down, and it was completely black-instant dread. And then it was like I somehow snapped out of it whilst still dreaming. I remember telling myself "I don't like that. That's scary. Let's dream about something else." And I sorted of floated before it immediately switched to a completely different dream. Not quite sure what that's about, maybe an internal defense mechanism? On an even weirder note: my mom has had several dreams throughout her life about people she knows dying. Each time she has one, that person dies in the exact same way she dreamt it, 3 days later.
When I was little I was playing games with a friend. It seemed every single main characters parents in movies died and that they can’t do anything unless their parents do. Or unless the character is grown up. I made up The character I was playing with my friends that their mother mysteriously died in their underwear in the bathroom. My mom overheard this and it was unsettling so she sent my friend home and interrogated me and asked me what on earth I was talking about. Fast forward. I am now 18. A year and a half ago my mom passed away from a brain aneurysm which is horribly unpredictable. She passed away in the bathroom in her underwear. We had a beautiful funeral for her and I still think about how eerie it is that time looped all the way back around to that experience. I remeber after my mom interrogated me how sickening it felt to even give a made up character that disturbing of a traumatic backstory and how stupid I was for thinking up something that dark as a child… Here I am now as an adult. It’s so freaking weird and I don’t know what to think of it
Idk if anybody else had this but I've had times where I dreamt about playing a game that was genuinely fun and had all this stuff to do. But I never wouldve been able go come up with such a game if I was awake.
When you sleep your body is healing itself. I believe dreams are a distraction of the mind to you keep you asleep longer and give you more time to heal. When I was in school I never got enough sleep which had many side effects. Anyways I noticed the more sleep I lost, the longer and more vivid my dreams would get. I got to the point where it was indistinguishable from reality. I could see, hear, and touch everything like it was real life. I noticed in the summer months when I had a chance to catch up on sleep, those hyper realistic dreams stopped. And it became the normal, uncontrollable stream of events that go by way to fast to remember.
I believe it has a purpose. When you were little and watched a scary movie, you had nightmare's of the monsters from that movie during the night. So if you were afraid of a particular situation back in the stone age, maybe you we're "prepared" for that eventuality during sleep.
when i was a kid growing up i came up with an idea where when you have a really realistic dream, your actually aware of yourself in another "world" akin to the Multi World Interpretation Theory (imagine my surprise learning bout that years later). So what happens when we die if we fall? We just wake up.
Lucid dreams are something very interesting to me. From my personal opinion, I think they differ from regular dreams because we have both our conscious and unconscious mind affecting the dream in equal measure. Basically, when we are awake and imagine things or daydream, our unconscious still active but our conscious is "leading the way", so to speak, so we have pretty much all control of what is happening. On regular dreams, our unconscious takes the lead and our consciousness follows, still affecting some stuff, but generally following whatever happens in the dream. When we lucid dream, both our conscious and unconscious take hold in equal measure, as such if you get too excited you are lucid dreaming your conscious takes over and you wake up, but if you go with the flow of the dream too much the unconscious takes over and it becomes a regular dream. Of course this is anecdotal, but I think lucid dreams can be a very interesting thing to explore to anyone interested, just don't go expecting to discover the secrets of the universe.
Yes this is so truuuueeee. I remember lucid dreaming and I tried not to control too much so I won't wake up and it ended up going back to a regular dream
I induced a lucid dream one time (i was trying all sorts of things for a month and this was the one time it worked before i gave up for a while). All that happened was i woke up in my room got out of bead inside of my dream, walked through the house and went outside. The colors were insanely graphic and I could see perfectly for the first time in forever without glasses. I walked down the side walk as much as I could before I lost control of the dream because I couldn’t think of what to do next and woke myself up. The sidewalk cement looked like an art piece painted by Gan gogh, except it wasn’t static and was almost morphed. The greens of the grass were the brightest I can remember. And the sun, was indescribable. Also a smell of freshness. Really strange and eye opening experience. Never tried psychedelics but I think this is the closest I’ve ever experienced.
@@jewishmcloin1933 This is generally known as a 'false awakening' which is probably the most common type of lucid dream for the uninitiated. They tend to be especially vivid and 9 times out of 10 when somebody is interested in lucid dreaming it's because of such a dream. Like @ZelphTheWebmancer said there's a balance between conscious/unconscious which exists in lucid dreams and I suspect that the "waking up" in false awakenings tricks your conscious mind into becoming aware of the dream. As somebody who has practiced lucid dreaming on and off he's dead right about there being a 'push and pull' in a lucid dream state. The trick is to 'go with the flow' while also 'expecting' the dream that you want. It's hard to explain but generally trying to force things will only present problems, like your subconscious is an antagonistic improv partner. Instead you just need to 'expect' the things you want to happen, and they generally will with a little prodding.
i think you are a big youtuber trying to grow a new channel undercover as a challange.the amount of editing and scripting your videos need are insane. i subbed early lol .
Absolutely! It's incredible to see how psilocybin mushrooms and psychedelics have the potential to make a positive impact on mental health. They've shown promising results in treating depression and anxiety. It's exciting to think about the possibilities they hold for helping people.
I know dreams. That's when I miss out on important meetings and events, and get left behind by my friends - because I can't put on my socks or tie my shoelaces. I try and try for what seems like hours. Thanks, brain.
i have those dreams too😭like i’ll have something important to do and just cannot manage to get myself ready for whatever reason and it drives me insane. maybe it’s fomo. lol
@@TOONJERZEY It's amusing afterwards but really frustrating as it happens. 😺 Also, I am back at school all the time, and that was many years ago. Time to graduate dream school I would think, but no.
2 days ago and yesterday I had a dream that someone is talking to me in Japanese (I'm from Poland and I did in fact learn Japanese but only for 2 months like one year ago so there's no way I can remember this) and believe me it was real Japanese on a fluent level. The person that was speaking was my friend and we were having normal Polish conversation before she started to speak Japanes. It was so weird and mysterious and I'm curious if I will have similar dream again today
Something similar happened to me when I was a child, I dreamt of swimming in the ocean. Obviously, it's not possible, but I'd suddenly notice I could breathe underwater. It was also recurring over several weeks, and it was probably because I wanted to be a mermaid 🧜♀️ It's almost as if our aspirations become a silent play that our consciousness puts on.
I learned french 15 years ago for school and my ability is basically 0 today, but I still have people speaking fluent french in my dreams, and the worst part is that 'dream me' can understand it! Also my brother who is older than me is the same except he also speaks french in his sleep.
I learned I have aphantasia through dreaming. I didn’t realize until a few years ago ( I’m 21) that others can visualize when they aren’t asleep. I just assumed the idea of “picture the bat hitting the ball” was metaphorical as a kid( didn’t take away from my ability to hit dingers). I was talking to my sister a few years back and and she said she was overlaying what she was seeing in her mind with the real world. She was able to essentially project any visualization in her mind into real life and said it was indistinguishable from our real surroundings. When she told me this, it completely threw me off. I was honestly kind of upset that I was unable to recall memories or picture what I’m thinking with the same visualization technique she was using. She was just as confused though and kept asking me how I was able to think. The best way I could describe it is in thoughts/ideas. If you think of the idea of Justice it wouldn’t necessarily go along with a picture for those who can visualize and I definitely don’t register it by visualizing, so this is the closest way I could help somebody understand how I think all the time with non-visual thinking.
Well, the picture doesn't look like reality. Your sisters is either special or exaggerating. You have to really concentrate to uphold it and cant really make up details
@@xx_gamer_xx8315 i almost think she has the complete opposite of me (hyperphantasia) as she said she can project an apple onto the dash of a car and see every detail. I made sure to ask if she could see the reflection of the light, the tiny perforations, and any other minute details of an apple. She told me she could see all of the above and just about perfectly if she focused on maintaing the projection. I’ve had intercourse with plenty of other people and so far I’ve found that most people( about 92% I’ve come across so far) can produce visual images in their minds but can’t project to the degree my sister can. The other 8% I talked to about it had aphantasia as well.
@@xx_gamer_xx8315There's different levels of being able to visualize things in your mind and it's different for everyone, and apparently I can't spell today.
My audiovisual imagination is profoundly vivid, I guess you could call it hyperphantasia? But what I visualize is distinctly in some other “place” and not overlayed on my real vision. Like having a third eye, but it sees what’s in your mind rather than what’s in the outside world. I can kind of overlay things like that, but it’s still as if it’s on a different layer in front of my vision, so even if I imagine a realistic object, there’s still a clear distinction from that and what I’m physically seeing. Think sort of like HUD elements in a videogame, you can see them clearly, and even if they’re drawn to look “realistic”, it’s still clear that they don’t physically exist in the game world
this was an incredibly entertaining and insightful look into dreams (I love dreams they’re so cool). the running Tom joke had me laughing out loud nearly every time. u got a new subscriber bro
owo what's this? a high quality youtuber talking about the intersection between science and philosophy? I must have been blessed by the algorithm gods to find you
I am taking a break from weed (you don't usually dream when going to bed high). Now that it has been a month roughly since I last smoked I am now starting to have these super realistic dreams like I've never had before. It is becoming more night by night and I am slowly becoming more conscious of the fact that I am dreaming. Mostly it's anxiety stuff like dreams where I crash my car because the brakes fail or I wake up and the sky is lit up like some AI image and we're being invaded by aliens. After playing a lot of Escape from Tarkov I have dreams where I am in a gunfight and I run out of ammo and have to find another weapon to keep surviving. It's always those anxiety scenarios where I have to find a solution to a problem. I agree that dreams are there to prepare us for future problems and help us cope with real life anxiety.
I once had a dream where I was in class doing very VERY boring work and really didn’t want to do it, and then I suddenly realised it’s a dream and started flying but the the teacher told me to sit down and I somehow lost all control of my dream and flew back
I love the parallels between dreams and A.I. image/video generation, like nonsense words or letters that aren't letters or the off look or constant shifting of faces that belong to people you know. Have you noticed hands in dreams?
