Sleep-Engineering: Improve Your Life By Manipulating Your Sleep | Penny Lewis | TEDxGrandRapids 

3:29 Very informative video. Also, love the way she plays with her legs while communicating.

i can feel her passion about science so much

Sept 2020. Memory of the day is replayed during the sleep. Problems are solved during the sleep

Great talk. I could listen to her all day. And night, as it seems to be.

I loose sleep watching Ted Talks at night

Such a succinct talk. Much easier to recall information on what she explained even days later.

You are doing a great job, don't mind any of the joking comments. I could imagine, that it is comments like those, that have made your body feel vulnerable. I trust your being is recognized by those meeting you. Thank you :)

For me it's the opposite, I suffer from hypersomnia. And it's really awful. There are people who suffer from hypersomnia who are much worse than me, but I can sleep on vacation for 17 hours and still feel tired. I also get a horrible headache from it and can't concentrate or think properly. And I've lost the ability to wake up on my own despite having multiple alarms, I can just walk to the other side of the room turn it down and go back to sleep. Often times, I don't want to sleep but still feel sleepy. I wish I could get rid of this condition.

REM sleep is a dream of mine.

That was one misleading video description!

Really good talk, I love what she said about the association thing. I've heard that's very helpful with learning other languages and stuff too.

well-sleeping is the MOST important life practice....and one of the hardest to be achieved! thanx for the ideas here.

Thanks for this information!

I have been listening to sound waves for motivation and anxiety relief lately at nights and i feel much better the day after... seeing this proves what i have been doing is scientifically proven

A brilliant talk. Very informative informative.

This is fascinating. I want to understand the mechanics of the cosmological process and I think I've had a number of symbolic dreams that seem to explain it to me.

Thanks for this

great talk thank's insipred a practical idea

Interesting insight to sleep and behavior control/results. Bravo.

LOVE It great info . isochronic tones ! I use for various waves wether it be delta or beta I've battled sleep an insomnia all my life and meditation an tones an binaural beats have truly improved my quality of sleep wich in return has played a strategic role in my recovery from myself.

Very informative. At the end the pillow solution sounds fabulous.

Thank you.

I take sleep seriously. That's why I always make sure I get at least 14 hours a day.

Penny Lewis, Thank you very much. An excellent talk, filled with information not generally known and presented exceptionally well. I paid close attention and was not bored or distracted for one single moment. Wish all the talks were as good. Thank you again.

Very interesting. Keep up the good work

Excellent!

Thank you

Wow, deep down inside i believed these things already and used to tell my friends about the same. But can't tell the solid reason behind them. Now i have the link to share with them.

Very informative!

what is the conclusion? and what we have to hear while sleeping?

Very interesting talk!

I found this tedtalk very informative, also, am I the only one who found her very adorable with her foot movements & all?

i play calm soothing music (Zen) when sleeping, feels refreshed n energetic the next day. Able to think rationally before an action or a conversation,

Great research! Would love to try and buy the results from this research..

Awesome TedTalk, thanks!

Greatly enjoyed this TEDx Talk. Furthermore.. :D I think Penny is delightful. :)

powerful words.

I understand that improvement of traumatic memories. It seems that if you go or the moment of trauma by writing down the memory of it's triggers it is much easier to overcome than if you squelch or try to suppress the memories, which just come back in some tortured, altered form.

Interesting but not practical, which was what I was hoping for

Great topic and beautiful necklace!

This made me wonder about the relationship between EMDR treatment for trauma and slow wave sleep.

her leg movements are just awesome

Quite engaging talk. Love the idea to level up our sleep quality. I will go ahead and will test this idea. So, I want to complete design of my notes system in Google Keep, picking right labels and colors in a way it fits best, so I can always keep and find my ideas with maximum eaze. And I'm writing about this problem and listening to "rain with occasional thunderstorm" sounds and going to turn it sound again at night. Questions I have: how can we practically define the time when the associative sounds should be played?

