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Why Do We Sleep? | Episode 1207 | Closer To Truth

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  • Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
  • Why do we spend so much of our lives not awake? Do dreams mean anything? What do sleeping and dreaming reveal about consciousness? Featuring interviews with Robert Stickgold, Patrick McNamara, Deirdre Barrett, and Nicholas Humphrey.
    Season 12, Episode 7 - #CloserToTruth
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    Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant.
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    Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.
    #Dreams #Consciousness

Комментарии • 347

  • @0ptimal
    @0ptimal 3 года назад +33

    Sleeps weird. Most days I wake up feeling the same, but once in a great while I wake up and immediately notice I feel superb, emotionally balanced, confident, centered etc, just in a state of peace, feeling like I think I should always feel. But those days are extremely rare. I don't know why or what brings on days like this, only that they occur randomly after a night of sleep. I've thought maybe it's due to what I was dreaming, or somehow my hormones found a balance during sleep, idk, but occasionally something happens during sleep that totally alters how I feel. I wish I knew what so I could recreate it, would change my life.

    • @WoodysAR
      @WoodysAR 3 года назад +4

      Exactly. I am often treated nicely, like i'm some important person in my dreams, it is so weird, I wake up (3-5 times out of 10?) feeling this warm, happy, nice 'supported' feeling, like there are a group who are assuring me everything is ok? or that,. it is like you just left a great party where everybody was nice yo you? (I assume, no one has e er been nice to me in real life, my parents abandoned me at age 8... Abused, raped, bullied, terrible horrible broken child hood.. BUT I hitchhiked to college, worked 2 jobs to pay, taught myself to play Violin, Piano, to do Painting, Sculpting, Computer Programming, Software Development, and now I create vast complex worlds in VR. I think 'they' (my dream people) helped me 'not need' the people 'here'. and made it all 'ok'... if that makes any sense... ; ")

    • @0ptimal
      @0ptimal 3 года назад +1

      @@WoodysAR oh gosh, thank you for sharing, that's an amazing story. I usually don't remember my dreams, but yea maybe like you I have good dreams and I wake feeling the effects. And yes actually when I wake on those days it feels like I was in a positive situation where things went very well, something not so normal in real life. If this is what happens then I wish I could create my dreams, or at least remember them. And good job becoming an ar vr dev. That's incredible and something I've wanted to do myself, but it's way over my head. But I see what is coming in that space, and you are in a perfect position for it being a dev.

    • @like-icecream
      @like-icecream 2 года назад

      Perhaps dreams are reflections of our consciousness, you experience that which is relative to you in some way through a combination of things you love, hate, saw, felt etc. maybe to remind us of what effect it had on us by over exaggerating some of those non specific experiences or thoughts which we may not recollect but we may act differently the next time they're presented in a subconscious way, or perhaps it's just consciousness undergoing repair which goes inline with other types of repairs as we sleep.

    • @tyree9055
      @tyree9055 2 года назад +1

      I've noticed work, diet, and lifestyle / emotional situation all play a role in both sleep and waking up.
      For instance, working in the restaurant industry (high stress, high energy, low exercise mostly, high caffeine, and late night shifts), I couldn't fall asleep prior to 2 a.m. and woke up around 10 - 11 a.m. I never lasted more than a few years at any job due to it and was very irritable.
      Yet while serving as an infantryman (low stress mostly, moderate energy mostly, excessive exercise, low caffeine, and early morning shifts generally) I found that I could get by with only 4 - 6 hours of sleep for years and could withstand prolonged deployments without difficulties in comparison to others who were younger (though I had the high stress background at this point too).

  • @Whiskey_Tango_Foxtrot_
    @Whiskey_Tango_Foxtrot_ 2 года назад +5

    We sleep to escape the nightmare of being awake!

  • @Bertie..
    @Bertie.. 2 года назад +8

    Just watched this. Love all the different series. I've noticed since I retired my sleep patterns and dreaming have changed drastically. I no longer have to sleep to a schedule. I go to bed when I'm tired, 10pm, 11pm staying up till 2 am sometimes. When I wake up knowing I don't have to get up I can find myself in a fantastical dream state and dream for another hour or so, sometimes vividly remembering parts of the dream before lying in bed and thinking ok I should get up now. I love this new found 'consciousness' Sometimes if I look back at old photos I can summon all sorts of dream memories. Fascinating stuff.

  • @kakhaval
    @kakhaval 3 года назад +6

    During major life problems I found dreams as an escape route and actively wanted to remember their details in the morning or wished going back. I have interpreted many of my dreams as symbolically reflecting my worries and finally I have cases of nested dreams where I dreamt I was dreaming inside the dream.

  • @amytrumbull2075
    @amytrumbull2075 4 года назад +7

    I don't believe we're not conscious when we sleep but rather that we don't recall some of what's going on while we are asleep. Perhaps it's a type of short term amnesia designed for a purpose we don't know.

    • @pancakebreakfast3188
      @pancakebreakfast3188 Год назад

      I'm sure I'm not the only one that has laid in bed with their eyes closed and began fantasizing about something, and then fell asleep and dreamed about that exact same scenario. Perhaps dreams are a way we entertain ourselves while we wait for our bodies to repair and rejuvenate themselves.

