Understanding and Using Dreams to Learn and to Forget | Episode 5

<p>This episode is all about the two major kinds of dreams and the sorts of learning and unlearning they are used for. I discuss REM-associated dreams that control emotional learning and their similarity to various trauma treatments such as ketamine and EMDR. I also discuss Non-REM dreams and their role in motor learning and learning of detailed, non-emotionally-laden information. I relate this to science-backed tools for accessing more of the types of sleep and learning people may want. Other topics are listed in the time stamps below.</p> <p>Thank you to our sponsors:</p> <ul> <li>Helix Sleep - <a href= "http://helixsleep.com/huberman">http://helixsleep.com/huberman</a></li> <li>Athletic Greens - <a href= "http://athleticgreens.com/huberman">http://athleticgreens.com/huberman</a></li> </ul> <p>Supplements from Thorne:</p> <ul> <li><a href= "http://www.thorne.com/u/huberman">http://www.thorne.com/u/huberman</a></li> </ul> <p>Timestamps below.</p> <ul> <li>00:00 Introduction</li> <li>03:00 The Dream Mask</li> <li>06:00 Cycling Sleep</li> <li>08:10 Chemical Cocktails of Sleep</li> <li>13:00 Motor Learning</li> <li>16:30 High Performance with Less Sleep</li> <li>17:45 Rapid Eye Movement Sleep</li> <li>20:30 Paralysis & Hallucinations</li> <li>23:35 Nightmares</li> <li>24:45 When REM & Waking Collide</li> <li>25:00 Sleeping While Awake</li> <li>26:45 Alien Abductions</li> <li>29:00 Irritability</li> <li>30:00 Sleep to Delete</li> <li>32:25 Creating Meaning</li> <li>34:10 Adults Acting Like Children</li> <li>36:20 Trauma & REM</li> <li>37:15 EMDR</li> <li>39:10 Demo</li> <li>44:25 Ketamine / PCP</li> <li>45:45 Soup, Explosions, & NMDA</li> <li>48:55 Self Therapy</li> <li>50:30 Note About Hormones</li> <li>51:40 Measuring REM / SWS</li> <li>53:15 Sleep Consistency</li> <li>56:00 Bed Wetting</li> <li>58:00 Serotonin</li> <li>59:00 Increasing SWS</li> <li>59:50 Lucidity</li> <li>1:02:15 Booze / Weed</li> <li>1:03:50 Scripting Dreams</li> <li>1:04:35 Theory of Mind</li> <li>1:07:55 Synthesis</li> <li>1:10:00 Intermittent