Strange Facts About Dreams - Jordan Peterson

Speaker: Jordan Peterson Thanks for watching!
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[laurieparis]

In both life and dreams I am simultaneously present as observer, creator and pawn.

The only two difference for me between waking and dreams, is that fantastical and extreme things happen in my dreams, and that there are no lasting consequences in dream time, save a passing mood on awakening.

[buddyrichable]

I was having a very pleasant dream,
and in the dream I thought to myself “am I dreaming, or is this really happening?” I tried shaking myself awake and I realized that I wasn’t dreaming and was ecstatic that it was real.
Then I actually woke up and was totally confused for a few minutes,
It was messed up.

[chickey]

Roy Orbison pontificated on the subject of dreams better than anyone else ever did.
"It's too bad that all these things
Can only happen in my dreams..."

[concongaming]

I vaguely remember when I was around 10 years old I could replay the dreams I previously had. I would play back a scary one and take control of it. Just a really cool thing I remember

[ronzak]

When he's good, he's very very good.

[saarapollonen]

I saw a dream where I was a spectator of a movie in a theatre, at the same time I was directing that same movie and I also played the main role. My consciousness was on three places at the same time or four since there was someone seeing all three of them. That was pretty wild.

[jackfrenyea]

My favorite part of Peterson's talking style is perfectly displayed here. He shows his students a phenomenon from THREE different scientific ideological perspectives. without having them bicker with each other. absolutely amazing.

[nikmacfarlane]

I love the concepts surrounding consciousness, and glad to see Peterson touch on it.

[TomScott__]

I'm an active participant in my dreams and have been since I had repeated nightmares at the age of 8. The only way I could stop fearing my nightmares is to learn to control them. I no longer have nightmares and my dreams are only bad if I choose for them to continue that way.
It's called lucid dreaming. Our dreams belong to us. We write, produce, direct and act in our dreams. We can do anything we want in them. We can fly, fight, shoot, drive, love, transform scary things into none scary things and anything else that you can think of. Learn to take control of your dreams and experience the amazing world that it is especially if you have trauma haunting you in your dreams.

[Palindas]

I've had only 2 dreams I never wanted to wake up from. But man, were they great!

[debbietirozzi]

I never thought of this. How amazing to realize what sanarieo you might put yourself in.
I really love the way he sees these things. It really expands the mind to new ways of thinking

[jeannettehope]

I am an active agent in my dreams, not an observer of my actions. I do observe the landscape and location and sometimes these are strange, but I observe them in the same way that I observe the environment I'm moving in when I'm awake.

[JackManic]

I always have a moment in my dream where I become aware of it. The moment that happens I can guide or steer the dream wherever.

[lsixty]

The you that you identify with gave me chills

[rjperkins]

Dreams are your peripheral vision, your feelings, your voice that helps you make decisions. The part that takes in everything you yourself don't think you're aware of. That's why a lot of the times it's good to trust your feelings/instincts, but it's not magical when you're right. You don't know how much info you really took in.

[danholtby]

I used to dream that something was chasing me!! And I would run scared to death, over what seemed to be big pillows until I reached this wall that I couldn't get over!! And was waiting for whatever was chasing me, to finally catch me !! And that was the scariest part!! I've interacted in my dreams since I was a child!!

[veritas]

Sometimes I can't figure out whether I'm the observer or the actor. It feels like I'm in 1st person view and I'm making decisions, but I'm not sober enough to make a solid decision based on rational thought until I realise that I am in a dream.

And the way that I realise that is because I only dream about tragedies that could occur to me. Falling down a flight of stairs and having my teeth all fallout, a dragon breathing fire into my apartment, but my denial stage of grief gives me an impulse to have the first complex thought, "I am in a dream".

That used to be scary. I was stuck in a parallel for hours and I don't know what horrible thing could happen to me before I woke up. Now I just remember to open my eyes.

But there are times when I wake up from a dream, go back to sleep, and go back into the same dream. Then it takes a while before I actively awake from it. But if that's the case, was waking up a dream?

[beinghimself]

It’s just that when you imagine yourself doing something you’re -without knowing it- are an observer. It’s the same thing when it’s a dream. Sometimes when i get too deep into my imagination and close my eyes, i completely think i had a dream while i didn’t even sleep

[BoringFlightVids]

A lack of awareness makes the dream. Gain awareness in your dream and you gain all control. And actually when i lucid dream the entire dream stops. The people stop talking. The cars stop moving...and they all face me. As if to ask "what is your command". Creeped me out the first time. Now its how i know for sure im in the dream realm

[kimora]

I had 1 dream where I was watching something happen to my youngest son.. and then suddenly I was looking through his eyes and seeing it happened from his perspective.. very vivid and the event actually did happen about a week later