  • @andrewlange5785
    @andrewlange5785 3 года назад +27

    I've been thinking about this stuff all my life, nice to have such a good program to relate toi

    • @Unit_With_Legs
      @Unit_With_Legs 3 года назад +2

      Same. It's astonishing that the brain developed enough self awareness to want to examine and understand itself. The brain even named itself.

  • @peterpanino2436
    @peterpanino2436 2 года назад +8

    It would be interesting to know if people can contact other consciousness entities in dreams.

    • @cheforyourpartyprivatehire9765
      @cheforyourpartyprivatehire9765 8 месяцев назад +2

      I communicate with my beautiful son Daniel19 who left in 2021..He has visited atleast 6 times now and it's the most breathtaking places he takes me..We speak telepathically and when we hold hands I can feel his skin..He also gives me messages to make my life better without him being here🙏😘🙏

  • @judymichaud4081
    @judymichaud4081 4 года назад +3

    Thar is definitely sumthin to this. In my field of special propulsion I have made great discoveries. First thing in the morning as soon as I wake up is when I have a moment of clarity and the answer to something that I have been working on is suddenly clear to me.

  • @vidtrax662
    @vidtrax662 3 года назад +3

    I’ve learnt how to analyse my dreams....it’s the bits and pieces of memories, things I do in a certain period etc....then it gets messed up creatively when I sleep 😂😅😇

  • @wayneasiam65
    @wayneasiam65 4 года назад +13

    When I read a book, and then see the movie years later, the reading was always better. Our own imagination.

    • @user-qn6ey9pb6j
      @user-qn6ey9pb6j 4 года назад +3

      I think because in our imagination the stories, settings, and characters are fluid and have no fixed form so they can adapt to our emotional and mental state. Yet in movies we see a fully formed and hard fixed so the settings and characters become disappointing ( because they're constricted) as opposed to how fluid they were in our minds and imagantions.
      IDK that's my thought.

    • @Brajgamer
      @Brajgamer 2 года назад

      Same goes with songs, the songs which i didn't watch videos of connects in a better way.

  • @WoodysAR
    @WoodysAR 3 года назад +2

    The Woman Doc is spot on accurate. I don't seem to ever have nightmared, instead, I usually have these dreams, people are always so nice to me,. Like I am someone they all like look up to? or.. want to keep happy? Often I will wake up, and be trying to remember the specific details of a dream,. unable to, even a little,,. but can still feel the warm, sated, happy, fulfilled, theraputic 'love' feeling that happens,. I don't remember WHAT only that it was nice and made me feel... good,...

  • @lukintagi
    @lukintagi 2 года назад +2

    I noticed long time ago that when I'm about to fall sleep my brain starts to repeat patterns that you did during the day to improve them, for example when I was learning piano my brain started to repeat those patterns by itself to improve them, that happened also when I was learning English and when I play a video game, for example recently I've been playing call of duty on my Xbox and in the night just before I fall asleep completely, my brain starts to repeat this patterns of learning, in the game would be aiming, reaction, strategies, etc.

  • @virtualrealitychannel2276
    @virtualrealitychannel2276 4 года назад +7

    In ancient times our most distant ancestors were extremely simple sea creatures floating in the water. They didn't have eyes but could sense the sun. I think the eye was being developed at this time as the dark pigment sensitive to the sun would later evolve into some precursor to the retina. When the waves rose they were "awake," perhaps because they were closer to the sun; the retina was being formed. The eye was being formed. When the waves descended they further from the light; they were "asleep." How does this origin story of sleep inform what we know of sleep today?

  • @leomdk939
    @leomdk939 2 года назад +2

    I suffered from sleep paralysis throughout certain periods of my life. I haven't experienced it in years, fortunately. During one of my episodes years ago, I attempted to use sleep paralysis as a gateway to lucid dreaming. I was actually able to have lucid dreams with mild "control", I guess. Nothing elaborate, just the usual "let's fly now" type stuff. I eventually stopped because it was disrupting my sleep too much. It's very strange what your mind will do while you're asleep. Sleep paralysis is weird (and frightening) enough, but to use it as a gateway to the lucid dreaming world is a trip.

  • @kandulamamatha5313
    @kandulamamatha5313 2 года назад

    Mi discussions lo naku honestly nature vundhi ani judgment ivandi. HAPPY ga nidhrapothanu. AMEN.

  • @anaccount8474
    @anaccount8474 4 года назад +7

    We don't know for sure we're unconscious when we're asleep. Being unconscious and having a memory blackout feel the same later, there's just a blank. Maybe we aren't unconscious, maybe we just stop recording what's happening.

    • @freidenkercb2516
      @freidenkercb2516 4 года назад

      I suggest people who are asleep are conscious because of the brain being activ. As well as people who we really think are unconscious, actually are. The next question would be what this consciousness actually is.

  • @reffplunk6531
    @reffplunk6531 4 года назад +2

    Dont think to much on why we sleep but try and figure out how we wake up and why !