I think dreams are the parts of the day that you don't focus on as much. Like if I acknowledge something in a multifaceted way, like I think about it, then I think about thinking about it, it wont be in my dreams. Even by relating it to my dreams, like saying "please don't be in my dream," it has no chance of showing up. I've been doing this for years after watching scary shows and it works 100% of the time. I think your brain weeds out the things that happen throughout your day, that you dont think about very much and includes them in your dreams in order to re evaluate them.
very high quality video! I saw your account name, I see the 86 and think "86K subs, not bad" but then my eyes keep moving and I don't see the K... It's only 86!?!?!?! I hope you keep growing bro
@@this.science just keep doing what you're doing and you wont have to hope. biggest things are community interaction and upload consistency. also would recommend linking several types of social media and pushing posts to all of them. making shorts is the best way to get views on youtube right now too.
STORY TIME HURRAAA!! alr so when i was young i drew very badly. like literal pieces of shit. in one dream when i was 5, i saw that i drew a proper face of a girl, and i woke up, remembered it vividly and drew it. its been my artstyle ever since tbh. so dreams arent useless, they're actually very helpful.
This is why I roll my eyes when people attempt to tell me dreams aren’t real. There is so much evidence that we leave our bodies and go somewhere else when we dream. People have shared dreams and they both confirm they both remember sharing the same dream. The current science on dreams simply cannot explain this phenomenon at all. Also, lots of inventions have been invented from a dream. How can that be? The fact is science does not fully understand dreaming. We still have so much to learn about what happens and why.
The weird part about dreams for me is how you can just sort of 'know' some things. Like, it doesn't have to be related to anything in the real world. You could imagine that children were originally cats and turned into humans as they grew up, and your mind would just accept that as a fact. It really makes me wonder how many things we just make up and our mind just doesn't question them.
perfect point to make a relatable connection to someone who doesn't understand human perception is so damn malleable.
Sounds like politics
@@themouseryKilling the imagination kills individualistic free thought which in turn gives the collective thought process more importance as a society. You are your own world and experience things differently from every other person but when we experience any phenomena outside whats considered the norm often we will all experience it differently because everyone’s imagination is at different levels. We need to accapt that we shouldn’t redicule free thought to the point that censors people from thinking about things that are harmless. Instead we should foster a world of free thinking where we can use our imagination and start to use the tools and formulas we have at our disposal as a civilization to create a better world for ourselves and the entirety of Earth.
Could be the brain locking you so you don't wake up
yeah i once woke up and thought my tortoise had slid out of his shell and was about to go downstairs to help him get back in because i had a dream about it, after a bit i realised thats not even possible because their shell is literally a part of them
on another occasion I had a dream where my friend was just asleep on my floor, woke me up, and then got up and said I'm going home and left, then I fell asleep again, when I woke up I just accepted that had happened when they hadn't even visited and it took me a while to realize none of that happened
weird thing is i dont have lucid dreams either, my dreams are very distant and when im dreaming i feel as though im just recalling a foggy memory
Lucid dreaming is what intrigues me the most because it's something entirely on another level compared to normal un/semi conscious dreams. When I first learned how get inside them, the near indistinguishable resemblance to waking reality and having all 5 senses intact with full consciousness and control changed my life forever. I have a feeling in the future some breakthroughs may finally be made when we discover more about human consciousness.
It's just dreaming.
@@mikemondano3624 It is just dreaming. And it is fascinating.
Lucid dreaming is truly an amazing phenomenon. I've had quite a few and to be able to be completely aware in a dream where you can do literally whatever you want, is surreal. It's remarkable what the brain is capable of and I agree with your point about the breakthroughs that will follow once we learn more about the nature of consciousness
@@tyler1655 Yeah, great. You can also do the same thing sitting in a chair and wide awake.
Yeah it is odd. You're normal run of the mill dreams are generated by the parts of your brain that make up your subconscious, less than controllable, brain activity. It's like the programs running in the background while everything else is turned off.
When you lucid dream, however, it's like everything else is turned back on, but instead of being awake and all like you normally should, you're just asleep and viewing your dreams cognizant of what they actually are, even to the extent that you can manipulate it heavily.
What really fascinates me is how we sense time in a dream. I often have those dreams that feel like hours or days have gone, when in reality i just had a 15 min nap.
yessss that's one of the most surreal parts for me, and i wake up so confused (also your sparkle pfp is the bomb)
(I copy and pasted this response from another comment I left about a guy interested how dreams know to end. His example was with a stick of dynamite going off, perfectly in sync with a thunderclap waking him up. I thought you would find it fascinating.)
This is probably because your brain already fucks with your perception of time. It makes it up, skips forward, rewinds. You instantly forget mindless repetitive tasks of routine, to the point of getting concerned if you actually did them. You glance at the clock, for its second hand to waver in place for far longer than a second. You spend your time engaged in a task and hours fly by. You spend your time staring at the clock, and it crawls.
Your brain could very well just have kept going, but noticed the lightning, and moved events around. Sped up the dream by 10x to get to the most convenient stopping point, like an explosive thunderclap. Our brains want to make sense, to a degree. They like logic. Abruptly stopping a flow of consciousness like a dream is distressing. Its snapping from one reality to another. Without a good segue, it really wants that transition to be slow. Dream ends, no memories, blank consciousness, return behind your eyelids. You only snap awake when your ready. If your not ready, your brain wants to make something up fast. Otherwise it makes the transition even worse. TNT exploding is scary, but it follows the continuity of the waking world without needing anything elaborate. Like a sudden thunderstorm in your dream.
@@pauldeddens5349 Omg thank you so much for this. I think this is somewhat same with that falling feeling that we get when we are about to wake up and the brain somehow makes it makes sense in the ongoing dream. In my case it's always stepping on a wet/slippery surface or missing a step on a staircase.
@@laineysays You know, I experience that seldomly in my dreams. Whenever that happens, I wake up with my heart beating fast as if I actually missed a step and fell down on the stairs. That's how I always felt about it.
@@true-dark-mind9681 Yes that's exactly the same for me too. Like missing a step, followed by that free-falling sensation.
I think dreams are just the imagination on autopilot. When you are really tired, when you think of something with eyes closed, it gets more vivid.
most likely, neurons just need to be fired every so often so while your asleep they're popping off randomly and making weird shit happen.
Well, that's tricky, I'm one of those people that sometimes sleep with their eyes open, obviously I'm not conscious of it but many people have told me I do open them at some point apparently
@@sicksock435446 Is reality - at least as we perceive - just eletric signals in our brains?
this feels right to me. when you're in the process of falling asleep, you almost have "semi-dreams" where your mind goes at light speed with different thoughts and scenarios. they arent as real or sensory as dreams, just passing thoughts you become aware of when you get woken up. then dreams are when you're fully asleep. its also crazy how good that partially asleep state feels to be in. i think the key to all this is DMT actually, and the fact our brain releases some when we are about to sleep.
FR. i feel like when youre drifting into sleep, you go autopilot. i always think of like scenarios before sleeping, like to help me think of new lore for my OCs or smth, but then it goes on autopilot and suddenly a random character eats cheese or some other random thing?? i feel like if i dont become conscious again, i drift into sleep. but if i randomly turn off autopilot, im like "wait what? why am i thinking of cheese?" and reset the scenario bc it got messed up 💀 there are times where my autopilot made my chars say the most nonsensical things and i only realise how ridiculous it sounds once i "regain consciousness"
it gets weirder when you dream something that ends up happening in real life that same day. has happened to me on a few occasions where i have a vivid dream that i just shrug off, but then that same day i find myself experiencing the situation i dreamt of almost exactly. taught me to pay closer attention to my dreams
Same here. It's actually helped me make better choices in those situations. I had a dream where my old boss was upset about a project I hadn't finished. In the dream, I was overly defensive and I didn't get my valid reasons across.
2 months later, I'm in his office having the exact conversation, and then he gets to the question I was waiting for: "So, why isn't it done yet?".
I calmly explained why, and he came around and realised he was delaying the project (which was why I was overly defensive in the dream). Trippy stuff.
this happens to me too, and i have also experienced dreaming through someone else's pov that was actually happening in the same moment i was sleeping. it's insane. its called extrasensory perception. I want to solve it one day using physics
For me, I had a dream about my friend. A mutual friend and repeated dreams. It took 2 years but I married him. When I first met my husband through a mutual group, I had no interests. he was an unshaven, long haired dirty shoed, week long same shirt wearing military guy. Everything against my taste. A month later after my first dream, we happen to show up just him and I at the bar waiting for friends. We talked for an hour, and I was like “you are the man of my dreams”. He spoke bear fluent arabic, Iraqi arabic! He had learned in military and serving with Iraqis also, which my brother served in Iraqi Army. Another year goes by after seeing him with countless women who could care less about him and finally we have a moment where we realize we should start dating, another year we are married. 7 years now. I have fallen in love with him multiple times, and have had multiple dreams of him where I wake up and want to melt into him even though I can’t remember what the dream was about exactly. I watched him with different women weekly for a year while crushing on him, yet I never have had a negative dream of him with another women like my friends have had of there husband’s and say it made them depressed for a week. I really thank God for him, and do not want to waste such a beautiful and pure man. I would live in a box with him if I had to, but I know in the worst times, he always figures it out. I always try to empower him, even when he makes mistakes.
I love when that happens I swear it’s actually saved my life a few times..
Brother that's just deja vu
"I decided my door wasn't locked" is the most quintessential lucid dream experience for me. I think there's some ambiguity about what qualifies as a lucid dream. Like I know some people who say they always lucid dream because they're always aware that they're dreaming, but they've never had the power to control it. But for me, it's the experience of just going "Oh, this is all in my head, so I can just make things up."
Yes! That is why I can’t lucid dream, that feeling of being out of control scares me to my core and honestly feels like the closest thing I can imagine to death.
I really don't understand that cause when I have lucid dreams, I just end up kind of realizing it's not real but I still go with the story without being in control or I just become so conscious that I wake up. Although I'll try to control my dreams next time it happens
@@nebd1760 Yeah I feel like I'd call that only like a half-lucid dream… or maybe that's a lucid dream, and we need a new word to distinguish it from the kind of lucid dream where you gain control. good luck in your endeavors!
