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The Futur with Chris Do

179 - The Science Of Sleep — with Nicoline Douwes

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Design, Self-improvement, Education, Business, Marketing, Arts

5976 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Nicoline Douwes is a Dutch dream expert and sleep activist. Her mission? Show everyone how to wake up with new ideas and fresh insights. While our bodies sleep, our minds continue to work. Processing what we’ve experienced and what’s troubling us—all while making new, uninhibited connections between thoughts. In this fascinating Clubhouse conversation, Nicoline and Chris dive into what happens in our brains while we sleep. They get into a bit of science, explain why dreams get so weird, and share useful tips about how to process your own dreams. Sponsored by Grin.co - https://grin.co BetterHelp - https://betterhelp.com/futur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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No one told me that while I'm resting the brain actually

0:05.5

Doesn't go on the back burner. It doesn't turn itself down. It is not resting at all

0:11.1

That is when you get the most work done. It's almost like the minute

0:16.0

is you resting, you don't even have to fall asleep for this. You could just, you know, sit back and

0:19.7

look out of the window or close your eyes for a second. The minute that that happens, it's almost like the

0:25.1

brain goes, oh, finally some peace and quiet. Let me quickly get some work done. Oh, they're

0:29.8

trying to do things again. Okay fine I'll wait. The So I want to set the context for the conversation. I first heard our guest,

1:01.2

Nikolaina, on another clubhouse room with Avi and she was talking about dreams and how you can tap into your dreaming and how that is connected to creativity and being protective and it just really turned me on.

1:12.5

But the thing that she was talking about

1:14.0

was when we're listening to other people

1:16.2

and interpreting their dreams,

1:17.7

it's very important for us

1:19.6

to not to insert our own interpretation

1:22.0

of what those objects and symbols mean.

1:24.0

And I was just thinking, that's exactly what you're supposed to do when you're listening to people.

1:28.5

Just forget about dreaming for a second.

1:30.5

Forget about interpretation and any kind of woo-woo-woo thing that you might be thinking about right now, but just how do you have... forget about

1:33.0

interpretation and any kind of woo-woo thing that you might be thinking about right now,

1:34.0

but just how do you have better interpersonal communication skills,

1:37.0

how do you listen to your clients,

1:39.0

don't make assumptions about what you're hearing or seeing.

1:42.0

This is really important. Okay, so without

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