  • @irvine112
    @irvine112 2 года назад

    when i go to
    sleep,
    and i have
    no dreams,
    or in between
    dreams,
    when i think
    of nothing,
    i feel like i
    don't exist,
    then if i stopped
    to be,
    i would never
    know i was,
    and yet i am
    here,
    each time i
    wake up,
    and i feel
    like a new
    man,
    because i don't
    wannabe,
    a copy of
    memories

  • @suzannebrown2505
    @suzannebrown2505 4 года назад +5

    we sleep to restore our
    minds and bodies. It helps to heal ourselves and give us strength to exist and stay healthy and also helps to resolve conflicts and feel as good as we can.

  • @getbbudded23
    @getbbudded23 2 года назад +1

    I think this channel is very underrated

  • @marijuanagirls
    @marijuanagirls 4 года назад +7

    I’ve been a web designer for many years and I often dream in code (HTML, CSS, Java) ... all I see is code like I’m looking at a computer screen that covers my entire field of view. These “code” dreams often help me solve solutions to problems I have with websites I’m currently working on.

    • @WoodysAR
      @WoodysAR 3 года назад +1

      I was just about to say something non-believing,. but, upon a moments reflection.. I have spent a lifetime 'sleeping on it' to solve problems myself! it is the same for playing Violin, for creating VR games in Unreal Engine, for learning directions, adapting recipes, solving problems,.
      So you are having Matrix Code dreams huh. is the text geen? (there it is theres my comnent! LoL ;) ✌

  • @jamesgardner9583
    @jamesgardner9583 2 года назад +1

    What a wonderful GENTLEMAN and good thoughts 👏 Brother James 🙏

  • @AmitRay47
    @AmitRay47 3 года назад +2

    This episode of yours reminds of the last 3 years of my high school and first 2 years of my 5 year engineering course. I made a habit of repeating everything in my mind that I l had studied during that day. I was not aware of anything you discussed in this episode. I did not know then if that practice made my memory strong. Till today I apply this practice when learning some golf swing motions. I do the movement in my mind and somehow my muscle memory changes from the old to the new.

  • @marijuanagirls
    @marijuanagirls 4 года назад +6

    I have a rare condition where I only need 3 to 4 hours of sleep per day (not in a row) I’ve been like this since I was a child. On rare occasions when I sleep more then 5 hours in a row it makes me feel hung over and terrible all day. Does anyone else have a sleep pattern like this?

  • @jimscobie6646
    @jimscobie6646 4 года назад +1

    I've noticed I learn and understand new things better if I step away from it and take a break when I feel my brain is getting overloaded. Like learning software. You start taking in information but it's new and unfamiliar and confusing. Take a break and then come back and it's not new anymore, familiar and often less confusing..

  • @dipakranpuria9966
    @dipakranpuria9966 4 года назад +1

    I regularly watch your series and they are really good and informative. By interviewing so many PhD 's , you give real insights from different perspectives , but please do not deprive us , if you find the real truth. And in case if your search is not over , it is my humble suggestion meet Swami Anubhavanand, you will find his lectures on RUclips but that are for masses . And not person like you , he is well versed in English, so you will not have problems in communication. He doesn't work for money or fame or as a healer , so not very much known .
    All , I can say that he will be able to consolidate , all the perspectives and arrive to logical and true conclusions.
    And that is your purpose.
    Hope you read this comment, Maybe the search you have started have happy and conclusive end .
    Best of luck

  • @maggie0285
    @maggie0285 2 года назад +1

    When I was little my nightmares were about spiders or being in my dad's truck and it was driving itself. The Dolly Parton song about these boots were made for walking, I had a dream that a pair of boots were walking through the house. I woke up screaming. As an adult all of my nightmare are about tornadoes. I'm usually trying to hide in the basement and I can't find a good spot and the Tornado is getting closer. Most of my dreams are unpleasant. I've had lucid dreaming as well. I was aware I was in a dream and was actively thinking what I was going to do. A star wars creature was after me, I was aware it was a dream so I grabbed an ax and killed the creature. I woke up feeling great like I had solved a huge subconscious problem. I felt high the whole week.

  • @pleasebekindandcompassiona5836
    @pleasebekindandcompassiona5836 4 года назад +3

    Sleep is a short break from our messy lives,it's a gift from God to give us relax and to make us ready to face the new day drama .

  • @josephkingsley8708
    @josephkingsley8708 4 года назад +3

    If we were ever to elucidate the reasons why we sleep we would learn so much about why we sleep.

    • @projectmalus
      @projectmalus 4 года назад

      @Scott Halloween The "we are tied to the electric field" thing is cool. The bird nest example I might see as the bird (or other, like human) having two focuses with their attention. One is the general outward appreciation of what's in Nature, call it observation with little or no ego interference (this is more for humans than birds, but birds might have the equivalent of a flock ego) and the other is creation in the local environment, in order to achieve something. Here, the materials used dictate what image is derived, the nest is what happens when you use what's available, twigs.
      The dreaming thing to me is like a power station feeding the grid that is on idle. It's practical to keep the machine running rather than stop and start it. The brain machine is a calculating of the moments that come in as sensory info. The picture derived, like a graph shape, is the picture in our heads. The reason there is so much repetition in the world is that it's filler, to add more is to build a more realistic picture. News junkies have found the sweet spot where just enough variation comes in, along with the reassuring familiarity of both the news people and the periodic time events. These three things, and the equipment to do the calculus (which might happen externally, like a flock) and the moment. All embedded in the electric field?