@@nebd1760 same thing happens to me in almost all my dreams. i realize that i'm dreaming, but i don't realize the fact that hey, maybe i could do things differently if i tried
Does forcing yourself to wake up count as lucid dreaming? I had an experience like that, once. It started out as a regular dream - a nightmare, as a matter of fact - where I heard noises from my kitchen similar to a cat scratching it's food bags (my irl cat tended to do that often to get my attention, so that wasn't anything unsual). However, for some reaason, in this dream, these noises seemed...off to me. Like, I had this uncanny, uncomfortable feeling that it wasn't my cat, but someone (or more like something) that wasn't supposed to be there. I started to slowly, anxiously make my way torwards the kitchen, but right before I could turn the corner and see what kind of creature was making the noise, I became consious I was in a dream, and immediatly went like "WAIT WTF, *why* am I going *torwards* the monster, this is a *terrible* idea! Wake up, wake up, wake up-" and then I woke up. Later figured that had to be a lucid dream. Kind of salty that I forced myself to wake up instead of controlling the dream and ABSOLUTELY *DESTROYING* the monster, though I suppose that could have just been survival instinct: I'm innately below average in most physical qualities, (strenght, speed, stamina etc), putting me at a huge disadvantage in real life physical combat, so it makes sense my brain's first instinct was to "flee" (aka wake myself up before encountering the monster) rather than to fight. Regardless, it was a super interesting experience!
the weirdest thing about dreaming is how you know things you never learned irl, like seeing a dream where you're a college professor giving a lecture on a subject you're completely clueless on irl, but everything you say makes sense and is the only thing you fail to remember when you wake up. happened to me once and i woke up thinking "i knew a fact in my dream that i don't actually know and i can't really remember it to fact check it".
I’ve had dreams where I can speak an entirely different language
thats how i learned the word paleontology
Reminds me of a few lucid dreams I've had where I purposely examined my surroundings to see how much detail is in my dreams eg. opening up drawers to see whats inside....always wake up remembering there was lots of detail, but not the detail/object themselves
ugh yes!! i dont know how many dreams ive had at this point where im reading an incredibly entertaining book and then i wake up and remember nothing of what the book was about, just the feeling that it was so amazing T_T
I had a dream like that, but I remembered it clearly. I was just spouting nonsense as the teacher. I felt horribly bad when I woke up for teaching the fake students such things.
When we are awake, our brains are simulating a representation of the outside world. Dreaming is the same thing that happens when you are awake: Neurons fire, filling in the details of experience, and simulating an internal reality.
hmm. Interesting. This is the least fanciful comment I've seen on scrolling down this list of peoples experiences.
i thonk its more complicated thna dat
I've had lucid dreams on a couple occasions and whenever I mention to the people in the dream that they are in fact not real, they always got really angry with me. Like I wasn't supposed to know that it's a dream
This is terrifying and I shouldn't be reading this at 4 in the morning
Most nights that I dream, at one point during the dream I will realise that I am asleep and dreaming , I have the same thing if I tell people that it’s a dream, they will get very angry and attack me. This is why I take medication so I don’t dream anymore😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@justarandomkid3275 you shouldnt take medication to not have dreams. you must realize that you are in control and they cannot hurt you. its scary but you have to at least try, you are giving power to them by hiding. you can do it
@@justarandomkid3275 I too experienced that. But when they attacked me, i just imagine myself fly away, and fly I go
Does it end in a big DBZ level fight? Cuz that happened to me once. Though the more I think about it, the more I feel like that was only a semi-lucid dream for me.
I love finding great channels before they blow up
Don’t make me blush 🤭
Me too haha
He definitely has great potential
@@this.science i think you are a big youtuber trying to grow a new channel undercover as a challange.the amount of editing and scripting your videos need are insane. i subbed early lol .
Yeah he seems very polished and experienced
Same, this channel is gonna be huge next year
2:11 "it was revealed to me in a dream" is actually a reliable source now
I saw a post about someone asking how to cite a dream for their paper.
Always has been
So Twin Peaks
there's an indian mathematician that solved mathematical equation because a goddess in his dream showed him the formula
the weird think in dreams is that you never blink once and you never use your phone, it's like anything that has many details doesn't show up in dreams
I've used my phone but never blinked. I used to think you couldn't use a phone or a computer in a dream though
For a period of time I remember having 2 to 3 dreams where I took my phone out and actually recorded a video in Snapchat 😂.
In one of them I went to a house (I think it was the one we live in or another familiar house), I climbed a ladder or just went up a staircase until I reached the top, there was a dark room with furniture all lit with yellow/golden light, I took my phone out and took a video in Snapchat and then I wanted to send it to my sister I think, but the recorded video was blurry and distorted and it appeared to lag behind as well, I tried to record another video but the same thing happened, then I just felt scared and somehow found an elevator. When the doors of the elevator opened once I reached the bottom floor, something just charged towards me out of nowhere and it was very very fast, I immediately woke up scared 😂
I use my phone quite regularly in my dreams actually and always have.
i had a dream where i was writing commands in minecraft
This reminds me of the time I was writing a story, and after I went to sleep, the main character came to me in the dream and we sat around a fire together, eating fish. They described a few errors I've made in the writings compared to their sheet, and gave me advice on how to write them better. After taking time to apply their criticism the next day, I've found that writing them became a lot more fun, and others enjoyed their characters a lot more.
One of the coolest things to do with lucid dreams is summoning characters or people you know and seeing what they have to say. That said if you're ready for hard truths you could always try summoning yourself and having a real 'heart to heart' with a mental mirror.
@@sicksock435446 It's very rare for me to have lucid dreams.
All of us have seen fictional characters in dreams so this is very interesting from an artist perspective.
My dreams have literally never helped me sort something out in real life... whyyyyyyyy
i really wanna try this, but for some reason im afraid of lucid dreaming and i had one recently. instead of thinking logically like i was awake, i was already filled with anxiety and tried to wake myself up, leading to a false awakening... but the thing is, i thought i was actually awake, so i wrote down my dream (like i would actually do) and lost lucidity. then it turned into a very messed up and gory dream, tho it wasnt a nightmare. then i ACTUALLY woke up.
but i did have multiple dreams of my main OC (which is also my pfp lol) doing weird things like a singing competition?? 💀
I'm a sucker for finding misspelled words and I really appreciate that you go out of your way to misspell every word you can that it makes sense to misspell. Genius level subliminal engagment
Maybe he just sucks at spelling
plot twist he doesn't know how to spell
It actually drives me nuts that the words are not spelled correctly 😂 but interesting take!
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@@hannahdakota63 But, kan u stil reed it?
While your body/brain rests, your consciousness is not needed and plays.
A top tier take
That is a very cynical and inaccurate portrayal of "play" which is one of the most important methods of acquiring, practicing, and using skills. Play requires intense focus, dedication, and all aspects of cognition. It is not for "not needed" time.
(The body actually requires almost no rest. It takes 12 minutes for a muscle to recover from exhaustion. The heart recovers between beats. Sleep is a mental process accompanied by endocrine events.)
You could say that the purpose of sleep is for your body to rest, but some ideas I've wondered about might also suggest something a little different. Conscious thought and behavior presumably takes up energy, and it seems that, when I am paying attention to more things and am more aware and mentally engaged, more of that energy is being used up. Yet, I also find that, at night, the capacity I have to pay attention to things seems to shrink, and I also become a bit more forgetful. It seems like I am able to exercise less control over my mind in these late hours, but I also notice that things still continue to happen in my mind, even though it's not as directed by my deliberate intentions.
In this state of mind, it can feel more like I'm just watching TV channels that a sibling is flicking through. Sometimes, this chaotic and somewhat spontaneous unraveling of my thoughts and recent memories brings insights and knowledge, helping me notice connections and find explanations for things I experienced but didn't understand quite as well. I think this might relate to or actually be the process that is called memory consolidation.
I heard that this sort of mental phenomenon of memory consolidation helps us learn, and it happens during sleep as well. For it to happen, the necessary condition can be a less present awareness where your mind is more on autopilot and seemingly not driven as much by you. I get the impression that the purpose of sleep is to get into this state of mind where our brains make more sense of the experiences we've had, and it could simply be that it requires your body to go dormant so that it can allocate more mental and physical resources to this process.
TL;DR: Maybe sleep is just your brain shutting down your body so that your brain can do the paperwork and make better sense of all the stuff that happened to you that day.
@@mikemondano3624you are wrong
@@mikemondano3624I’d have to disagree on nearly all counts there, playing is just simply having fun. After an intense workout, it takes longer than 12 minutes to fully recover, stairs after doing leg day can feel nearly impossible. When I first started working construction as an electrician, after all the stairs I had to climb all day, I got out of bed the next day and fell over because my leg muscles were so wiped out.
As far as sleep goes, you absolutely do need sleep or your brain will eventually physically shut down from exhaustion. I think the longest anyone has gone without it (on record) is around 11 days.
I do agree with the heart, if it didn’t recover rapidly, I don’t think any of us would be here to talk about it.
One thing that always confounds me is how your perception or "view" of a dream can come in all kinds of different forms and switch between them on a dime several times throughout the dream.
Using my own dreams as an example, I can recall several that changed from being in first-person view, to being in third-person view like I was watching a movie starring myself, to looking through the eyes of someone else entirely. I've also had dreams that have been depicted as if I was actually watching a movie or playing a video game, even having a visible screen frame bordering my field of vision. Probably the most interesting ones I've had were ones that were depicted like an animated film or simply a series of drawings, paintings, or some other art medium. One of my most memorable dreams played out like a dramatic prologue to a fantasy movie, being narrated in verse with a sort of slideshow of woodcut images. I don't recall the entire poem, but it did inspire me to try and "finish" it eventually.
