The evolutionary significance of dreaming | Patrick McNamara
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Ancient societies revered dreams. Modern science tells us why.
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Experimental neuroscientist Patrick McNamara argues that the dream state, specifically REM sleep, is crucial to human creativity and cultural evolution. During REM sleep, the brain creates a highly cholinergic environment that promotes connections between disparate ideas, resulting in innovative and creative outcomes unique to the human species.
A landmark characteristic of REM sleep is a dissociative state where unrelated ideas combine to create innovative solutions to problems. McNamara suggests that while society today has somewhat lost its reverence for the power of dreaming, traditional cultures valued them highly for these properties. By harnessing the benefits of REM sleep, individuals may be able to unlock their creative potential and solve some of the most pressing issues facing humanity.
In a world where innovation is highly valued, McNamara's theory on the power of the dream state may revolutionize our approach to problem-solving. He asserts that in re-evaluating our relationship with the dream state, it has the potential unlock new solutions to the challenges facing our world - and in turn, to drive cultural evolution.
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Jung believed that we were able to transcend our ego in the dream state to get glimpses of the Self. Just a theory of course, there’s so much we’ll never know for certain
Not theory is just the real live.
The dream state is where we solve our problems in our waking state
In my last lucid dream, I was trying to write notes to reference in the waking world.. it still needs working on, but it was quite a break through!
Are you doing things like writing notes on your body or in the walls of the dreams, or are you just trying to write mental notes?
@@williamjosephwebster7860 writing should be on paper, right 😮
@@hnr9lt-pz7bnI only write on my cat or the underside of my feet.
Kyle text here. We'll figure out how to communicate. I want to learn about lucid dreaming.
underrated channel
Some dreams that you have are remembered for a lifetime. Most are forgotten when you wake up. To keep a dream log is a step to lucid dreams. These could be a huge help in your life. Many of the so-called geniuses were given ideas through dreams. You can find this in history.
And many were not too.
and most great ideas were had in the waking state
@@1520_SEDGWICKon the toilet many greats 😆
So true, I have had dreams as a little kid that I still remember to this day but I don 't remember the dreams I had anymore from last night.
@@The_Great_Beyond keep a dream log. You have to have journal next to the bed to do that. Sometimes it takes years.
I could pick up dreams when going to sleep from point left off that morning back when I kept a diary, but weirdly enough at that time also searched for the surprise in every day. Believing that it's always there, I just had to find it.
I understand that dreaming and sleep (neurobiology in general) are tremendously beneficial processes. My question, thus, is that should we continue exploring how it works and what it does or should we devise ways of implementing it to our advantage?
Why not both?
That’s called lucid dreaming my friend!
I’m not sure about you but I’d rather keep computers out of the equation. Maybe I’m traditional in that sense but it wouldn’t seem to satisfy the deep respect talked about in this video, which to me seems like the right approach.
What do you think?
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Dreaming is also the cause of the current state of human consciousness . We evolutionarially went from dream observing in third person to dreami observing in first person. Best wishes
Não será o contrário.
Great Topic, and my Mom's maiden name was McNamara, small country Ireland
Animals dream too Patrick! Dreams are training without the physical activity.
Off the record, the background wall is fab, it frames the image so wonderfully
Facts I wish all videos were like this it's makes them picture seem much more crisp by contrast
It's like you can live multiple different lives I've revisited separate dreams multiple times and they started from last time I was there crazy shit
Man, his words sound so wise and what's more for what I've learned so far, he is relying on science.
Fascinating video!
Perhaps dreaming might be about some search kind persistent during sleeping and some useful outcomes may be expected that otherwise may not be possible. Thanks for the videos of this kind throwing light on some important but complex issues.
One thing I can surely say is I always had a profound reverence for dream state, since childhood. Nobody taught me this, it's entirely spontaneous.
Same
As sigmund freud stated: dreams are the kings road to the subconscious. He already connected the traditional mythic wisdom with a scientific approach of his time in his seminal book 'interpretation of dreams' still worth reading a hundred years on. It is a joy to see those ideas newly substantiated now by cutting edge science.