  • @walterfristoe4643
    @walterfristoe4643 Год назад

    I've only just started the video, so I don't know if this will be mentioned, but the brain cells metabolize during the waking state, causing a build-up of metabolic toxins that must be gotten rid of. When we sleep at night this is when the brain has a chance to dispose of them. This isn't all sleep is good for, but it's a major part of it.

  • @anthonydavis4829
    @anthonydavis4829 2 года назад

    Sleep is our entrance to another deminsion. Proof of this is dreams. Death is entryway to another deminsion. You'll be far happier and successful. You've learned what to be aware of in this deminsion.

  • @hemant05
    @hemant05 4 года назад +9

    That's the name of the last book I purchased, "why we sleep" by Matthew walker

    • @paulmartin3682
      @paulmartin3682 4 года назад +1

      I listen to that book on Audible everynight...before I call to sleep.

    • @hemant05
      @hemant05 4 года назад

      @YOO HOO doesn't matter, I love adventures

  • @denniscanales4780
    @denniscanales4780 2 года назад

    I've been learning guitar since COVID, tried hard to get my fingers to position in difficult chords, after hours of frustration I go to sleep, - next morning the chords come smooth and easy.

  • @psycherevival2105
    @psycherevival2105 4 года назад +3

    I learned to drive manual transmission in a dream. I have solved design problems many times in my dreams and often prefer to take a nap when I am stumped. I have had dreams that were premonitions as well.
    What about the idea that perhaps when we sleep we also have the ability to tap into a greater intelligence? Perhaps we are uploading information to the collective consciousness as well as learning from it during sleep?

  • @grantburris
    @grantburris 2 года назад +1

    I've always been interested in dreams. They seem to mean different things to different people. The most fascinating thing, to me, is precognitive dreams. How in the world does that work? And why? Especially if its a meaningless dream about non significant information. I've experienced one of that sort many years ago. I've never understood it. However, it was 100% accurate down to the finest detail. And I dreamed it two days before it happened. What's the meaning of that? It has always puzzled me.

  • @frank1803
    @frank1803 4 года назад +2

    Sleep +1 .... Best part of my day.

  • @TEE19622
    @TEE19622 4 года назад +3

    When we sleep its the closest to "back to the source" we can get and the furthest from .. consciousness

  • @PhillipMoore-vj6cc
    @PhillipMoore-vj6cc 4 месяца назад

    2 things. First. The woman said that sleep started with mamals. But, don't fish also sleep, and birds as well. I think (could be wrong) that insects also sleep. Second. Before the brain sleeps, it self anesthetizes itself. This so we don't physically react to various inputs and outputs that it's generating. The brain is sorting through your day and cataloging it by reinforcing stimulus of particular ganglion making them permanent or semi permanent. Since the frontal cortex (consciousness ) doesn't understand this filing system. When implemented during REM, it seems crazy to us. The brain solves this problem by introducing a harmone that not only wakes us up, but erases all but the strongest dreams.

  • @db8799
    @db8799 2 года назад

    As long as I am witnessing change.... I am dreaming...
    The real Self is changeless...

  • @kasperzier7391
    @kasperzier7391 4 года назад +1

    Its true , I often get new ideas / solutions during sleep, or just before I go to sleep, can be quite an eye opener.

  • @senti7965
    @senti7965 2 года назад

    I came here because my experiences on Out of body travel made me awake
    The portal to this higher realms, dimensions, is within us, it is the seat of the soul, also known as pineal gland, third eye. once you meditated in your dreams and focus your Consiousness in the middle of the eyes, it will open up a like spiral wormhole tunnel and your Consiousness will travel through it in the speed of light and you will see how vast our universe really is.

  • @freethot333
    @freethot333 4 года назад +3

    Awesome discussion! Thanks RL :)

  • @rizalpunio5919
    @rizalpunio5919 2 года назад

    Great.. watching this at 03:23 am

  • @marcioviotti1639
    @marcioviotti1639 2 года назад

    I've thought a lot about this issue and I've come to the conclusion that we sleep to accumulate the energy of consciousness we need for wakefulness.
    Consciousness is a very subtle form of energy that needs a special mode of consciousness to be stored. That's why all beings have some form of lethargy designed to accumulate the energy of consciousness.

  • @jessiejamesferruolo
    @jessiejamesferruolo 2 года назад +1

    I always hear about how people have abstract dreams, but all of my usually seem pretty realistic. Im always in some sort of post apocalyptic scenario or a war. Sounds like a nightmare, but Im never scared. Im always just handling the situation.

  • @deepaktripathi4417
    @deepaktripathi4417 Год назад

    Sleep is mysterious, but it's important to be emotionally balanced. Atleast for me.

