Why You Need to Dream

In this episode, Why you need to Dream, I discuss the brain mechanisms of dreaming, lucid dreaming, and if you can learn how to lucid dream.
Created by: Amanda Cortex
Edited by: Aaron Amygdala
Logo: Mike Ramsey
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[BriefBrainSnacks]

Do you want to experience lucid dreaming, or have you already done so?

[Splatterbrain]

This channel kicks ass, I hope it gets the recognition it deserves. You make some fascinating videos.

[tylerfrusciante]

"Also also" is the greatest hook ever. It gets stuck in my mind like any pop song.

[CompleteMeYT]

I used to lucid dream a lot, which inspired me to create this Youtube channel (every video I make is a lucid-dream story), so thanks for making a video about it. Cheers!

[dunecruiser]

I like the feeling of remembering when seeing something that resembles 5 percent of what dreamed. I feel like I am more connected and smarter than I am.

[thchamber]

19 to 21 i had lucid dreams pretty much every night, i used to fly around and super punch everything, it was awesome. i miss it:(

[MissusSnarky]

I have experienced a sleep paralysis situation. Was kinda horrifying, but awareness of what it was helped me overcome the fear aspect.

[davematheson]

Also, when I first learned these techniques, over 30yrs ago, I had a sleep paralysis episode. It is the most terrifying experience of my life. Just talking about it sends a cold chill down my spine...so tread lightly.

[johnhogan]

I can lucid dream and can controle them very well. If I take 5htp or. Zma helps the dreams last longer when u realise you are dreaming. When I was learning how to do it I set my alarm late at night. When u wake up real quick to shut it off and go back to sleep with a thought. I was able to jump into a lucid dream real quick.

[Brian-bing]

After 565 days of hard work (and probably doing everything possible wrong) I finally had my first lucid dream!!!!

[MrHanichak]

When I was young I always had this recurring dreams that I always was confirmed in complete control over. The big things that I knew that it was a lucid dream was the fact that I could fly but not in the way that you would think of. The only way I could fly is to run around in a circle and then kick off and Float around and Central Access Point I finally realized I could push myself higher and higher but not go anywhere but around in a circle. Really annoying I know! Thanks Breeze brain facts!

[findashley]

Also, myoclonus (or a myoclonic twitch) can and does interrupt the the transfer from hypnogogic state to REM sleep, especially near the beginning of the sleep cycle. :)

[davematheson]

I went back into the same dream twice, once after waking up to use the restroom, the second time after being the 10th caller to win a radio prize. The technique is simple. Imagine standing with your arms spread out to your sides, in a totally white room. I imagine standing inside a ping pong ball. After getting a good visual of yourself, imagine rotating counter-clockwise. With some practice you will learn this ability."

[jamiea]

I used to lucid dream as a kid, but I guess I forgot how once I got older

[lilyledbetta]

I've read that smoking cannabis actually suppresses one's ability to recall their dreams, and as an avid smoker, I can concur that I hardly ever remember my dreams anymore.

[davematheson]

Here is a technique I learned for lucid dreaming. Look at an inanimate object, then look away and ask yourself, "am I dreaming?", then look back at the object. If it changed, you're dreaming. Use my technique for returning into a dream, if you wake yourself up. See below...

[nihilistnick]

What about those weird dreams where it feels like a large amount of time has passed but you had just hit the snooze button 10 minutes ago?

Also dank vampire in the beginning👍

[MrLeadsled]

I have lucid dreams all the time, more times than not. There’s even an occasion where there is a measure of agency.

[jennimorgan]

I have reality dreams here and there. Usually, they revolve around my Mom and I interacting and she is, for all intents and purposes, actually there. In the beginning, they seemed odd, or scary, or weird. Today, I relish them and enjoy seeing Mom and/or Dad again. I learn from them, I love them and feel their love in return. The dreams are welcome and wonderful. Now, if I could just have some reality dreams were I finally find a wife.
And then there’s the dreams were I am running naked down a mountain side and the flying eggplant lizards keep nipping off the tree bud that are growing out of the top of my planter-shaped head. Those aren’t the reality kind of dreams. I think.🤣😂😘

[Duck]

I have had lucid dreams--but not for many, many years. I've slept like shit for at least a decade and a half, even less the past 2 years or so: 4 hrs a day is about my average. 2 is not unheard of.