I had my most memorable lucid dream at 7 years old. it was about me going home from school with mom and a few other adults (her friends). once we reached home, i turned to mom and told her that we're all actually in my dream and that i can prove it. her friends just laughed, but she got curious and asked me to do it. i told her to take me by the hand and assured her that we will now both wake up and she will find herself in the bed next to me. she took my hand, i closed my eyes shut, then opened them and.. found myself alone in the bed. i got so upset that i cried. it had turned out that she woke up a few minutes before i did and had went to the kitchen to make breakfast. im 18 now, yet i still cry whenever i remember this story lol. r.i.p. mom, love you forever
May she rest well friend
I love that you admit you don't know in the end, it is more satisfying than the other grandiose conclusions that feel cliche at this point on the internet 🤣
what are you yappin bout lil bro
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ya'll both in the replies, pls go back to sleep
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" it is more satisfying than the other grandiose conclusions that feel cliche at this point on the internet " Actually makes you sound like an idiot.
One thing that fascinates me about some dreams. (A rasta in the movie John dies at the end explains this) Say you are having a dream and in that dream someone is about to blow you up with dynamite. When the dynamite explodes you wake up to the thunder and lighting or maybe some other loud bang. Now how did our brain know to time the event so perfectly. One of those things that makes you think about time and how it might really behave.
I believe that u heard the thunder and made up the dream in that second to explain the noise if yk what I mean like dreams have no time.
@@deathjumper2137 yeah i think the same, you hear something loud in the real world and your mind makes up a fitting story in an instant, so it matches, happened to me countless times
I once dreamed that my mother came into my room to ask me something and I was just pissed off and told her to go away, went back to doing whatever I was doing. The dream ended, I woke up at like 1 pm, alone, mom not answering my calls. She gets home, I ask her where she's been and stuff, but she just gave me the silent treatment. After a while she finally told me she came to my room that morning to tell me she was going to see my grandfather and apparently I had a whole conversation with her whilst being asleep telling her to leave me alone and stuff, so she just got upset and left. I concluded my brain somehow simultaniously had a conversation with her while keeping me in my dream state. That was so wierd.
@@chadowchris6419damn
I usually wake up 10-15 seconds before my alarm, before someone calls me, before a noise happens. At first I thought it was strange, but I think I get it now. It's because of the way I remember my sleep that it seems odd. I'm in a state of very light somnolence all throughout, but when a noise happens I become fully awake. It's not that I wake up 10-15 seconds before a noise, it's that I remember the last 10-15 seconds before I'm fully awake. The rest disappears from my memory
I love it when the pink think in my head simulates realities on a whim :)
“Your brain inhibits motor neurons … so you don’t act out your dreams”. As someone who has woken up their sibling bc I was elbowing the absolute sh!t out of my headboard while dreaming of a giant spider pouncing on me, I can attest that this does not always work.
cool
When your brain stem forgets to shut off your body while you're asleep, that's sleep-walking.
When it forgets to turn it back on after you're awake, that's sleep paralysis.
@@narfharder That's interesting. I didn't know that. I wonder if that's also why people "sleep talk"
I have genuinely had at least two instances where I couldn't open my eyes in my dreams. I could raise my eyelids enough to look down, but not forward. I couldn't see in my dream because I was trying to open my eyes in real life while my body fought the effort. I don't know anyway else to put it, but it felt so damn strange.
Yeah I’ve had ones where I climbed onto my sisters bed and stood there, until she screamed and woke up the rest of the family 😅
The strangest aspect of dreams, to me, is that they can let you feel things you can't feel in real life, or that you haven't felt before in any capacity. Like, I now know what it's like to be part of a type of hivemind, which wasn't even about being a brainless drone but rather adding your memory, knowledge and individuality to the hive. Was oddly nice, actually. I also know what it feels like to genuinely fear for your life. That was less nice.
Man, sorrow in dreams are incredibly more impactful than in waking reality.
Reminds me of the sorrow I felt in a dream where I was being forced to kill my older brother
Yeah I've had some experiences in dreams that are literally impossible in real life, it's so weird
i actually had a dream where i was sh0t (this was back when i was still in hs and random mass sh00tings were rampant and a real fear.) i could feel every bit of it..the fear, dread, and then the physical aspect. wow. it was not just in the dream either. when i woke up there was still a radiating warmth/searing pain i can't even describe- except that, it was probably as realistic as my brain could conjure up on a whim. i genuinely believed i had been wounded. pretty crazy to think about
But humans are already apart of a type of hivemind.
Dreams are so interesting to me, especially the part where they can give you new ideas. I’ve gotten melody ideas and had friends tell me funny jokes that I wouldn’t have thought to make. So cool how the subconscious is so mysterious and somehow still a part of us. Also great video mate. Incredible that you managed to get 60K subs in 1 month. The preparation you’ve done before making this channel shows (at least in my eyes), or you’re just insanely cracked lmao
but you couldn't remember the melody, right?
The creativity you get while lucid dreaming is insane, it's like that part of the brain is working at 200%, the hard part is remembering all that stuff when you wake up
@@RustinMarkJandonganSometimes you can if you are fast enough to record it, same with jokes or ideas in general but yeah you have to be quick
I took a class on the brain and dreams are soooo much more interesting with a deeper understanding. “Reality” as we see it isn’t real until our brain uses our senses to confirm its validity. Dreams feel so real because as far as our brain is concerned (Due to our outside senses being turned off) they are are reality. I’m rambling but it’s just so cool I couldn’t help it 😂.
@@ftgodlygoose4718isn't it obvious? You had to go a class to discover it?
Lucid dreaming is weird, because you don't even have to realize you're in a dream. I had a lucid dream when I was younger, and I basically thought "oh, I can control whatever here, cool" and just started lucid dreaming with SpongeBob characters
I love lucid dreaming. I discovered the concept when I was around 11 years old and I’ve figured out how to reliably enter them (try looking at your hands in a dream, they’ll look weird as hell) and it feels exactly like real life, except with console commands enabled. You can do quite literally anything you can imagine.
One of my favorite things to do in my early lucid days was to tell people they’re in a dream, they don’t believe me, and then I do something impossible like make an object appear right in front of them. Sometimes they’re unfazed, sometimes they freak out and everyone tries to attack me, or anything in between. I can also (usually) force-wake myself even if I’m not lucid, which is pretty useful if I find myself in a nightmare. Dreams are extremely interesting.
Edit: that all said, it’s 1:30 AM here and I wish I could friggin fall asleep more easily…..
@@Davidee_631 the easiest way to do it (in my opinion) is to do a “reality check”. Basically something you do regularly IRL and ask yourself “am I dreaming?”
My favorite is to look at my hands, they look normal IRL obviously, but they look distorted in my dreams. After doing it once or twice a day for a week or two, I started doing it subconsciously in my dreams as well. As soon as I see my hands, I immediately recognize I’m in a dream, and become lucid.
There are more methods if you want to become lucid sooner than that, but I’m at work rn so I can’t write all those methods at the moment. But the reality check method is the most consistent for me, I’m lucid most of the times that I dream because of it.
@@Davidee_631 also, there’s a channel called “Giz Edwards” who talks about lucid dreaming and methods a lot, I’d highly recommend if you want to learn more. That’s where I learned a lot about inducing lucid dreams
It's so weird to me that, when I'm in a nightmare, if the nightmare's "theme" is something like physical violence, social anxiety, someone's death, etc AKA real and tangible things, I almost never realize i'm dreaming and thus can't force myself awake. But whenever the theme is something otherworldly, like a psychological horror game, where the content relates to ghosts, creatures, the sense of uneasiness from an unknown presence etc. I almost always realize "Okay, this shit's a nightmare. Time to bounce, fuck this."
Useful in a way, but I'd really like to be able to wake up from all those nightmares where I get stabbed or shot to death (I actually feel physical pain when that happens while I'm dreaming)
@@doomerbloomer6160 yeah I get what you mean, I had an absurdly realistic dream where someone broke into my apartment and said “you know what, I am absurdly pissed off” (not a direct quote but it was something like that) and shot me in the heart. Won’t go into too much detail here but I felt the pain and felt myself dying, reflected on my life, held out hope that an ambulance would show up or something, and then made peace with the fact that this is it. I’m going to die, and there is nothing that can be done about it besides accepting my fate. And then I woke up.
I can’t force wake from *every* dream, but that one absolutely gave me a renewed love for life. And led to me checking my vitals to make sure I’m still alive. Lol. That one gave me a lot to think about.
@@Davidee_631 my biggest tip is wake up early (like 2 hours earlier than u should) and then get back to sleep again. You know that drowsy feeling you don't want to get out of bed? You have to feel that and sleep while trying to maintain your consciousness. The thing is, you'll easily get back to sleep without fully losing your consciousness. Just imagine what you want to lucid dream and you won't realize you're already dreaming. It's hard to explain but this is the best thing I could do.
To me, the weirdest thing about dreams is when they try to send you a direct message or when I outright dream of a future event IN DETAIL that I've had no interest in knowing before. Both are such weird experiences and always fascinate me, like seeing my body, thoughts and actions through a flying crow's body or walking through a nonexisting land that I somehow actually know or getting a job in a specific position 3 years before actually getting into a university of said field or actually interacting with people you never knew or met through your dreams that you are about to meet the NEXT DAY.
Dreams are very fascinating honestly
I know right. Sometimes I have dreams of future events. Deja vu. Scientists say it's just your memory conflating your dreams with something that happened previously. You think you're dreaming the future, but you're just dreaming of a similar thing based on what you've previously experienced. But that isn't the case. I often dream of future events, to the point where I can predict the words and emotions of people around me. They are so accurate that I can't describe them as anything but magical. Sometimes these "deja vu" experiences happen for something I know I've never done before.
I've had something similar happen multiple times. The last time it happened I got scared and basically fucked up a situation that could of been great but ig I'll never know. Also, I had one as a kid where I broke my nose in a dream, and then it happened months later, the exact same way.