  • @papinbala
    @papinbala 3 года назад +1

    i used to be a meth addict and went as long as 8 days with no sleep, at that point no matter how much more meth i did i still ended up collapsing to get the sleep which lasted about 24 hours of sleep after a week of being up

  • @julianmann6172
    @julianmann6172 3 года назад +1

    The main reason we sleep is because our prime existence is spiritual, and most of our soul stays in the next world, even though a small part is here and attached to our physical presence here. However our soul, which is comprised of several parts, must be re-united regularly in the next world, otherwise we are not able to function. There is also a subsidiary reason, namely that the body can carry out repairs and maintain brain functioning. However this is not the main function of sleep, whereas the spiritual side is.

  • @simonspydr8030
    @simonspydr8030 4 года назад +1

    Many years ago in a book I was reading I saw referenced another book called 'an experiment with time' J W Dunne I believe is the author, IIRC it was written in the 1920's or thereabouts. I've never read it, but apparently it suggests that we have precognitive dreams, dreams of future events. I've no clue if this has ever been documented to be true but just imagine if it were true, that would surely throw everything we know up in the air. Interesting, one day I might buy that book.
    Also this is one of the best channels on youtube, I really enjoy it, thanks :)

    • @omnijack
      @omnijack 4 года назад

      Plenty of anecdotal evidence on precognitive dreams (e.g. look into what inspired Carl Jung’s “Collective Unconscious” idea), but
      1. The contents can be difficult to share
      2. If a precognitive dream serves as a warning (i.e. doesn’t happen because the dreamer took or accurately conveyed the advice), is it less accurate?
      3. Every individual human experience depends on countless variables working together-so it is rare that a “recordable” precognitive dream can be verified.
      So when you consider a hypothetical science that must found assertions on low-success percentages, it becomes difficult to codify things like the mechanism and mechanics of consciousness.
      Which is just to say: if we are to learn anything about consciousness, we will have to accept and accommodate things that have long been derided.

  • @pavelpriessnitz3040
    @pavelpriessnitz3040 4 года назад +5

    Great as always. Still waiting for DMT episode tho. :)

  • @ellierfromthebronx4531
    @ellierfromthebronx4531 4 года назад

    The body needs sleep. Living beings need to recharge. We usually have no control over sleep coming upon us. It has to happen. Otherwise, we get sick as pointed out in this video. Its a must...and I'm grateful for it.
    Why do we sleep? Because we have to!

  • @danielgonzaleznader7387
    @danielgonzaleznader7387 2 года назад +1

    LOVEEEEEEEEEEE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ROBERT

  • @SumNutOnU2b
    @SumNutOnU2b 4 года назад +2

    I stayed up late and skipped sleep just to watch this.

  • @tysonkonken6184
    @tysonkonken6184 4 года назад +5

    Cause I'm exhausted, all the damn time! Mystery solved.

  • @jedics1
    @jedics1 4 года назад +1

    I got a lot of criticism over the decades for my sleep ins but those ppl are all looking pretty rough around the edges compared to me now. Its the equivalent of a lithium battery, if you use 100% you get approximately 1000 cycles over 3 years before its capacity reduces to under 80%, if you use the middle 60% you get 3000 to 5000 cycles over 10 years. Do you want to be operating below 80% capacity by the time you are 40 or 50?

  • @danielarnold9466
    @danielarnold9466 7 месяцев назад

    I once heard that sleep is the ultimate leap of faith. You go to bed each night assuming you will wake up in the morning. But that is by no means a certainty. But it is a belief that we rely on. And are dreams prophetic? Who knows. Since our minds are fooled all the time while we are awake, it is reasonable to assume that our dreams, which appear to be not ruled by logic, can also be fooled.

  • @bairamqassem6149
    @bairamqassem6149 4 года назад +4

    Robert I am exatly like You. Thanks dear Frind.

  • @nyworker
    @nyworker Год назад

    Interesting comment by Nicholas Humphrey on dreams and role playing. They say all of those people in our dreams are actually us, or we are staging our own play or production.

  • @kakhaval
    @kakhaval 11 месяцев назад

    If nobody ever slept we wouldn't have asked "Why we don't sleep?" We are asking status coup trying to see how we are designed. It is a long journey to go.

  • @michelvandepol1485
    @michelvandepol1485 4 года назад

    Robert Kuhn! Thank you

  • @bc1248
    @bc1248 4 года назад +9

    Battery needs recharging.

  • @deepakkapurvirtualclass
    @deepakkapurvirtualclass 2 года назад

    In the waking state, thoughts come 'automatically' in our minds. For example, i myself don't know what thought will come into my mind say after 10 minutes, 20 minutes etc.
    When thoughts come automatically to our mind, it 'seems' to us that we have consciouly 'thought' them.
    Similarly, while sleeping also thoughts come 'automatically' to our minds.

  • @paulobrien6581
    @paulobrien6581 2 года назад

    Look up the decalcification of the pineal gland and how it solidifies with aluminum. I did not dream for 30 years while having Lyme's disease which prevented melatonin production. I started eating and consuming watercress which is the number one way to soften up this gland which is directly related to dreaming. I have vivid dreams now 3 to 4 times at night remembering all of them with wild creativity. I found the aluminum to be the most destructive thing in our day to day lives jamming it into our lymphatic system with any purse print shoving it into our mouths with toothpaste and drinking water loaded with fluoride which is also aluminum.

  • @josephhruby3225
    @josephhruby3225 Год назад

    This is the 4th time I've started watching this segment . I go to sleep each time .

  • @suzannebrown2505
    @suzannebrown2505 4 года назад

    REM sleep, I believe, helps creativity, helps one to recognize issues and possible solutions, helps one to possibly explain why we do what we do, and may recognize conflicts and realize solutions. Lucid dreams allow one to realize he or she is dreaming and can wake up at will and give us insights as to why we may dream what we dream.

  • @edmondcohen2300
    @edmondcohen2300 Год назад

    Dreams are FREE will, willing to Be, and other practical reasons, the like of prompting the other still sleeping neurons to wake up the others.

  • @noseefood1943
    @noseefood1943 4 года назад +1

    I don’t fear after death because I experienced dreamless sleep and put under anesthesia for surgery

  • @darkcult99
    @darkcult99 2 года назад

    Fascinating! 🤔

  • @eddiemorris17
    @eddiemorris17 4 года назад

    Wow i dream every night,now i know why im tired all the time,this shined on a lot of things for me.I also cannot remember any of my childhood or past i wonder if this has anything to do with sleep as well??.

  • @starxcrossed
    @starxcrossed 2 года назад +1

    I think I am Robert Lawrence Kuhn. Whatever category of human he is. That’s me.

  • @StanTheObserver-lo8rx
    @StanTheObserver-lo8rx 4 года назад +1

    I always just thought the reason was simple...we dream to fill in the hours of darkness in the jungle. Otherwise,being hyper aware in the dark blackness our ancestors lived in would be too much stress. As long as the Earth has been round life has had hours of darkness to kill. Dreams are our life's theater.

    • @originalintent3664
      @originalintent3664 4 года назад +1

      This statement is deeper than it appears.
      Thank you for posting.

  • @gracerodgers8952
    @gracerodgers8952 2 года назад

    Tell me why I sleep for 8 hrs,but I only am aware of when I closed my eyes and then, when I opened them. Where did 8 hrs go? Why did it seem so short?

  • @ameralbadry6825
    @ameralbadry6825 Год назад

    Dreams are our own screen savers

  • @stevieg2536
    @stevieg2536 Год назад

    Time still seems to pass in sleep, albeit faster. I wouldn't call sleeping being entirely unconscious. I've had seizures before where I immediately went from talking to my friend to them freaking out because Id just had a seizure... No time passed, it was immediately from my perspective even tho I was missing like 5 minutes. That doesn't really happen during sleep

  • @rineric3214
    @rineric3214 4 года назад

    A British scientist did sleep experiments as a result of World War II experiences. It was found that no person could do more than six hours of radar duty - schedules had to be changed as a result - because the constant "whup" of the radar put anybody to sleep, including soldiers who could stay awake for three days on bombing missions. The British scientists had enough money to conduct private experiments. He gave a sample group of people complete freedom to do anything they wanted and they had constant access to the gym. They did not need sleep. Many of them went weeks and even months without sleep. But, if even only one repetitive sentence was added to their weekly questionnaire, they would immediately fall completely asleep. Dreams freshen the mind from the dulling effects of repetition. Dreams are not so much bizarre as highly non-repetitious. Originality freshens the mind. Sleeping and dreaming are to freshen the mind from repetition fog.

  • @walterfristoe4643
    @walterfristoe4643 Год назад

    I really like dreaming when I sleep! I never have anything like a bad dream or a nightmare.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 3 года назад +1

    Could be something drains during day, whether physical, subconscious or conscious, that recharges at night like battery. Also could be something fills up during day, like storage, that has to be emptied so it can be filled up next day, perhaps memory capacity or some sensory capacity.

    • @jamescollier3
      @jamescollier3 2 года назад

      The computer simulation has to optimize and clean the unneeded memory, and download tomorrow's data

  • @citizengoodman8023
    @citizengoodman8023 2 года назад

    I have solved problems in my dreams many many times in my life. I don't need an expert to tell me if problem solving happens when you sleep.

  • @juliomarcolla3977
    @juliomarcolla3977 2 года назад

    siempre profundo y esceptico a la vez,bien david

  • @johnbrowne8744
    @johnbrowne8744 4 года назад +3

    That's an easy one. We must sleep to rest and recover. In fact, if you try not to sleep, very soon you will become delusional and exhausted forcing you to sleep. Being awake is hard work.🤯

    • @Ploskkky
      @Ploskkky 4 года назад +1

      That is only part of it. As is extensively explained in the video... sleep has more functions than that: cognitive processing, better memory consolidation, learning, assisting in problem solving, it feeds into creativity etc..

    • @johnbrowne8744
      @johnbrowne8744 4 года назад

      @@Ploskkky Hi. Yes, those are part of rest and recovery. The list is endless.