One of the greatest authors whoever lived , that being James Joyce bequeathed two master works of literature to the human race . The first - Ulysses- is about the daily routines and bodily functions including sex in the Jewish Mr. Blooms DAYTIME body and mind . For nighttime and REM sleep it took Joyce no less than eighteen years to write Finnegan’s Wake - the other half of Ulysses the sleeping half . It’s still quite shrouded in mystery I owe myself another read of this highly unusual treasure - he created the theoretical physics Standard Table module word for QUARK!!!!!! 🛌🛌🛌😱😱👑
Do we really get tired and go to sleep because of spending energy through the day, or the brain makes the sensation of "being tired" so it can focus all its energy to the brain to do REM?
If we really get tired for spending energy and then lacking it, where does the brain gains energy from?
And if the brain uses a lot of energy while sleeping, then why do we awake feeling with energy again, not sleepy and ready to do things in the day?
How come not many ppl dream about shapeshifting or teleporting or flying????
I barely heard about it.
My dreams are filled with shapeshifting and abstract-ness.
I realize most others have very real-life based dreams. Crossing the street. Seeing people. Normal stuff.
In my dreams, you know its a dream. There is a cut-off in the world. It isnt seamless.
How come so few ppl dream like that? And how come there are no talks on this????
Dream meanings are based on simple dream concepts.
There arent translations for shapeshifting, teleporting etc
Nice Video, BUT please dont make a bright white background, my eyes are burning. I want to see a interessting video at 3am and dont get enough sleep but my eyes shouldent hurt♥️
I Have Seen The Lord in My Lucid Dream Before and He Is A King 🤴 !!!!!!!!
According to that my dog must be extremely creative
Reverence for reverie
Safe practice in virtual reality for fighting mammoths, cave bears and sabretooth cats
You don't wanna see my dreams dude.
Why not?
You are, perhaps 🤔, not aware of how to interpret the messages being sent 💯🤷🏾♂️
wait isnt this big think
now that's a big think
They gave him a video to basically sit around and say they don’t know shit 👍
Need a new self model
Animals have REM sleep and do not have the ability to analyze their dreams. Dreams are nothing more than prior to cognitive memories.
Ironically this guy looks like he hasn't slept in months
Now, do maladaptive day dreaming.
I wish I didn’t have to dream. I feel like my dreams interrupt my rest. I’m often exhausted when I wake up. I have nightmares often. These aren’t recurring nightmares, either. The topics and themes are always different .
My “normal” dreams are always so active and frenetic in nature that I just feel so tired when I wake up.
I’ve been like this my whole life. I would sleep walk as a small child and talked in my sleep as a teenager.
The decade I spent smoking weed was one of the most restful times in my life. Not very productive, mind you, but it was nice to finally have an extended period of good, restful sleep.
Wow, way before reading the last part, I was concurring, then then you mentioned MMJ, and I 100% correlate with your story
Recently, I’ve been more afraid of going to sleep because my dreams have been becoming increasingly strange. I think the familiarity of a lot of the rooms is what scares me the most. No, the idea of learning something new from one of these dreams is what scares me the most. That’s why I’m afraid to try dreaming techniques. I keep thinking I’m going to remember something from a dream that I don’t want to remember. Something that will haunt me.
@@williamjosephwebster7860 Dreams are irrelevant to reality; relax; it's just the subconscious doing its thing. I experience similar situations, I immediately brush it off as nonsense.
@@sgsupreme17 That’s not what I meant exactly. I know dreams aren’t real, I’m just saying there’s gonna be some sorta eldritch horror looking thing that’s gonna show up one time, I’m gonna have to look at it and I’m not interested in looking at any of the freaky phyrexian nonsense my subconscious wants to cook up without my consent.
@@williamjosephwebster7860 I'm just as confused as you are. So what's the issue again?
R.E.M is necessary.. :/
rem sleep is not unique to humans, get the basics before lecturing.
every creation in this world comes with opposites. i dont need that.
Çok çok değişik, irdelenmesi gerek
Dreamcast this is not real os cave talk Matrialismo.
the reverence of dreams by primitive cultures gave birth to religion. And religion is the cause of countless atrocities. More people associate dreams with the spiritual world, messages from gods, omens and predictions, than they do with the brain showing us possible alternatives to an emotionally charged event.
so this channel and big think are just the same? aight, unsubscribed ,o7