If You Want To Live Better While Awake, Master This While You Sleep | Dr. Rahul Jandial

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0:50So there's been a, there have been reports on lots of different dreams, right? There's been like people documenting their dreams and there's studies around that. Great question. First of all, let's equip people with what is happening in the dreaming brain. Yes. And then what different dreams mean. So then they have a playbook at the end. Yeah. And what I would say is the dreaming brain is, this was the essential question is, okay, so you got all the dream patterns, right? So we got what we dream. You're looking at what people have cataloged to make sense of why we dream. That's your central question that we get to.

1:29And then there's this thing like the dreaming brain and the waking brain. And I believe these big ideas are applicable to everybody like getting groceries, frustrated. Why am I stressed out? Why am I overreacting? Like all the things for living a better waking life, you can't separate them from that third of your life you spend sleeping and potentially dreaming. right so i go way way back to try to understand this and to make sense of it for myself and and i think you'll find there's there's science and there's stories but there's synthesis so first thing is all life is is governed by the rotation of the planet let's just start with square one like yeah let's just get to the basic here like like whether it's like those hot springs deep in the ocean and there's some bacteria there or a venus fly trap that opens and closes or the moon and the tides um or sleep right like this this is governed because that was the foundation on which life arose right and when you look at that what i would say is the material the living material on planet earth follows that whether it's the tide or the plankton or fish or you know all migration but also the material in our brain really like there's nothing in our skull that if you pieced it out there's no special ingredient like from krypton or something everything in nature is also everything inside our skull in these brains right that's connected differently is functioning differently.

3:13But that was like the first thing that really tripped me out. I was like, we too follow the laws, fundamental laws of earth's rotation, these circadian rhythms you're hearing about and cycles and seasons. And that was the first time I said, okay, so the brain is, the brain is the, the waking brain and the sleeping brain are doing a 24 hour cycle for as long as the run you have on this planet. Interesting. That's the first thing. That cycle, it actually, you know, there was like, I love this topic, by the way. There are like people who go into canes for like six months, it's still in a cycle. Like it's not based just on dark blackout shades or not.

3:58Like we, the tissue in our bodies, the cells, we're following this earth's rotation. Okay. So if we say that there's the waking brain and the sleeping brain and every 24 hours it does its things two-third waking one-third sleeping and that and that happens for the most part you know for how long you live now a surgeon in training I might skip a few nights um so maybe I've had 500 or a thousand nights but overwhelmingly I follow this cycle too and in that cycle we have to ask ourselves well what's going on in the dreaming brain. And right away, I'll tell you, it's so important. There's something called sleep pressure.

4:43You could, you can do, you could defy a lot of things, but you go a day without sleeping. There's something building inside. You're saying sleep, sleep, sleep. You'll fall asleep in a dangerous spot. You'll fall asleep standing up. Sometimes you'll fall asleep, even though you haven't eaten. Like there's something fundamental called sleep pressure that makes us follow that, that rhythm, right? Your body will force you to sleep eventually. Well, I would say your brain. Your brain just shuts off. It builds a pressure. You can startle people and they'll wake up. But at some point, there's this pressure that's bringing you down to sleep.

5:18Really? You see that? I think torture techniques were based off of that. We saw that. Nobody could stay up a third night in the hospital. They tried to get us to a long time ago, the battle day. Really? Yeah, but second night you could do. Third night in part. So there's a sleep pressure that the brain generates. Not the body, the brain.

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