BYC #48 – The Mysterious World of Sleep and Dreams

We spend a third of our lives asleep, and we dream for a large portion of the time we are asleep, but we have no idea what dreams are or why we have them.  

Today we are gonna talk about dreaming.  I’m going to bring you a lot of information related to what we do know, or think we know, along with my own thoughts on the subject.   We are also going to cover several things related to dreams, like lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, people who act out their dreams, and how scientists are trying to figure out if they can change our waking thoughts and desires by manipulating our dreams.  We’re going to talk about the heavy abundance of negative dreams, and how I think we can change that.  We are also going to talk about many spiritual dream associations, like dream telepathy, precognition in dreams, shared dreams, time-travel in dreams, etc.   

As discussed in the show, below are the following links:

NPR story about Randy Gardner breaking the record for not sleeping. 

Podcast Clip:  The Nocturnist Podcast, May 10, 2022 – Sidarta Ribeiro

Book:  When Brain’s Dream – On Amazon

Frontiers in Psychology:  The Dream of God: How Do Religion and Science See Lucid Dreaming and Other Conscious States During Sleep?

Article from UC Davis:  Psychic Spying Research Produces Credible Evidence

World Science Festival’s talk:  “Quantum Reality:  Space, Time, and Entanglement.” 

Dream Hacking: Watch 3 Groundbreaking Experiments on Decisions, Addictions, and Sleep

If you die in a dream, do you die in real life? 

RBD sleep disorder:  Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD)