Hey guys and welcome back to another episode of the Dream Bigger podcast. I'm your host, SIF,

I'm the founder of Arrayan icing and glitter, and on this podcast, I chat with thought leaders

and experts who inspire, motivate, and help you

live your best life. So let's talk about fear. When you really sit down and dissect fear, it's

truly a fascinating mechanism. I read earlier this year in a book that you can recalibrate your

mind into taking fear and turning it into something positive. Apparently, some performers do this before going out on stage.

So today, I'm chatting with Dr. Mark McLaughlin, a leading neurosurgeon and expert on fear.

We discuss fear, what happens when we feel it, and how we can rationally deal with it.

It was a really interesting conversation, and I'm sure you guys will learn a lot. So let's welcome Dr. Mark to the show.

Okay, so the first question I have for you is, do you remember your first real run-in with fear?

Well, I think it was as a little kid.

You know, I remember a terrible dream I had.

I didn't know what REM sleep was like.

And I had this dream that these two big football players were chasing me around my house.

And I couldn't run because I was, you know, I was in REM sleep.

So I was in your bit essentially skeletal muscle paralysis.

And I remember waking up as a kid and just thinking, oh my God, that was what was that?

You know, and I not until many years later, do you, you know, learn that, you know, when you're in REM sleep, you can't move other than your eyes.

So that was really, I think, my first experience. And then as I became a little bit older,

I started the sport of wrestling. And it was something my brothers did and I got into. And

I think that's really the first time I really started experiencing,

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