Excellent video! Dr. Lewis clearly explains how learning can occur during the evening. The video helps me understand from a scientific standpoint how a musician can somehow play an instrument without constantly looking at the piano keyboard or the guitar neck. The brain needs time to learn, and it will..... as long as we allow our brains to be connected with content knowledge during the day and to "make progress" during our sleep. When acquiring knowledge, progress is a sequential process of days and nights. Therefore, time is a crucial factor in learning processes. Dr. Lewis, thank you for an excellent video. Thank you, TED.

It's curious that most comments are really negative. Well, I personally loved the talk. It might not appear very practical, but I still enjoyed it and definitely came across some new details about how sleep works.

8:10 Being a puano player this absolutely killed me, because in our musical language thumb is the first finger and pinki is the fifth.

This was really an eyes opening speech. I simply enjoy sleeping as when I wake up I always feel refresh and usually my problems are simpler when I wake up. It is nice to ear that I am considered normal according to here standard. My secret is no medications and no attempts to try improving artificially what is going on for me. It is nice to see how far the research on sleeps has advanced. I strongly believe that helping people having sleeping disorders regaining the pleasure to sleep should be the focus for now. This is already plenty which can do so much good. The cleanup of toxines occurring only while sleeping seem so important as there is so much toxins created by the addictive processed food that we keep eating. Thank you for sharing. Next time I sleep I will filter out some of my negative attitude on that topic which make me believe that some companies will try to prematurely sell products based on pseudo science on the topic. Thank you for sharing and have a pleasant day.

Very interesting

I love this video, it made a lot of sense to me. I think the key here is: Think of the tragic event in your life which while you're awake and you think about it makes you extremely upset. If this event makes you un easy, anxious, triggered etc.. then this is the event you'd want to disassociate with our emotions. These overwhelming emotions that cause us harm. So if in that event you had for example a film of it, or recording. Set it to be played at a certain time after you sleep or ask someone to play it for you about 2 hours after you go to sleep. Not too loud so it won't wake you I believe but loud enough so that your subconscious can pick it up. This is how I perceive it to work from watching this video good luck to all!

Hey Penny nice to see you again Super interesting

Thank you 😇🤗🙂

“I need to sleep on this..” is Awesome!

I wish she'd talk more about how to go about actually improving your sleep rather than sharing results of previous studies.

thanks!

As almost always, this tedtalk is only about idea and not about how to start making the idea real/put it into practice. I'm so upset about it. "A little less conversation, a little more action, please"

This is exciting but what a tease it is Upon reading the title, I had hope that I might be afforded.some tools.which I could utilise straightaway !🏇

I did see the descriptions of the recorded brain waves of a person at sleep very interesting. I do replay difficult situations in my dreams, I suppose trying to resolve the problems.

brilliant

Penelope Lewis much ❤️

Many people like i don't know about sleep and why it's important to us so I think it's good video

Very useful. As I suffered Insomnia, since my teens. Now at 70, bit depressing to know that as we grow old, we cant sleep. What to Do???

I liked this talk , I know how important is sleeping , its a clear concept of being productive every day, when we talk about of leadership generaly we talk about of motivation, and energy etc, but sleeping plays an important part on it. Talking about this talk it was good , she gave it to us like a teacher in school, she was funny on certaint part of the talk, the funiest part was "el demonio" who was playing music. The shotting sound was a bad example. at the end of this talk I gave her 8/10. Nice.

I noticed several years ago that I would make significant improvements overnight. I'd practice and practice something and not get much better during the day. Like juggling or playing piano. I could practice for several hours and slowly get a little bit better, but once awakening the next day I would be far better and make similarly small improvement that day, and then be much better after sleeping. I noticed this as a teenager. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Sleep and disorders require a cross disciplinary approach. An illuminating talk !