A deja-vu is just a delay between your vision and the part where your brain processes images, its been a known fact for years now@@mooredaxon
Future predicting dreams are honestly very interesting. I know some people who've had them- my sister dreamed of the exact location our apartment and, due to saying outright that happened in her dream, was able to move into the apartment. One of my close irl friends had a dream a long time ago about sitting in class building a fake mini-rover as someone sat next to them eating pringles- that someone was me. I myself have had a predictive dream- the beta version of the Moss Blanket from Slime Rancher appeared in a dream when I was around 7 years old, even including many slimes from the game including ones such as hunter slimes. It's all rather intriguing
@@mooredaxonsometimes deja vu makes you misremember dreams so that you think you already dreamed the situation you're in even though you didn't
this.
this is my vibe.
this is the kind of content i wanna see on my youtube feed
educational sarcastic absurt videos that cut the bullshit and explain random stuff that make more sense of the world :)
Dont forget tom hiddleston
@@derkhus271 at this point i dont even question why the internet is obsessed with tom hiddleston,
but yeah
@@sknfmsmr hes hot
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@@derkhus271 yep
Started wanting to understand how dreams work. Left halfway through to understand how sewing machines work. I’m so lonely.
i feel called out😂😭
I love how no one talks about the fact that we know so much about stuff like the origin of the universe and how we ended up where we are today, and yet we don’t 100% know anything about the action we spend a fourth of our life doing.
Could maybe be explained by this; we can do whatever we want with planets. However, when it comes to experimentation on humans, ethics limit the rate of knowledge we can gain. Ultimately, if we were allowed to just stuff some sensors into an unlucky test subject's brain we might know more about sleeping in no time, but that's obviously completely out of the question
@@ewanarends5512 Nah, plenty of unethical shit has been done surrounding the brain and sleep within the past couple hundred years. We really just don't know anything as the brain is a million times more complex than the brain could hope to comprehend.
the Bible
we don't know how universe came to existence, we will never know
but in future we will know much about sleeping
Amen@@jesterdewit478
The weirdest thing to me about dreams is that ever since AI has been getting better I've noticed some striking similarities between what AI generates and how my dreams look. Watching/ looking at anything AI generated is like looking at a waking dream. It's really unsettling to me. Sometimes it even feels as if part of me is AI and when I'm dreaming this AI part of me is trying to recreate the world from all my memories.
Oh oh wow. That is scarily relatable
The way I see it is that AI art operates similarly to our unconscious (if you could ask it specifically, that is). While dreaming, the uncounscious harnesses unimaginable amounts of information and channels it into something semi-concrete, surreal -- not entirely making sense but still having some hold of it; e.g. you see a dream where gravity is twice as strong or weak than it should be on Earth, but, still, there's the concept of gravity itself, of objects and their weight, and yourself being under its influence, too. AI neuronets, too, process colossal amounts of data and bring out something as coherent as they could. In that sense, you could say, it's not you imitating AI, but rather AI imitating your human unconscious :)
Probably because AI in the state its in now is comparable to an unconscious human brain running rampant with whatever memories happen to be stored there. AI programs are “taught” by feeding them information, or digital memories of a sort, which they then use to derive images from. While you sleep, your brain may be pulling out memories and generating random stuff by combining said memories. We arent even close to a conscious AI that can think for itself like a person can, but when you sleep you’re temporarily shutting off your brain’s ability to process and respond to stimuli. Youre left with whatever’s already there in storage.
AI uses patterns to combine previous existing art into new art, we use patterns to combine previous existing memories into "new" visuals in our dreams.
Does that count as uncanny valley?
There seems to be a link between consiousness, play, and dreams, a lot of animals such as insects and invertibrates, are purely instinct driven and show no signs of play or dreaming. Animals who have a bit more going on in their head but still are very instinct driven such as some fish, still don’t play or dream. But animals who have shown traits that go beyond instincts (puzzle solving, creativity, etc) like bunnies, cats, dogs, and crows show signs of dreaming and play. It could be that one of these three leads to the other two inevitable (dreaming about crazy stuff leads you to think about the world more creatively/being curious and playing leads to your brain being formed in a way which it will dream/all 3 together just are the definition of exiting from pure instincts so they emerge in tandem)
Each of our dream is our own real world... Originally, we don't know what to put there... We agreed to be here to learn about things we can put in our dreams so it will not be blank like before...
the yearning is real
the craziest thing about lucid dreaming to me is what happens when you tell the people in your dream that it is in fact a dream.
for me, i’ve lucid dreamed only 2 or 3 times in my entire life. after the first time, and after seeing stuff online about other people’s experience with telling the people in their dreams, it became a goal of mine.
the next time i had a lucid dream, almost as soon as i realized, i got a little too excited and started yelling at everyone that they weren’t real and that they’re in a dream, almost like i was rubbing it in. turns out, this maybe wasn’t the best idea. everyone stopped. they all just stared at me. they had this creepy look on their faces, like they were slightly mad. it was super creepy.
the excitement over the fact that i was lucid dreaming woke me up pretty soon after this, but i would’ve liked to stay and find out if the people in my dream would have ever gone back to acting normal or not.
That's something I've noticed with a lot of people that mention to people in their dreams that they aren't real. There is a universal reaction from those people that they get displeased, angry, or even violently furious when you tell them they're just figments of your imagination. It's almost like you broke a cardinal rule of dreaming.
I once told a dude in a dream that he wasn't real and he legit peaced out. Like he just phased out of existance because if he didn't have to be there then he wasn't going to be.
That said if you get into lucid dreaming then summoning 'figments' of people and talking to them can be awesome. I've had pretty profound revelations about friends and acquaintances which my subconscious apparently picked up on but my waking mind never realised. OR you can just summon jesus and the devil and watch them hash it out.
Also summoning 'yourself' is also probably going to be a memorable occasion...
After reading this comment, i experience the same thing. I tell every people on my dream that they're not real, and u know what, they just laugh at me and just walk casually.
@@sicksock435446 that is really interesting way one could deal with conflicts with friends, not 100% but a cool experiment, i def wanna try
@@uberschnilthegreat22 nah, its because you expect it to happen. if youve read of those stories, its bound to happen, even if you dont remember it consciously. if you expect them to be normal, they will be, because other people who have never heard of this tell their chars they're in a dream and everyone shrugs it off. ive only gone lucid a few times, but saying things are a dream out loud js led me to 1. wake up or 2. get sucked into the dream void/the state between waking up or sleeping.
I believe it's our brains way of protecting us from going crazy sitting in darkness for 8 hrs a day
this is a way better theory than i have ever read about dreams😂🤓☝
Most likely dreams are just 'brain static'. The body needs to rest for 8ish hours but the brain (specifically neurons) need to keep firing to stay healthy. While dreams might sometimes contain poingnent or relevant content, thats ignoring the other 99.99% of dreams which are complete nonsense.
@@sicksock435446 you know, I’ve noticed that whenever I put a lot of importance in some skill, say 3 years ago learning how to drive, I’ll have frequent dreams about performing that skill. So dreams might not be as random as we think, and might have function.
I've had many lucid dreams and whenever I would tell people in the dreams your not real, your a figment of my imagination, you are a representation of my brain and how it preseves you they would have weird responses like one just quietly said 'I know' another just ignored me completely, another started crying and one got angry claiming thet were real
I’ve only really been fully aware in a dream a handful of times. And on those few occasions the other person would either shush me, ignore me, or my dream would end completely… it’s confusing
Outer-body dreams are the craziest to me. Seeing YOURSELF from a floating perspective never fails to make me wake up TERRIFIED. It makes me feel uncomfortably seen...
What always perplexes me as well is the fact that the mind can simulate things that aren't at all possible, but FEEL possible. Like flight, retaining that weightlessness you feel in pools or when going down a sharp hill, but your brain sustains that experience to mimic what it could feel like. Breathing water but still functioning has always thrown me off, because it's a feeling I literally can't describe. I'm sure it's terrifying, realistically. Even then, I've had a dream SO intense that it woke me up from a purely unexplainable full-body feeling. I literally can't explain it because I've never felt anything else in my life to compare it to. It wasn't pain, pleasure, muscular paralysis, drunkenness, nothing- it was its own separate unique experience. I'm also a lucid dreamer, and have actively taken myself out of uncomfortable situations sometimes by waking up, but then I would go back to sleep to start right where I left off simply because I was curious about the outcome.
Man that Tom Hiddleston joke was so funny, and it was even funnier the 8th time!
I sometimes think about just how precisely complex are the NPCs in my dreams. Is the simulation complex enough for me to consider them different entities from me? Are they me? I can't read their minds, can't tell what they're going to do, can't make them do something, yet they still act intelligently. Creepy.
My theory is that dreams are built on vague impressions that are then “filled in” by the conscious mind afterwards. Instead of simulating all the complex behaviors and internal components of a person, it connects the concept of a person with the concept of an action and fills in the rest with random noise.
My theory is that dreams are built on vague impressions that are then “filled in” by the conscious mind afterwards. Instead of simulating all the complex behaviors and internal components of a person, it connects the concept of a person with the concept of an action and fills in the rest with random noise.
My theory is that the subconscious already knows the patterns of familiar people (their voice, gestures, character, etc.) and simply follows the algorithm, just like the predictive text on mobile keyboards.
calling it npcs is funny asf but also stupid, theyre just figments of your imagination/subconsciousness
Both and sometimes both at once. Then again consciousness is 1 thing anyway so both all the time
schizophrenic dreams are something else, i have frequent dreams of getting shot, being on the other end of the gun, home invasions, getting followed, lots of scary shit i’ve dreamed about & woke up thanking god
I remember having a dream about getting stabbed and I felt the pain after I woke up, even though I have no idea what being stabbed feels like.😭
Sometimes we have to Turn away from Science, to a Philosophical way of thinking to give us the Illusion of an answer.
Well said, man. Well said.
As smeone who goes between having lucid dreams and normal ones, I posit this:
We sleep in cycles, where we go from deep sleep to light sleep that are on average about 1.5 hours in length. REM is the period at the end of a sleep cycle where we experience the lightest sleep and also where we experience dreams (This is exemplified by the fact that when you are woken from sleep during REM you feel rested, and when you wake up in any other phase you feel dogshit tired).
Since REM is the lightest form of sleep, our conscious brains are turned on minimally. We can form memories and experience dreams during these times, and it is because we are ever so slightly awake.
