Deirdre Barrett - Powers of the Subconscious

How significant is the subconscious? Though Freudian psychology is mostly discredited, most of our mental activity is indeed subconscious. Think about walking, engaging hundreds of muscles in exquisitely orchestrated coordination without thinking how and when to contract each muscle. The subconscious is playing a major role in everything we do.

Deirdre Barrett, PhD is an author and psychologist and teaches at Harvard Medical School. She is known for her research on dreams, hypnosis, and imagery and has written on evolutionary psychology.

Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

[willrose]

I started thinking about aliens. Then the government releases a UAP report. Thesis complete.

[ResmithSR]

Freud didn't believe the unconscious was all childish, he thought it was all about sex. Jung thought the unconscious was about symbols of myths.

[playpaltalk]

Trust me the food we eat is the dream making machine.

[eksffa]

This kind of talk reminds me on how ignorante we still are in this field of science. Wish neuroscience advance for real...

[Maxwell-mvrx]

Neurosience doesnt knows what is conscieusness so far. Neurosience believes conscieusness are complex relations with neuros system. She believes consciousness is chemical mo molecule. But she shows her definitions about conscieusness evidence arnt experiences neurosience proceendings. When she rejects neurosience proceendings what she are saying are only her opinion. Science ignores opinion .She mistakes are showing her opinion than neurosience proceendings.

[stoictraveler]

I love how you draw more out of your guests if they get a little fluffy, or get to far from the topic at the moment. Well done

[piehound]

Interesting . . . and informative. Thanks.

[avi]

3:31 How does one "try to dream?" You can _will_ dreams?
(Robert's newly dyed moustache takes some time getting used to 😅)

[prototype]

I'm so fucking passionately interested in this topic...❤🎉

[ripleyfilms]

i created turtle's punched my mom yelling nasa orders though i can be wrong

[feltonhamilton]

Dreams are the sweet spot and the end root of understanding reality and self.

[nathenwesner]

Sounds like she has no idea whats going on in my mind.

[ripleyfilms]

i eat fruit peelings can over 100 pushups sleep spread out night shift awake for morning and i dream same memory from unhealthy person in metaphor

[sujok-acupuncture]

Dreams are more of our suppressed emotions .

[Corteum]

When the conscious ego is made to step down and stfu (by an effort of will and attention), the powers of the subconscious become more readily available.

[kallianpublico]

Coherence in the linguistic mind is strong in some people. Sometimes because of a job other times because of a predisposition other times merely as a frequency that can be resonated with naturally whenever those people choose.
Some coherencies require specialized, non-intuitive, non-resonatable, algorithmic formulations. These fields can be at the boundaries of coherency or can already be propping up incoherency by makeshift repairs.
At the boundaries of coherency lies either emergence or collapse; sometimes a flimsy emergence that eventually collapses; or sometimes a strong emergence that fights its way to a prolonged instability, like agriculture, that eventually collapses; or sometimes an actual emergence, like language, that has prolonged stability.
Lately there are more "economic" examples of fragile coherencies.
Does coherency depend on internal structures or external forces and balustrades, both? Intuition and morality? Farming, fishing, hunting, animal husbandry, medicine, building, metallurgy, chemistry, printing, photography, radio, television, physics, computer science are all examples of emergence. So are tribes, monarchies, nation states, mercantilism, capitalism, communism, commonwealth, and globalism. Is government always a fragile emergence? Are economies?
Between the "Cave Man" and "Star Trek" we find ourselves. The law of the jungle or rational law. In either case no "economy" to govern behavior. One merely survival, the other exploration. Between fear and desire do our dreams lead us, towards or away from.

[stephenzhao]

0:19 ... but what are all those things underneath our consciousness and specifically let's look at dreams ... 0:26 DB: The Committee of Sleep, from Joh Steinbeck quote which is whenever a problem is too difficult by day I give it to the committee of sleep and in the morning the answer is there and I picked it that phrase the committee of sleep because I really think that desribes the unconscious in general and dreams in particular very well that I don't believe it's like all primitive childish things like Freud thought or all wiser things are in the unconscious but it's really just literally anything that our consciousness is not focused on at a given moment so it's all kinds of more primitive things or other modes of thinking and just things that we don' t have space for in consciousness (Well consciousness we think is the only thing that we're doing because by definition it's the only thing we're conscious of ) but it's not at all the only thing our brain is doing 1:26

[jonathancunningham]

Imo, I think dreams are trains of thought but in reverse reasoning.
In our conscience, we tend to think of an idea or image before the logic or reasoning emerges and shapes it into a thought.
In sleep however, we build the logic or thought before the image appears and this is why our dreams feel so illogical but reasonable the same time.

[stephenkagan]

What then is the relationship between the Consciousness when awake and the Consciousness imbedded in Dreaming?
Does one shut off and then later in sleep the other turns on? Or is there a shard or portion of Consciousness that migrates into Unconscious Processes and dreaming?
Which is necessary to account for the occasional continuity between dreaming and waking?

[rc]

this is one of the most difficult fields to study... the development of a dream recording device will certainly be a game changer...