Everything We Know About Sleep and Dreams

A tour through the science of sleep and dreaming, covering the strange states on the edge of consciousness, the techniques for becoming lucid inside a dream, and the competing theories about its purpose.

0:00:00 – Introduction
0:00:55 – REM Sleep
0:02:02 – Hypnic Jerk
0:03:54 – Sleep Paralysis
0:06:32 – False Awakenings
0:08:11 – Hypnagogic Hallucinations
0:10:10 – The Tetris Effect
0:12:11 – Segmented Sleep
0:15:23 – Blind People’s Dreams
0:16:56 – Dreams for Emotional Acuity
0:18:54 – Freud and Psychoanalysis
0:21:51 – Daniel Dennett’s Cassette Theory
0:22:57 – People who don’t dream
0:24:34 – First Lucid Dream Research
0:28:01 – LaBerge and Lucid Dreaming
0:31:24 – Two-Way Conversation with a Dreamer
0:33:30 – Time Dilation
0:37:03 – DILD
0:41:14 – WILD
0:43:00 – MILD
0:45:44 – Things to do in Lucid Dreams
0:49:01 – Dream Characters
0:50:16 – Tholey’s Dream Character Experiments
0:54:00 – Is Lucidity Better?
0:57:02 – Threat Simulation Theory
0:59:56 – Social Simulation Theory
1:01:50 – Children Don’t Really Dream
1:03:25 – Recurring Dreams
1:05:36 – Substances and Sleep
1:08:48 – Insomnia and Sleep Methods
1:13:31 – Dream Divorce Study
1:15:47 – Sleepwalking and Parasomnias
1:19:15 – Sleepwalking as a Legal Defence
1:23:48 – Dream-Inspired Discovery
1:28:37 – Prophetic Dreams
1:33:26 – Dream Telepathy
1:37:42 – Dreams have no function at all
1:40:35 – The Overfitting Brain Hypothesis
1:42:09 – NEXTUP Theory
1:45:40 – Rosalind Cartwright’s Theory
1:48:52 – The Philosophy of Dreams

sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSxeKB1z56WXo4AC57KcKXwkyIkZganp_UuteODvRTlMw-ekqnPuaOOXeWf_bu2IQu4Wip3G3f5sYWy/pub

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