Distracting Mannerisms and their effect on audience attention:....new title for this video

- Someone I can't remember the name of said : "night is to have sleep, day is to rest".

A little short on to-do-now advice, but intriguing and promising concepts, and I will look for resulting advances from this research.

Omg yes. One leg wants to dance and the other stand still. She did great!!

Careful how you control your mind. It can be powerful, and it can help you to adapt to what's actually happening when your body/brain doesn't quite understand; but be sure to remember that your body does things for a reason. Sometimes, something you think is pointless could be saving your life. But sometimes, your brain reacts to a situation that it misunderstood to be very different. Be cautious, but not afraid.

I look at my math homework before going to bed, when I wake up I know the answers.

I call the technique I use "Programmed Sleep Meditation." I read about Thomas Edison using a version of it and decided to try it out. I find it helps me get through learning blockages, solve pesky problems and deal with emotions more effectively. I'm glad there are sleep professionals looking into it as well.

Her legs😂😂, she has her own unique leg dance.

Shoutout to the interpreter at 3:56, we love to see it

Many TED takjs are useless. But she not only give important lifehacks but also tries to do something useful to humanity!

41324 I experienced this heavily !!!! well learning guitar I would play for hours on end eventually my performance would state decreasing when I woke up the next day it was like a massive jump in progress! so noticeable undeniable I have been aware of this for 15 years .

This presentation in itself was sleep inducing. Good night people.

Extremely interesting, excellently presented ... and not a bad-looking presenter either;)

Dammit Ted stops me from sleeping....

I jumped of my chair in excited way(I related something to myself at 14:25 ) so we dissociate emotions from that memory and that's why a great urge arises inside me even in daytime(because I sleep very rarely at daytime) when something happens to me which didn't made me happy.

If you are here watching after 2am and you can never sleep prior to that time, look up Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder. You're welcome.

skip to 6 minutes..

Was anyone else a little disturbed when she played the clip of the shooting?

Now that apple watches hold the capability to track sleep, we can build an app that would facilitate that metronome or sound (whatever it may be) using the watch or an IoT device. Could be a fairly simple API if someone built it out. I could def use that

This was awesome!

It's not disassociating from scary memories, it's processing them more, so we can get past them.

Dr. Lewis, I would love to suggest that a subject for study could be the cognitive/memory impairment experienced post cancer treatment and wondering if either chemo is affecting REM sleep (long term) or the subsequent aromatase inhibitor therapy for certain cancers has an effect on sleep cycles. can't find anything on my (limited) google search.

Everyone download f.lux app onto your computer. It filters the blue light out of your screen after a specified time.

0:35 "I'm hoping this talk will be sort of a wakeup call. . ."

I have insomnia so this helps me a lot

About the clicks, that's probably why I enjoy listening to the mechanical clock on my wall

9:40 Interesting bit here; I've always suspected deep sleep/slow-wave sleep is responsible for memory consolidation and REM being responsible for more creative-associative kind of learning memory.

The high picked cracking sound, sounds very similar to fire crackling, I guess our ancestors used to sleep next to fire and that noise is evolutionary better

There needs to be a TED talk about Polyphasic Sleep

everything and anything affects sleep so manipulating it is really a herculean task.. thanks, this gives me an idea before hitting the sack.

how does a CLICK help the slow waves of sleep??

watching this at 3:40 a.m.

The Midnight Disease by O'Flaherty helped me. I have blood sugar problems. She doesn't mention that. I realized that it is important to get more sleep so I eat something before going to bed. Why no light yet sound cues?

8:50 Deceptive y-axis alert! 🚨 However, she gets a pass because this is a good talk and she acknowledged the actual degree of improvement. 👍🏼

Didn't have the time to learn how to pronounce but yet I listen to it all.

9:40, I have a question here. Regarding the high frequencies of brain during sleep. Is it related to people whether they have learned something during that day or not? Example, if I have learned or not learned a thing during the day, will I have the same frequencies of brain activity during sleep?