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Something You Should Know

How to Sleep Much Better & The Ways Virtual Reality Will Change Your Life

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Social Sciences, Science

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Of course you know better than to talk on your phone while driving – but you should also tell other people in the car to stay off their phones as well. This episode starts with a discussion on why passenger’s phone conversation can be trouble for the driver. (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/05/half-heard-phone-conversations-reduce-performance)  How well do you sleep? Before you answer you should know that you may not HAVE the answer. So many people sleep so poorly, they don’t even know what good sleep is – or feels like. For some real insight into how people sleep and how we can all sleep better, listen as I speak with sleep medicine specialist Chris Winter, M.D., author of the book The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It (https://amzn.to/2JVEHMd)  Anyone who spends time on Facebook knows that feeling of, “Why does everyone else’s life seem so wonderful compared to mine?” There is now research that proves this happens to everyone who goes on Facebook and that actually people’s lives aren’t any better than yours – it just looks that way. Listen and I’ll explain. (http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2015/April/040415FaceookStudy)  Do you know much about virtual reality? You are about to. Peter Rubin, senior editor at Wired magazine knows a lot about it. In fact he is the author of a new book on the topic called Future Presence: How Virtual Reality is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy and the Limits of Ordinary Life (https://amzn.to/2HeLUFD). Peter joins me to explore some of the fascinating and fun parts of virtual reality and also some of the concerns about how it will impact how we humans live our lives.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on something you should know, it's not just drivers who shouldn't talk on their

0:07.1

cell phones, neither should passengers.

0:09.7

I'll explain why.

0:11.2

And the answer is to important questions about how you sleep.

0:14.6

Like should you go to bed, even if you're not tired.

0:17.2

You ask yourself the question, do I feel sleepy?

0:19.7

And the answer is, no, then don't try.

0:22.1

It's like going to a restaurant at noon and the waitress says, what would you like?

0:26.2

You're like, I'm not hungry.

0:27.2

But why did you come into my restaurant?

0:29.0

Well, it's lunchtime.

0:30.0

But I have to make any sense.

0:31.4

Also, there's a really good reason why everyone on Facebook seems to be living a much better

0:36.6

life than you.

0:38.2

And virtual reality.

0:39.7

It looks like fun, but there are concerns.

0:42.8

You are memory of something that happens in virtual reality is treated by your brain

0:47.5

exactly the same way that a real life memory would be.

0:50.8

It's not the same as a memory of something you want to watch on television.

0:53.7

It's a memory of really having done something.

0:55.9

All this today on something you should know.

1:00.8

I just learned, discover credit cards do something pretty awesome.

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