What a lucid dream is, compared to a regular dream, is simply a scale of awakeness during REM. The more control you have over the dream, the more awake you are. At the most awake end of the scale is simple thought/ "daydreaming."
Dreams only have meaning because humans prescribe meaning to everything we experience. Dreams do not necessarily have a purpose (much like life itself), but we can give them purpose. And if that isn't the most human thing ever, then I don't know what is :)
Do you happen to get bad sleep?
This is a cool comment! Most of the time when i am dreaming i manage to gain consciousness but every time i try to control anything i just wake up almost instantly but the feeling i get is also very similar to when i close my eyes and imagine anything visual since that is useful for drawing and such. The moment i wake up from a conscious dream if i close my eyes and imagine anything visual again the image is super clear as if i was still in a dream but the more i wake up the more blurry it becomes until it is just a simple and awake attempt at visualization. So to me it really does feel like a scale exists like the one you mentioned.
I hope some of this makes sense
@@dumbdwei1120 Makes total sense! Glad to hear that this isn't a solitary experience.
Thank you. Not one person ever told me what is even lucid dream. I always thought it is in the middle of a sleep. Unlike daydreaming I assume Lucid dream is you have control of everything but the script is already there and the movie is set, while daydreaming is you doing all the work; scripting, directing etc etc. Am I correct or wrong?
@@Verårtu I would say more so that in lucid dreaming it feels like a script is already there but it isn't.
When you're daydreaming, things need to make sense so you put effort into a cohesive string of thoughts.
While you're lucidly dreaming, stuff is still nonsense like in a regular dream. There is no script, but it still feels cohesive because your brain cannot reason and argue with validity when you're only slightly conscious.
So, you just go with the normal flow of the dream and alter things when you want to and then your experience the the ways that your actions change the course of the dream.
@@necroseus So you telling me I've always can and already does so lucid dreaming!?! I always thought it was so complicated but I've been doing it naturally... wow
Thank you for clearing this up for me!
I had a dream about a huge mansion that was made up of pieces of the homes I had experienced while awake. It was like fragments of memories stitched together composed by a flood of emotions in the process of re-balancing hormones and brain chemistry.
Dreams are, however, totally ineffable. The moment you try to put one into words, you've lost, altered, and added to comport with language structure. Dreams come from a deep place, the still point, stasis, where talk comes from. Dream analysis and theology have much in common in that neither is ever wrong because neither can ever be verified.
@@mikemondano3624There are more grounded ways of analyzing dreams, for example writing said dream down and pulling apart themes and associating them with memories and the things those memories are associated with ect
@@shadw4701 Dreams can never be understood through analytical methods. They are organic.
@@mikemondano3624ain't that deep
@dyslexicbatnam1350 Only a billion? Are you calling me a gnat? The trouble with memory's "rooms" is that they change every day and can never be found twice in the same place or condition. Memory isn't storage - it's an organic part of the mind always changing. Less than 10% of what we "remember" for 30+ years ago actually happened. The rest satisfies psychological needs.
This is actually gen Z vsauce.
Love it
everytime i'm dreaming and I realize things aren't adding up and end up lucid dreaming, it becomes so much harder to stay in the dream. It's the same feeling as when someone is explaining something important and I keep on zoning out and trying to pay attention, but can't.
As a longtime lucid dreamer the trick is to stay somewhat 'detached', if you push or pull too hard then you wake yourself up. The best tricks are spinning, which lets you 'reset' the dream, and usually makes things way more vivid, and expectation, which is where instead of trying to force things to change or happen, you just kinda 'expect' them to happen and they do.
@@sicksock435446 Wait, is this why when I had a dream, and I realized I might be in a dream, and started going in circles in a small area to test if it feels like dream, I didn't wake up for a while even tho I kinda knew it was a dream? And it actually felt too real?
fr then when u waking up in the real world it feel liek u fallin asleep in the dream world
That's the perfect way to put it.
My dreams have always been very fantastical. Not rooted in reality. And also complete stories. Beginning, middle, end ,even foreshadowing! However recently, they have been becoming more realistic. Now there are people I know, places I know, doing almost normal things. My guess is because I actually spend more time than I used to, thinking about the real world future. ( I am going through the process of applying to colleges.) I also think it’s interesting that when I wake up from dreams I might not remember details of what happened, but the emotion carries through. It’s like, when you walk into a room to do something but can’t remember what is was. The feeling that something important was happening but not being able to reach it. Then sometimes I do remember details and the emotion carries through. One time I dreamt (it’s a long story but this is the end of it) I was with a friend in high school (at the time I wasn’t in high school yet) and all these people pull swords from the lockers and start trying to stab us. I made the swards phase through us for awhile, but I was in the process of waking up and fighting to stay asleep so I could save him. I ended up not being able to keep it up and they stabbed my friend to death. And then I woke up, not with a complete understanding of what happened (and now I knew it was just a dream) but a strange sense of sadness. Not deep loss or anger. Just quiet sadness. Creepy.
Idk how coherent this was I have been up for WAY too long (ironically)
When I was around 10 I used to dream every night for months that I had a family in a house at the top floor of an block of apartments i had never seen before. Every night however we would do new things, I got to know them more and better, and I even started to figure out my way to school from there cause I would go there in my sleep. It got to the point were reality of here and the reality of my dreams were mixed up and I wouldn't know how many days passed in my sleep and how many days passed when I was awake. Finally there was this big fight in my dream family. They all told me I had to leave. I asked them why but sadly i do'n't remember what they said. After that night I never had that dream again. I was devastated. I think i even tried to go back to the apartment in my dream but it was empty. It always freaked me out how detailed the dreams were and I always wondered why and how it happened. So its cool to know science has no clue either.
What the frick!? That's so awesome! Never heard of such a thing happening in dreams before
I'm talking about a robust, deeply sophisticated notion of hallucination. Hallucinations so real you can't distinguish them from reality. We're talking about the kind of hallucinations that are so mesmerizing that... imagine you start imagining you’re a sleeper. You lay there day after day, just dreaming your life away, perfecting the art of snoozing. You dream so hard that one day you wake up and realize, “Wait a minute-I can’t remember the last time I was actually awake!”
You’ve forgotten how to do basic human things, like holding a conversation or remembering where you parked your car. Your biggest accomplishment is figuring out how to nap in various positions-back, side, even upside-down! You find yourself at a party, nodding off in the corner, and everyone’s like, “Look at that dreamer over there!” And you’re thinking, “Yeah, it’s a rough life, but at least my dreams are way cooler than this small talk!”
That’s the kind of power of imagination I’m talking about-where you can drift into a reality where your biggest stress is which dream to follow: the one where you’re flying or the one where you’re in an epic snack battle with your favorite foods. So next time you catch yourself daydreaming, just remember: be careful-too much dreaming and you might end up as the star of your own sleep marathon!
I have nightmares when I need to wake up. I'm either:
1. Sleeping in a bad position where I can't breathe or I'm hurting myself.
2. I need to use the bathroom.
I have good dreams when I have had enough sleep and I'm well rested.
From monitoring these experiences, I think the purpose of a dream is to wake you up. When we solve problems in our dreams, we are anticipating the anxiety of these problems. The dream pushes us to go solve problems.
I think dreams are a great example of how powerful our brains are. Dreams have the potential to create images that we may otherwise be unable to imagine when conscious. Amazing video and very cool channel!
The weird thing is. You're going to read these words on a screen, but is that any different from your brain dreaming it? Like your brain is receiving chemical signals and some part of you which is "you" reads and interprets the meaning. I don't want to come off as a "woah but what is reality" dude, but from a scientific viewpoint, consciousness and experience are kind of fucking crazy if you think about it. There's a big mess of electrochemically reactive cells which are being prodded by sensory cells and that equates to your entire life. Wild.
From my experience everyone has different types of dreams rather it be lucid dreams, disappearing dreams (where you forget them almost instantly), nightmares, hyperrealistic dreams, future sight dreams (where you somehow predict or see the future), rooted dreams (Dreams that you can't seem to forget, they become rooted in your memory which can also be a nightmare) and memory call dreams where you recall something you've learned but forgot that you learned (I was once having a conversation with my philosophy teacher where he asked me if I knew who the first philosopher and since I havent touched philosophy in like 4 years I answered "Aristoteles" cus the name sounded cool and he got frustrated and answered "It's Thales." and after I woke up I remember this interaction and googled it and it sure was the correct answer...).
one time I was trying to fall asleep and my brain made the pun "no whey" and I didn't even remember what it was. I looked it up the next day, its a cheese thing. I have no idea where it came from, I don't remember ever learning about it. Probably from years ago and my brain randomly recalled it to make a pun.
it happens to me that they become nightmares really quick, not in the sense that scary stuff happens, but I start shrinking and compressing, losing control of my body until I start falling into some sort of black void, and when I hit the ground I finally wake up.
thanks for the 3rd definition of telling us that an epiphenomenon is like an easter egg. only then did I actually understand
If you ask me, I think that the reason why dreams seem to be so challenging to understand for science is because they are closely related to how consciousness works in the first place. It is hard to explain because it is our brain going in a state of recovering energy and processing the information collected during the day. And as a result of that process we enter in an altered state of consciousness where abstract and subconscious thought generate life-like scenes. These ones are probably necessary to "conciliate" the subconscious with the conscious aspect of the mind. After finishing that process of "reseting", the brain tries to discard these scenes and that´s why we forget almost everything we dream. Unless it had such a big impact that it "sticks" to our conscious memory.
yeah and gotta say, when you dont sleep stuff gets very freaky
you dont sleep. stuff gets dark and scary. never ever gets good.
its always shadows creeping, eventually actual fears.
look at stories about people that took methamphetamines' and stayed up for 10 days or longer.
Meth doesnt really look like it causes the psychosis. ITs caused by not sleeping. people that sleep while taking it, never seem to exp it.
they would say common things, like I saw my family members dead in a grid all over the place, they would track me with their eyes.
feelings of intense fear.
Ive stayed up for days and days too. and IVe had simialr things, tho not bodies. shadows, that after a while turn into a tornado that circles you. gets freaky.
and then intense fear that is so primal you cant explain it.
