Unlocking the Mystery Between Your Waking and Dreaming Brain | Dr. Rahul Jandial

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0:38Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

0:49There's different types of dreams. There's nightmares. There's erotic dreams. There's weird, crazy dreams. there's sleep paralysis and I think I know what that is because I think I've had that a few different times so I'd love to start there because this is something I can relate to where I've woken up but not been able to move or speak yeah and I feel like I'm screaming but nothing's coming out yeah what is that because that's terrifying I know right but you're asking me to like you're asking me to tackle giants of giants of mystery everything what it is yeah in one afternoon you know but but what i again with humility if you hold on to the concept if you just if you just say look that was like this we don't have to do a study but i get what he's saying we're on planet earth we clearly have to sleep right our brain i i believe him our brain is the thing that needs to sleep and now what he's saying is um that hey check this out while you're sleeping you're You're dreaming.

1:53Whether you remember none of it, a little of it, or some of it, you're dreaming. Okay? If we hold on to that, and then always come back to, like, if one person later on is like, huh, I am a cycle of waking brain, dreaming brain. If you just walk away with one thing, like, you're waking brain, dreaming brain, 24 hours. Waking time is whatever life is. Waking brain. And just to ask yourself, is this contribution to my thinking, to my emotion from the waking brain or the dreaming brain or somewhere where it blends? So when you sleep paralysis, a third of people have experienced it. I haven't, but when I started writing about sleep paralysis, what you describe about, this is great.

2:50Just give me a minute to take this one because this one I got a lot of science. What the dreaming brain also does is not just hyper-emotional and hyper-visual and dampened logic, right? That we open with hyper-emotional, hyper-visual, dampened logic. Okay. So that's there. What it also does is it locks down your body. So you're temporarily paralyzed. Right. There's some exceptions or reflexes or sleepwalking. But in general, you're temporarily paralyzed so the dreaming brain can let loose, be emotional, be wild. And in the morning, that paralysis has to come off. Interesting. That we can all agree on, right?

3:35That's the dreaming brain and the waking brain. When there is a mismatch of you waking your dreaming brain, the mind is coming to, but the chemicals that have locked down your body, right? The chemical paralysis is still there. People will wake up locked in their body. That's kind of what you're describing. Yeah, yeah. And then on top of that, they start describing goblins and monsters and different things, lurking intruders. I've never experienced that either but that's described so much so that if you go to Italy you go to Africa you go to other places they all have a similar story of being locked in the body and having a threatening presence in the room and sometimes a feeling of suffocation wow that grouping is something humans experience and something cultures have come up with their own stories about so if people want to look it up it's like succubus the incubus and succubus come from that yeah yeah as a famous painting with a goblin on top of a woman who's asleep right what i want people to go is ah i see that sleep paralysis that louis brought up was because the dreaming brain and the waking brain they don't just snap to the next phase that sometimes they bleed into each other and that's called sleep exit that little window is called sleep exit sleep entry is a fascinating one too but sleep exit i've almost i've had it a couple times at night like in the beginning of sleeping also where i've like fallen asleep but like 30 minutes later i've like woken up it's almost i'm not asleep yet that's my favorite time i am for a minute and so my fiancee says i mean this is just from her uh theories but she says you know that's you entering a lucid dreaming like allowing that to happen allowing the sleep paralysis to happen because you're half awake half asleep and if you stay there and you don't freak out and scream like try to scream you could actually enter she says that's what happens for her and she enters the most incredible lucid dreams that are vivid in memories for her she's not wrong and so it's more of just like surrendering to i can't move so she's not wrong but again so you know people are like what are they talking like if you just if you if if you keep this conversation on the framework of dreaming brain and sleeping brain, dreaming brain and waking brain, then you know where the explanations land.

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