Inspired Sleep - Putting Your Dreams to Work - Deirdre Barrett : 464
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Is your body trying to tell you something as you sleep? Harvard Psychologist Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. confirms what people have always known; answers, ideas, and inspiration can come while we sleep.
Dr. Barrett has spent her career studying the science of dreaming and has some compelling insights on how you can first remember your dreams, then make them work for you!
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| 0:00.0 | You are totally going to love today's episode because we talk about dreaming with a Harvard |
| 0:18.1 | researcher and you're going to hear when you listen through the whole way both about nightmares |
| 0:23.4 | and some of the things that can cause those. |
| 0:25.7 | Some of the substances that can cause you to have different types of dreams and some |
| 0:29.0 | of the techniques that can go to work for you so that you can remember what's going |
| 0:35.2 | on in those altered states and maybe get more out of your sleep. |
| 0:38.6 | I certainly had a fun time telling some of my stories and hearing even about things like |
| 0:42.2 | dream art. |
| 0:43.2 | This is a fascinating episode and unlike any other you've ever heard, so listen through |
| 0:47.1 | all the way to the end and you're going to hear a whole bunch of stuff you can use. |
| 0:51.5 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:54.4 | Today's cool fact of the day is that a traditional Amazonian drug called Ayahuasca is linked with |
| 1:02.1 | an improved sense of well-being. |
| 1:04.5 | Some new research at the University College of London found some support to the notion |
| 1:09.9 | that Ayahuasca could be an important and powerful tool in treating depression and alcohol use |
| 1:15.1 | disorders. |
| 1:16.6 | Ayahuasca is a blend of one kind of bush and stems from a kind of vine that works |
| 1:23.4 | synergistically to turn on some stuff in your brain that's usually not turned on. |
| 1:28.2 | I first did it more than 20 years ago in Peru with an Amazonian shaman and it's used today |
| 1:36.2 | as a way of sometimes accessing altered states and sometimes allowing people to go into |
| 1:42.8 | dealing with old trauma and things like that and it's used in shamanic ceremonies and |
| 1:46.7 | things. |
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