    • @johnbrowne8744
      @johnbrowne8744 4 года назад +1

      @Ruby Badilla Hi. Very good. So, why do we sleep? I think that was the question.😴

    • @johnbrowne8744
      @johnbrowne8744 4 года назад

      @Ruby Badilla Yes, my friend. I teach Nonduality.🙏🏽

    • @johnbrowne8744
      @johnbrowne8744 4 года назад

      @Ruby Badilla Have a good day.😊

  • @gambini_modding
    @gambini_modding 3 года назад

    Ultimately, i think dreams have as much importance to our brain functions than conciousness. They could be both just the echoe of things that happen in our body and we have no control of. We believe we are in control but neurocience says that we become aware of our actions and thoughts long miliseconds after they are executed. We could be completely automated and both just sub-products. Cool thing is: If our own awareness can affect our feelings hence our future behavior, then it does have a function, just like dreams. you can´t detach them from the experience.

  • @TheUltimateSeeds
    @TheUltimateSeeds 4 года назад +7

    Why do we sleep?
    1. Because drooling on our pillows while we were awake would be embarrassing to explain.
    2. Because kicking our bed mate with the "jimmy leg" reflex while awake would be asking for trouble.
    3. Because…...

    • @xspotbox4400
      @xspotbox4400 4 года назад

      Why do we fart during sleep?

    • @my1creation
      @my1creation 4 года назад

      ... driving with our eyes closed would be dangerous 🚙😵

    • @xspotbox4400
      @xspotbox4400 4 года назад +1

      @@my1creation I did pedal a bicycle over night once while asleep, was lucky that part of the road was a straight line and no traffic at those hours. Didn't tip over or fall, bumb into something or anything, just sleep and dream with my eyes closed until i suddenly woke up and realize i'm still pedaling, like there's nothing to it. Brain never really sleep, just conscious self part go and wonder on itself sometimes, but rest of the awareness can still sense physical reality and perform learned body functions.

    • @my1creation
      @my1creation 4 года назад +1

      Xspot box 😆 that’s awesome. You were lucid biking 🤩 🚴 I love it 🧠🤣

    • @eyebee-sea4444
      @eyebee-sea4444 4 года назад +2

      Because otherwise "No! I didn't took the cake out of the fridge last night, at least not consciously. I must have sleepwalked again." wouldn't work as an excuse then.

  • @bokudo32
    @bokudo32 3 года назад

    Sleep is the best part of life

  • @thomassoliton1482
    @thomassoliton1482 Год назад

    Interesting that “normal” dreams are not “creative” as opposed to “memorable” dreams in which you awaken spontaneously. Perhaps the main purpose of non-REM (slow-wave) sleep is to generally excite all regions of the cortex, in contrast to normal waking, where only local regions are excited (depending on your experiences or thoughts) at any one time. This global excitation would tend to cause habituation (fatigue) in synaptic connections that had been highly active during the day - not unlike trying to focus very hard on a problem and then you “have to” stop and can’t think on it for a while. Say 8 brain regions were particularly active during the day. After being “suppressed”, they will rebound, just like the problem you had to stop thinking about. But those 8 regions will all start being active at the same time, and will likely interact via intercortical connections, forming new associations. During REM sleep, these global associations present as dreams. An important question is how recent information (in terms of synaptic connections) become integrated into very old consolidated memories to maintain a cohesive world model.

  • @dondattaford5593
    @dondattaford5593 3 года назад

    Sleep i think is a return to a realm we knew you close your eyes and we'll something is happening I think in the beginning we were just thoughts in a field and the brain makes use of our thoughts or aides even feel as though our thoughts don't need a physical body

  • @legron121
    @legron121 2 года назад

    Unconsciousness is far more mysterious than consciousness.

  • @fernandocostadecampos6854
    @fernandocostadecampos6854 2 года назад +1

    It's funny because scientists seem to have a double standard when it comes to anedoctal evidence. It's kinda like "If it doesn't hurt our major beliefs, let's consider anedoctal data. If it does, let's fight it, descredit it.". For example, when it comes to Near Death Experience reports, considering anedoctal data seems to be a terrible sin against Science.

  • @lumigg2556
    @lumigg2556 4 года назад +1

    bc i can :)

  • @sparrow7952
    @sparrow7952 2 года назад

    im going to show it to my parents, this. They hate my sleeping habits. lol.

  • @freidenkercb2516
    @freidenkercb2516 4 года назад +1

    There are so many animals who sleep and are almost as active. Do they kind of rewire their brain? That could Be an intresting approach to this topic

    • @ritawing1064
      @ritawing1064 4 года назад

      Nonhuman animals sleep just as humans and need it just as much..which makes it even sadder that intelligent, social nonhumans are sleep-deprived to death in experiments, a torture described as second to none by unfortunates who have been subjected to it. What we really need to study is why we're so bloody cruel.

    • @freidenkercb2516
      @freidenkercb2516 4 года назад

      I suppose it is in our desire to learn new things and the thought non-equality of life. Since many diseases and deaths are linked to sleep problems it gives sense to research and sacrifice some 'less important life forms' for saving much more humans. And another thing is that we, whether eating plants or animals, have to kill to survive.

    • @freidenkercb2516
      @freidenkercb2516 4 года назад

      It would Be also cruel to risk more casualties due to inknowledge

    • @ritawing1064
      @ritawing1064 4 года назад

      @@freidenkercb2516 well, we in particular do not, as the world associations of dieticians repeatedly tell us. But human cruelty rides roughshod over science when it feels like it. We really do need to investigate why we are such a reckless and sadistic species. That would be knowledge worth having.

    • @freidenkercb2516
      @freidenkercb2516 4 года назад

      @@ritawing1064 Do you mean human cruelty in the sense of those belongers of our species who kill or torture for no good reason or do you see a broad problem with human society or even with humanity in general?

  • @mykrahmaan3408
    @mykrahmaan3408 Год назад

    Consider the following DESTINISTIC POSTULATE:
    Particles of bodies from other stars destined to be composed inside the earth and delivered through plants as food for the ones already delivered (to be assembled on its surface), are stored in astrolets (planets and moons), while the same after their demise are stored (along with the changes during the life function) in corresponding geolets (one for each being) inside the earth.
    Then, it is possible noREM dreams indicate the interactions of astrolets with plants transfering future beings to the core of the earth, while REM ones indicate interactions of the plants with the geolets.
    Accuracy of this postulate can be verified (without any intervention into the body of any being) by deriving the mathematical model of the mechanism of these interactions resulting in growth of and on plants as functions of particle interactions inside the core of the earth to compose seeds, water and fertilizers relevant to different plant types. Hence verifiable by direct influence on development and growth of (and on) plants.
    This implies integrating arithmetic with particle physics to derive biology.
    Note: DESTINISM discards both DETERMINISM and PROBABILISM (or randomism/free willism/chaocracy or whatever other name one gives to it) as equally fatalistic as religious dogmas, and strives to rectify observable LAWS OF NATURE (specifically Arithmetic, Thermodynamics, evolution and astronomy) as RECTIFIABLE DEVIATIONS from The System of Laws necessary for SUSTENANCE OF IDEAL LIFE FUNCTION ON THIS EARTH eternally.
    This, unlike religious faith that expects GOD to resurrect dead ones, would pave the way for present generation to retrace all the beings that ever lived on this earth ourselves.

  • @abelchavez8786
    @abelchavez8786 2 года назад

    Consciousness is the opposite of a Computer 🖥

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 4 года назад +3

    I had a dream last night ( very vivid) that I was at Spider-Man’s house and the hulk was there to kill him.. I had seen in the future and knew that no matter what spider man did he was dead.. yet I tried to hide him. Crazy

    • @sirbarringtonwomblembe4098
      @sirbarringtonwomblembe4098 4 года назад

      All dreams are as real as the one you are having right now.😁 Take care, friend.

    • @eyebee-sea4444
      @eyebee-sea4444 4 года назад +1

      Every dream has a deeper meaning. Wanna hear the meaning of yours?
      Ok, it means: You're watching too many superhero movies! ;)

  • @kmonsense8716
    @kmonsense8716 4 года назад

    Sleep is not a normal thing to the body but necessary for its functioning. Without sleep, the individual will lose consciousness permanently, what we call death. Sleep itself is an ephemeral loss of consciousness.
    We sleep whenever the entropy of the body gets higher threatening the entangled system entropy/inward-man. The entropy must necessarily be kept within a certain limit whenever, the limits are being reached, the mind shut down the body to avoid a permanent loss of consciousness.

  • @saturahman7510
    @saturahman7510 2 года назад

    I love sleeping. I have to sleep 8-10 hours a night . If I cant sleep enough, I feel sick all day.

  • @jeffamos9854
    @jeffamos9854 4 года назад +2

    I like dreams. Its the only time I get to fantasize

  • @keithmetcalf5548
    @keithmetcalf5548 Год назад

    Deardra! ❤️❤️❤️

  • @theresebrandser
    @theresebrandser 2 года назад

    So then, anything that sleeps, is conscious. Hmmm, interesting. Do insects sleep, trees? Great video!

  • @wahnano
    @wahnano 2 года назад

    In this, there are sufficient proofs for people who can hear.

  • @candelamanfredi1500
    @candelamanfredi1500 2 года назад

    I have watched at least 20 videos and I have never seen a woman being interviewed by Dr Kuhn. 😳😳

    • @CloserToTruthTV
      @CloserToTruthTV  2 года назад

      Your point is well taken. Closer To Truth celebrates diversity, especially diversity of ideas.
      To support women in science and philosophy/theology, CTT prepared three special series, each with 11-12 world-class experts, who happen to women and happen to be CTT contributors.
      Women in Philosophy and Physics/Cosmology
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      CTT also promotes the work and videos of Dr Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a philosopher and novelist who explores questions such as the existence of God and the mind-body problem. has 22 videos and appeared in 6 CTT TV episodes - live-closertotruth.pantheonsite.io/contributor/rebecca-goldstein/profile
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      Goldstein, Rebecca
      Gopnik, Alison
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