Understand and Use Dreams to Learn and Forget

This episode is all about the two major kinds of dreams and the sorts of learning and unlearning they are used for. I discuss REM-associated dreams that control emotional learning and their similarity to various trauma treatments such as ketamine and EMDR. I also discuss Non-REM dreams and their role in motor learning and learning of detailed, non-emotionally-laden information. I relate this to science-backed tools for accessing more of the types of sleep and learning people may want. Other topics are listed in the time stamps below.

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Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction  

00:00:30 Sponsors: AG1, LMNT & Waking Up  

00:03:00 The Dream Mask  

00:06:00 Cycling Sleep  

00:08:10 Chemical Cocktails of Sleep  

00:13:00 Motor Learning  

00:16:30 High Performance with Less Sleep  

00:17:45 Rapid Eye Movement Sleep  

00:20:30 Paralysis & Hallucinations  

00:23:35 Nightmares  

00:24:45 When REM & Waking Collide  

00:25:00 Sleeping While Awake  

00:26:45 Alien Abductions  

00:29:00 Irritability  

00:30:00 Sleep to Delete  

00:32:25 Creating Meaning  

00:34:10 Adults Acting Like Children  

00:36:20 Trauma & REM  

00:37:15 EMDR  

00:39:10 Demo  

00:44:25 Ketamine / PCP  

00:45:45 Soup, Explosions, & NMDA  

00:48:55 Self Therapy  

00:50:30 Note About Hormones  

00:51:40 Measuring REM / SWS  

00:53:15 Sleep Consistency  

00:56:00 Bed Wetting  

00:58:00 Serotonin  

00:59:00 Increasing SWS  

00:59:50 Lucidity  

01:02:15 Booze / Weed  

01:03:50 Scripting Dreams  

01:04:35 Theory of Mind  

01:07:55 Synthesis  

01:10:00 Intermittent Sleep Deprivation  

01:11:10 Snoring Disclaimer  

01:11:40 New Topic  

01:15:50 Corrections  

01:17:25 Closing Remarks  

Disclaimer & Disclosures