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This episode is all about the two major kinds of dreams and the sorts of learning and unlearning they are used for. Dr. Huberman discusses REM-associated dreams that control emotional learning and their similarity to various trauma treatments such as ketamine and EMDR. He also discusses Non-REM dreams and their role in motor learning and learning of detailed, non-emotionally-laden information. He relates this to science-backed tools for accessing more of the types of sleep and learning people may want.
Timestamps
- 00:00 Introduction
- 03:00 The Dream Mask
- 06:00 Cycling Sleep
- 08:10 Chemical Cocktails of Sleep
- 13:00 Motor Learning
- 16:30 High Performance with Less Sleep
- 17:45 Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
- 20:30 Paralysis & Hallucinations
- 23:35 Nightmares
- 24:45 When REM & Waking Collide
- 25:00 Sleeping While Awake
- 26:45 Alien Abductions
- 29:00 Irritability
- 30:00 Sleep to Delete
- 32:25 Creating Meaning
- 34:10 Adults Acting Like Children
- 36:20 Trauma & REM
- 37:15 EMDR
- 39:10 Demo
- 44:25 Ketamine / PCP
- 45:45 Soup, Explosions, & NMDA
- 48:55 Self Therapy
- 50:30 Note About Hormones
- 51:40 Measuring REM / SWS
- 53:15 Sleep Consistency
- 56:00 Bed Wetting
- 58:00 Serotonin
- 59:00 Increasing SWS
- 59:50 Lucidity
- 1:02:15 Booze / Weed
- 1:03:50 Scripting Dreams
- 1:04:35 Theory of Mind
- 1:07:55 Synthesis
- 1:10:00 Intermittent Sleep Deprivation
- 1:11:10 Snoring Disclaimer
- 1:11:40 New Topic
- 1:15:50 Corrections
- 1:17:25 Closing Remarks