I finally sleep after staying up so late, and the moment I passed out, I woke up 5 mins later screaming in terror. unable to move, shrieking. I coudlnt image taking meth and being up 10 more days. some have claimed 20 days without sleep
what is it about sleep that prevents dark, demonic like hallucinations, and fear. there comes a point where after so many days without sleep. your fear center is triggered.
I’ve always imagined dreams as a sort of stress test for the brain. Just generating random noise that usually so incomprehensible that it’s quickly forgotten. Every once is a while though, something makes enough sense that in hindsight it feels like an experience that you lived through. That being said I experience very rare dreams with very limited clarity and I’ve never had a lucid dream so that influences my view quite a bit.
for me the visuals are extremely vague, but with a story that mainly makes sense. I always lucid dream though, because I am consciously coming up with every aspect of the story.
I just finished watching Loki today and this video is full of Tom Hiddleston
Dreams are just telling me what issues I have to work out, any anxieties I have or telling me what I should ‘do next’.
Or what tv show I’ve been obsessing over for the past 13 weeks. It’s a toss up.
Always intrigued by how creatively detailed dreams can get; part of my dream last night was me looking through a digital camera to see photos of some random woman whom I've never seen in real life - with each picture showing detailed scenes from her life over 40 years, such as hanging out with her uni friends in the 90's (could tell by the clothes). Not sure what my brain was trying to do there, but always appreciate the dream experience every night, and whatever 'movie' my brain cooks up
The fact that my dreams truly think I may have to perform a play I did ten years ago on the spot again-Super helpful to be prepared for that I guess
Usually for dealing with the emotion it still lingers around that event (as said, anxiety usually)... these dreams go away when we don't feel the same way around them anymore, usually when reaching a stage where we're not caring any less (which we usually feel is that way, but "really" isn't, at least to our weird subconscious).
@@BrnLng that’s interesting cause I haven’t had one in a while-used to get them more
you're a man.
Me: when people speak fluent french in my dreams but I've forgotten almost everything from my high school french class 15 years ago - D:
i do notice that dreams definitely feel like they are *always* a result of less sound sleep, in other words , anxiety. even when i believe they are completely happy, strange, amazing dreams, they never ever make me feel more well-rested. it is as if they forced me to be awake in my head for longer than i should be. anyways!! this is very fascinating !! >:3
For me it’s the opposite. When I can’t remember my dreams, I’m sleepy and groggy throughout the morning. Whereas when I do remember, I’m more energized lol
I almost never remember having any dreams, with the few exceptions being when I'm sleep deprived or stressed.
I feel like that is an observation I can relate to. My experiences with dreams seem to be associated with some kind of disturbances, and, thinking back now, the times I experienced some disturbances or mental discomfort while in bed also seemed to correlate with the times I had dreams. My recent experience with dreams is that I haven't had many at all, or, I at least very rarely remembered them, and I've also hardly experienced any disturbances recently, not really even having to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but this recent experience of mine also seems to line up with your idea.
weird, for me i almost necer have dreams except when i sleep very well for at least 9 or 10 hours. so i almost never dream because i hardly get those 10 hours. funny how dream mechanics are different for everyone
@@xhec i don't think i've ever not had a dream and i don't even know what that is like. i swear even if i had a 30 minute nap i will still dream. it also pisses me off that even though i have dreamt every day of my life, i can only remember 0.001% of them. most of the dreams i remember are a few nightmares from my childhood. i also never have nightmares! maybe a few times a year i will have a "scary dream" but i wouldn't consider that a nightmare
We know more than we think. We’re never really active of the fact that we’re hearing and taking in information EVERY day, but you dont have the time nor energy to acknowledge everything you see. When you sleep though, what else can your brain do but sort through the tons of information. Of course, this is a very flawed view on my end, and i’m only sharing a raised thought. Thinking is so beautiful.
This guy’s videos are so good that they all feel longer than 10 minutes and I’m always surprised to see that they’re actually less than 7. Keep up the good work 👍
The concept of dreaming of dreaming has always been fascinating to me. I still remember when I was like young, I kept having the same dream-like thing(?) for like a week I had the same dream... Everytime I "woke up" or tried to wake up i'd always still be in my "bed" still in a dream, I couldn't even tell what was real anymore 😭. This went everyday for like a real life week straight and I was lowkey afraid to go to sleep after that 😭
I've had something similar happen to me! I was having a nightmare and I would realize I was in a dream, so I would decide to wake myself up. However, I quickly lost awareness and instead I would just go into a computer menu and "restart the program", and then the dream resets, several times in a row. It's spooky!
I HAD THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPEN TO ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG. Every single night for a week straight just like u said but for me it was a nightmare and I was being chased until I woke myself up n got chased again and again until I would finally wake up n be ready for it n I'd actually be awake
yeah happened to me to man. I woke up in a dream and I went to sleep in the dream and dreamed and then I woke up in real life
Dude I hate that I had it happen to me when I was 5 when 5 times I woken up but then was back in a nightmare and when I woke up for real the exact beginning of my dream happend where my mom walked in and told me everything was going to be okay but i didn’t want to go with her becuase every time I did in the dream she turned into a monster and I had to run
You are actually very funny and the video are really well explained pls keep up the good work :)
Thank you :)
The weirdest part of my dreams is that it's extremely realistic, its so realistic that it gives me fake memories that I genuinely believe has happened in my life but is so absurd to be real
Dreaming is when we log out to recharge the VR.
Preety good point of view
Whoa, this is an awesome concept for a story. I had one little prompt I was working on where the real world and dream world were flipped and I was imagining the existential crisis that happens when the MC discovers that.
Well then it looks like I'm about to commit Sword Art Online
@@KBird204 Intriguing
It seems to me that dreams _are_ the processing your mind is doing. That's why you'll wake up with epiphanies from them, sometimes without remembering the dream(s) at all. They're very similar to pacing around your room and brainstorming or fantasizing about things, in that way, but done with a rejuvenative purpose as well.
What's up man, I'm an undergrad biochemistry major and I really enjoy your channel. Simple editing, informational, and a touch of humor; I hope to maybe do something similar one day. I recently started studying for the MCAT and learned something that caught my attention about your video. I'm not doing this to come at you or anything, I just figure you're interested in science so you might want to know! Anyways, at 4:35, you refer to the dominant hemisphere (the left in most people) being the main source of generating a thought. You say that in left-handed people, the dominant hemisphere is flipped, and becomes the right. I learned in my studying that this actually is not the case, and that the left hemisphere remains dominant in the overwhelming majority of left-handed people.
Appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos, and look forward to watching your channel grow!
I have never once experienced a nightmare in my 21 years of existence. Every single time a dream begins to shift towards a creepy or uncomfortable tone, I begin lucid dreaming and "change" my dream. For example, I was once having a dream that started out very normal: just my family and me in our house when I got a weird urge to go down to my notoriously creepy basement. I reached the top of the stairs, looked down, and it was completely black-instant dread. And then it was like I somehow snapped out of it whilst still dreaming. I remember telling myself "I don't like that. That's scary. Let's dream about something else." And I sorted of floated before it immediately switched to a completely different dream. Not quite sure what that's about, maybe an internal defense mechanism?
On an even weirder note: my mom has had several dreams throughout her life about people she knows dying. Each time she has one, that person dies in the exact same way she dreamt it, 3 days later.
When I was little I was playing games with a friend. It seemed every single main characters parents in movies died and that they can’t do anything unless their parents do. Or unless the character is grown up. I made up The character I was playing with my friends that their mother mysteriously died in their underwear in the bathroom. My mom overheard this and it was unsettling so she sent my friend home and interrogated me and asked me what on earth I was talking about. Fast forward. I am now 18.
A year and a half ago my mom passed away from a brain aneurysm which is horribly unpredictable. She passed away in the bathroom in her underwear.
We had a beautiful funeral for her and I still think about how eerie it is that time looped all the way back around to that experience. I remeber after my mom interrogated me how sickening it felt to even give a made up character that disturbing of a traumatic backstory and how stupid I was for thinking up something that dark as a child…
Here I am now as an adult. It’s so freaking weird and I don’t know what to think of it
Idk if anybody else had this but I've had times where I dreamt about playing a game that was genuinely fun and had all this stuff to do. But I never wouldve been able go come up with such a game if I was awake.
When you sleep your body is healing itself. I believe dreams are a distraction of the mind to you keep you asleep longer and give you more time to heal.
When I was in school I never got enough sleep which had many side effects. Anyways I noticed the more sleep I lost, the longer and more vivid my dreams would get. I got to the point where it was indistinguishable from reality. I could see, hear, and touch everything like it was real life. I noticed in the summer months when I had a chance to catch up on sleep, those hyper realistic dreams stopped. And it became the normal, uncontrollable stream of events that go by way to fast to remember.
Except dreams almost always only occur during light sleep, just before waking, so they don't really work to keep you asleep longer.
I believe it has a purpose. When you were little and watched a scary movie, you had nightmare's of the monsters from that movie during the night. So if you were afraid of a particular situation back in the stone age, maybe you we're "prepared" for that eventuality during sleep.
when i was a kid growing up i came up with an idea where when you have a really realistic dream, your actually aware of yourself in another "world" akin to the Multi World Interpretation Theory (imagine my surprise learning bout that years later). So what happens when we die if we fall? We just wake up.
Lucid dreams are something very interesting to me. From my personal opinion, I think they differ from regular dreams because we have both our conscious and unconscious mind affecting the dream in equal measure. Basically, when we are awake and imagine things or daydream, our unconscious still active but our conscious is "leading the way", so to speak, so we have pretty much all control of what is happening. On regular dreams, our unconscious takes the lead and our consciousness follows, still affecting some stuff, but generally following whatever happens in the dream. When we lucid dream, both our conscious and unconscious take hold in equal measure, as such if you get too excited you are lucid dreaming your conscious takes over and you wake up, but if you go with the flow of the dream too much the unconscious takes over and it becomes a regular dream. Of course this is anecdotal, but I think lucid dreams can be a very interesting thing to explore to anyone interested, just don't go expecting to discover the secrets of the universe.
