hey boo thang, you should subscribe. i was gonna put some other stuff in the description but i dont remember what it was. i have Instagram now too! i'll probably just be throwing some behind the scenes stuff on there :D / basically_him
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.
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'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
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 .
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
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
"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!
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.
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
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
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.
I've "experienced" death multiple times in very vivid dreams (car crashes, being shot/stabbed, falling and not waking up just before impact, etc. ) and have unironically felt that those dreams have traumatized me in a very mild but noticeable way, it's fascinating to me and was what prompted me to read Jung's works. The most memorably terrifying one I had so "realistically" emulated the pain of being non-immediately but fatally shot in the head so well, writhing, shock, feeling of coldness, and all, that I still get chills/minor anxiety when I recall it as I would an actual traumatic experience despite knowing it never happened. An abundance of those types of dreams (and positive ones) have driven me to a point where I firmly believe the line between reality and dreams is much more blurred than most people think but to what extent we unfortunately just do not know.
I also had a dream I was shot in the head a while ago. Similar to what you said I was honestly traumatized for a bit. It was literally all I could think about the next day because of how real everything felt, especially as I “died” in the dream. Cannot quite recall the feeling as vividly now like you can tho
My dreams have messed me up so hard, but I guess I've never really experienced something truly traumatic. Even then it always makes me sad waking up. People I knew and loved in the dream are gone. Or certain events destroy me. I've had dreams that affected me for a day to days because it was so messed up and all felt so real.
I had practically the same experience but my head got cut off with a chainsaw by a huge muscular dude. That dream definitely traumatised me because I definitely had it before the age of 10 and I still remember it vividly 14 years later.
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 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 🤣
“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.
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 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.
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 😂.
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.
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
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 :)
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.
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.
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?
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.
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)
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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?
@@Vwerlg 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 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.
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
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.
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)
Wonderful channel and wonderful video :) Dreams have always been a fascinated thing for me. I've always dreamt crazy shit, in crazy contexts, and sometimes some of my dreams are the continuation of previous dreams that I had months if not years ago... And I, most of the time, remember them pretty vividly. I really hope we'll be able to explore this subject more in the coming years. (PS : though, my guy, careful with the plethora of mistakes in the text, even if some if not most are intentional... It's quite disrupting.)
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.
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
3:18 exaaactly, bro. It's _just_ my brain thinking about what it wants to without the ego handholding it. It's like walking a dog. The dog has all the real control in this situation. You only get veto power. Besides that, you're along for the ride, seeing where it goes. At some point, I decided I most enjoyed narrative-driven dreams. Since then, they became as such. Now, it doesn't matter how nonsensical they are, they always have some basic form of a narrative thread to be followed. Usually the focal point, which can be either character/plot/setting, will be the things that change the least over the course of the dream. I've had a lot of dreams that lean into the visual aspect of themselves, really wowing me with their use of color and cinematography (they're the ones I remember most - there are 2 dreams from my toddler days that stand out just for how striking their visuals were). In other words, my brain got the "More of this, please" signal ground into it like a cheese grater, at some point, and then like the addict it is indulged itself. It's putting on shows for me that I don't yet know I will want to see.
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
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 👍
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.
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 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 tom hiddleston thing was hilarious. it was just part of watching the video until the part where is name is written on the cue card (or whatever) and delivered to the brain. That's when I lol'd... lol
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...
I dream partly lucid and for me pictures and scenes already start while still recognizing my surroundings and ends evenly. When I’m awake just for a minute, I can go on from the part of the dream I just woke up from. That’s always been absolutely normal to me. Even so like being amazed in dreams about the dream itself and the visual details, creating music, reading (though texts tend to change themselves constantly) and forcing myself to chance the mood or wake up.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
One time I was dreaming and randomly the number “28” kept popping up in my dream. I think I heard like people talking to me about “28” in my conversations in my dreams, and then when I woke up, I had exactly 28 minutes until school started. I told my family this and they said that they didn’t call me to wake up or anything so it was entirely in my head. I will never forget that day that my dream saved me from being late to school with exactly 28 minutes left
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.
"All we see and seem, is but a dream within a dream." This famous quote makes perfect sense out of dreams, since "real life" is also just a dream. A varying degree of a dream, but still a dream nonetheless. Counsciousness is a giant hallucination that we call real life, simply because we all agree on it.
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
dreams are insane. some of my most memorable ones are from when i was little but a few weeks ago i had a dream that me ex (he’s an awful person but anything in my life involving him was about a year ago atp) overdosed on drugs and fell out the window of a very tall yellow building. that was the day I learned about how he had suffered from a weed addiction since we parted ways. no idea what it means but definitely one of if not the most disturbing dream i’ve ever had (that i can remember)
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.
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 remember when I was in elementary school we would have "guests" invited by the school to teach us about something. Like we had a dentist come to visit our class to explain the importance of brushing our teeths, and one time when I was 9 a "scientist working on sleep" came to explain to us the importance of sleep and why we dream etc. And she said our dreams are like a mash-up mixed-up replay of everything we saw during the day and I instantly raised my hand to call bullshit on that cause my dreams had NOTHING to do with anything i did during the day or any day. My dreams looked like a Lovecraftian scifi fantasy nightmare with a plot that spanned over what felt like months. Absolutely nothing to do with a remix of a schoolday. I found her intervention quite disappointing and from there I got the idea that her field of science was not a very serious thing.
I lucid dream almost every night and it's by looking at my hands in real life when I remember. Then, you're supposed to check them when you're dreaming too and you see a strange thing. Also, you should always BELIEVE that something will happen in a dream because if you don't believe, it WON'T happen and if you believe that it will happen, IT WILL. Just believe.
This guy knows. Expectation is key. if you push or pull too hard you wake up or get 'stuck'. Just let it ride and 'know' what's going to happen and you get the best lucid dreams. Fly for hours or referee a debate between satan and jesus...
The craziest part was that my auntie could predict the future with her dreams, by seeing what will happen the next day in her dreams most of the time Dunno if she can still do that, but it was quite wicked
that happens to me , i dream some scenarios in a wierd way , but then later the scenarios take place in my life later but then i realise that this was already shown to me in the dream
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.
