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

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... ; ")

@@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.

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.

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).

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

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🙏😘🙏

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.

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.

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

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.

Maybe it’s all that ganja

@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?

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 ;) ✌

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

@YOO HOO doesn't matter, I love adventures

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Not sure how an 'eye opener' can help you sleep. 😅

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.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

@Ruby Badilla Have a good day.😊