Yes this is so truuuueeee. I remember lucid dreaming and I tried not to control too much so I won't wake up and it ended up going back to a regular dream
I induced a lucid dream one time (i was trying all sorts of things for a month and this was the one time it worked before i gave up for a while). All that happened was i woke up in my room got out of bead inside of my dream, walked through the house and went outside. The colors were insanely graphic and I could see perfectly for the first time in forever without glasses. I walked down the side walk as much as I could before I lost control of the dream because I couldn’t think of what to do next and woke myself up. The sidewalk cement looked like an art piece painted by Gan gogh, except it wasn’t static and was almost morphed. The greens of the grass were the brightest I can remember. And the sun, was indescribable. Also a smell of freshness. Really strange and eye opening experience. Never tried psychedelics but I think this is the closest I’ve ever experienced.
@@jewishmcloin1933 This is generally known as a 'false awakening' which is probably the most common type of lucid dream for the uninitiated. They tend to be especially vivid and 9 times out of 10 when somebody is interested in lucid dreaming it's because of such a dream.
Like @ZelphTheWebmancer said there's a balance between conscious/unconscious which exists in lucid dreams and I suspect that the "waking up" in false awakenings tricks your conscious mind into becoming aware of the dream.
As somebody who has practiced lucid dreaming on and off he's dead right about there being a 'push and pull' in a lucid dream state. The trick is to 'go with the flow' while also 'expecting' the dream that you want. It's hard to explain but generally trying to force things will only present problems, like your subconscious is an antagonistic improv partner. Instead you just need to 'expect' the things you want to happen, and they generally will with a little prodding.
i think you are a big youtuber trying to grow a new channel undercover as a challange.the amount of editing and scripting your videos need are insane. i subbed early lol .
That’s flattering but not the case haha
@@this.scienceThat’s something who is a big RUclipsr trying to grow a new channel undercover as a challenge would say.
Just found this channel. There is no way you don't blow up! The editing, humor, subject matter. It's all perfect.
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The real reason people have dreams is because God, in his infinite wisdom, wanted everyone to be able to chill a bit with Tom Hiddleston
Weirdest part of that video was me expecting the Tom Hiddleston thing to be a one off.
I should have known better
I love these, please make a video about split brain patients and the possibility of us having two conscious halves of our brains
I’ve actually been working on one about that! Super weird stuff
@@this.science so where is the video!!!!
I know dreams. That's when I miss out on important meetings and events, and get left behind by my friends - because I can't put on my socks or tie my shoelaces. I try and try for what seems like hours. Thanks, brain.
i have those dreams too😭like i’ll have something important to do and just cannot manage to get myself ready for whatever reason and it drives me insane. maybe it’s fomo. lol
@@TOONJERZEY It's amusing afterwards but really frustrating as it happens. 😺 Also, I am back at school all the time, and that was many years ago. Time to graduate dream school I would think, but no.
2 days ago and yesterday I had a dream that someone is talking to me in Japanese (I'm from Poland and I did in fact learn Japanese but only for 2 months like one year ago so there's no way I can remember this) and believe me it was real Japanese on a fluent level. The person that was speaking was my friend and we were having normal Polish conversation before she started to speak Japanes. It was so weird and mysterious and I'm curious if I will have similar dream again today
Something similar happened to me when I was a child, I dreamt of swimming in the ocean. Obviously, it's not possible, but I'd suddenly notice I could breathe underwater. It was also recurring over several weeks, and it was probably because I wanted to be a mermaid 🧜♀️ It's almost as if our aspirations become a silent play that our consciousness puts on.
I learned french 15 years ago for school and my ability is basically 0 today, but I still have people speaking fluent french in my dreams, and the worst part is that 'dream me' can understand it! Also my brother who is older than me is the same except he also speaks french in his sleep.
That's really interesting and I would love to learn more about how it's possible
To understand dreams is to understand consciousness.
+ unconsciousness
No it isn’t. You know nothing but little about the soul.
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@@user-ki6id4vt8uFuck off mate, you’re in a RUclips comment section, not a church.
Let me guess, you believe in a God?@@user-ki6id4vt8u
I learned I have aphantasia through dreaming.
I didn’t realize until a few years ago ( I’m 21) that others can visualize when they aren’t asleep. I just assumed the idea of “picture the bat hitting the ball” was metaphorical as a kid( didn’t take away from my ability to hit dingers). I was talking to my sister a few years back and and she said she was overlaying what she was seeing in her mind with the real world. She was able to essentially project any visualization in her mind into real life and said it was indistinguishable from our real surroundings. When she told me this, it completely threw me off. I was honestly kind of upset that I was unable to recall memories or picture what I’m thinking with the same visualization technique she was using. She was just as confused though and kept asking me how I was able to think. The best way I could describe it is in thoughts/ideas. If you think of the idea of Justice it wouldn’t necessarily go along with a picture for those who can visualize and I definitely don’t register it by visualizing, so this is the closest way I could help somebody understand how I think all the time with non-visual thinking.
Well, the picture doesn't look like reality. Your sisters is either special or exaggerating. You have to really concentrate to uphold it and cant really make up details
@@xx_gamer_xx8315 i almost think she has the complete opposite of me (hyperphantasia) as she said she can project an apple onto the dash of a car and see every detail. I made sure to ask if she could see the reflection of the light, the tiny perforations, and any other minute details of an apple. She told me she could see all of the above and just about perfectly if she focused on maintaing the projection. I’ve had intercourse with plenty of other people and so far I’ve found that most people( about 92% I’ve come across so far) can produce visual images in their minds but can’t project to the degree my sister can. The other 8% I talked to about it had aphantasia as well.
@@xx_gamer_xx8315 bro you don't even know their sister and just assumed shit
@@xx_gamer_xx8315There's different levels of being able to visualize things in your mind and it's different for everyone, and apparently I can't spell today.
My audiovisual imagination is profoundly vivid, I guess you could call it hyperphantasia? But what I visualize is distinctly in some other “place” and not overlayed on my real vision. Like having a third eye, but it sees what’s in your mind rather than what’s in the outside world.
I can kind of overlay things like that, but it’s still as if it’s on a different layer in front of my vision, so even if I imagine a realistic object, there’s still a clear distinction from that and what I’m physically seeing.
Think sort of like HUD elements in a videogame, you can see them clearly, and even if they’re drawn to look “realistic”, it’s still clear that they don’t physically exist in the game world
this was an incredibly entertaining and insightful look into dreams (I love dreams they’re so cool). the running Tom joke had me laughing out loud nearly every time. u got a new subscriber bro
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@@bart4549it's to the point where I love and I hate you but I cannot change you so I must replace you oh
owo what's this? a high quality youtuber talking about the intersection between science and philosophy? I must have been blessed by the algorithm gods to find you
Science. Dreams and Tom Hiddleston. I love this, You've got a new subscriber 👍
Never seen this channel before but what a pleasant and funny surprise to stumble across. Thank you Tom Hiddleston
Meanwhile vsauce explaining why dreaming happens in a video 10 years ago
I am taking a break from weed (you don't usually dream when going to bed high). Now that it has been a month roughly since I last smoked I am now starting to have these super realistic dreams like I've never had before. It is becoming more night by night and I am slowly becoming more conscious of the fact that I am dreaming. Mostly it's anxiety stuff like dreams where I crash my car because the brakes fail or I wake up and the sky is lit up like some AI image and we're being invaded by aliens. After playing a lot of Escape from Tarkov I have dreams where I am in a gunfight and I run out of ammo and have to find another weapon to keep surviving. It's always those anxiety scenarios where I have to find a solution to a problem. I agree that dreams are there to prepare us for future problems and help us cope with real life anxiety.
This dude going to blow up no doubt. Keep dropping these videos bro
is this a threat 🧐💣💥
I once had a dream where I was in class doing very VERY boring work and really didn’t want to do it, and then I suddenly realised it’s a dream and started flying but the the teacher told me to sit down and I somehow lost all control of my dream and flew back
I love the parallels between dreams and A.I. image/video generation, like nonsense words or letters that aren't letters or the off look or constant shifting of faces that belong to people you know. Have you noticed hands in dreams?
checking hands is the most common 'lucidity check' done by people training to become aware in their own dreams.
I wouldn't be surprised if they played these videos in science classes in the future
why so?
Tom Hiddleson was not harmed during the making of this video.
I think dreams are the parts of the day that you don't focus on as much. Like if I acknowledge something in a multifaceted way, like I think about it, then I think about thinking about it, it wont be in my dreams. Even by relating it to my dreams, like saying "please don't be in my dream," it has no chance of showing up. I've been doing this for years after watching scary shows and it works 100% of the time.
I think your brain weeds out the things that happen throughout your day, that you dont think about very much and includes them in your dreams in order to re evaluate them.
very high quality video! I saw your account name, I see the 86 and think "86K subs, not bad" but then my eyes keep moving and I don't see the K... It's only 86!?!?!?! I hope you keep growing bro
Thank you! hopefully I get that big one day haha
@@this.science just keep doing what you're doing and you wont have to hope. biggest things are community interaction and upload consistency. also would recommend linking several types of social media and pushing posts to all of them. making shorts is the best way to get views on youtube right now too.
Dreams remind me of the consequences If I act out on what I want to do 💀
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alr so when i was young i drew very badly. like literal pieces of shit. in one dream when i was 5, i saw that i drew a proper face of a girl, and i woke up, remembered it vividly and drew it. its been my artstyle ever since tbh. so dreams arent useless, they're actually very helpful.
This is why I roll my eyes when people attempt to tell me dreams aren’t real. There is so much evidence that we leave our bodies and go somewhere else when we dream. People have shared dreams and they both confirm they both remember sharing the same dream. The current science on dreams simply cannot explain this phenomenon at all. Also, lots of inventions have been invented from a dream. How can that be? The fact is science does not fully understand dreaming. We still have so much to learn about what happens and why.
Some of my dreams have predicted the future, I believe that there’s so much more that we don’t know.