{"id":1148,"date":"2026-10-04T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muncbiz.com\/insomnia\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:11:11","slug":"everything-we-know-about-sleep-and-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muncbiz.com\/insomnia\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Everything We Know About Sleep and Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EfDomtxxFtY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>0:00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n0:00:55 &#8211; REM Sleep<br \/>\n0:02:02 &#8211; Hypnic Jerk<br \/>\n0:03:54 &#8211; Sleep Paralysis<br \/>\n0:06:32 &#8211; False Awakenings<br \/>\n0:08:11 &#8211; Hypnagogic Hallucinations<br \/>\n0:10:10 &#8211; The Tetris Effect<br \/>\n0:12:11 &#8211; Segmented Sleep<br \/>\n0:15:23 &#8211; Blind People&#8217;s Dreams<br \/>\n0:16:56 &#8211; Dreams for Emotional Acuity<br \/>\n0:18:54 &#8211; Freud and Psychoanalysis<br \/>\n0:21:51 &#8211; Daniel Dennett&#8217;s Cassette Theory<br \/>\n0:22:57 &#8211; People who don&#8217;t dream<br \/>\n0:24:34 &#8211; First Lucid Dream Research<br \/>\n0:28:01 &#8211; LaBerge and Lucid Dreaming<br \/>\n0:31:24 &#8211; Two-Way Conversation with a Dreamer<br \/>\n0:33:30 &#8211; Time Dilation<br \/>\n0:37:03 &#8211; DILD<br \/>\n0:41:14 &#8211; WILD<br \/>\n0:43:00 &#8211; MILD<br \/>\n0:45:44 &#8211; Things to do in Lucid Dreams<br \/>\n0:49:01 &#8211; Dream Characters<br \/>\n0:50:16 &#8211; Tholey&#8217;s Dream Character Experiments<br \/>\n0:54:00 &#8211; Is Lucidity Better?<br \/>\n0:57:02 &#8211; Threat Simulation Theory<br \/>\n0:59:56 &#8211; Social Simulation Theory<br \/>\n1:01:50 &#8211; Children Don&#8217;t Really Dream<br \/>\n1:03:25 &#8211; Recurring Dreams<br \/>\n1:05:36 &#8211; Substances and Sleep<br \/>\n1:08:48 &#8211; Insomnia and Sleep Methods<br \/>\n1:13:31 &#8211; Dream Divorce Study<br \/>\n1:15:47 &#8211; Sleepwalking and Parasomnias<br \/>\n1:19:15 &#8211; Sleepwalking as a Legal Defence<br \/>\n1:23:48 &#8211; Dream-Inspired Discovery<br \/>\n1:28:37 &#8211; Prophetic Dreams<br \/>\n1:33:26 &#8211; Dream Telepathy<br \/>\n1:37:42 &#8211; Dreams have no function at all<br \/>\n1:40:35 &#8211; The Overfitting Brain Hypothesis<br \/>\n1:42:09 &#8211; NEXTUP Theory<br \/>\n1:45:40 &#8211; Rosalind Cartwright&#8217;s Theory<br \/>\n1:48:52 &#8211; The Philosophy of Dreams<\/p>\n<p>sources: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vSxeKB1z56WXo4AC57KcKXwkyIkZganp_UuteODvRTlMw-ekqnPuaOOXeWf_bu2IQu4Wip3G3f5sYWy\/pub<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tour through the science of sleep and dreaming, covering the strange states on the edge of consciousness, the techniques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - 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