Part Two: Neurosurgeon Breaks Down the Science of Dreaming, The One Dream That Predicts The Future, How to Lucid Dream, and The Incredible Things Your Brain Does As You Die

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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What if your dreams could predict disease, unlock creativity, reveal hidden trauma—and even be controlled? Dr. Rahul Jandial, MD, PhD (dual-trained neurosurgeon and neuroscientist, founder of the Jandial Lab at City of Hope Cancer Center in Los Angeles, and bestselling author of This is Why You Dream) takes you inside the wild, cutting-edge world of dream neuroscience and the sleeping brain. Discover how this top brain surgeon can create a memory of a nightmare during awake brain surgery, what the brain does just before death, and how dream patterns may predict neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease. Learn why erotic dreams occur, how lucid dreaming can enhance your waking life, what happens during sleep paralysis, and why some people don’t remember their dreams—plus expert sleep tips to improve dream recall. Dr. Jandial also explores the deep links between trauma and nightmares, depression, and the eerie science of precognitive dreams and near-death experiences (NDEs). From the universal themes of falling and flying dreams to the latest on how AI might already be hacking your dreams, this is everything your brain’s doing while you sleep—and why it matters more than ever.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm I'm Bialli. I'm Jonathan Cohen.
0:06.7	And welcome to part two of our conversation with neurosurgeon and neuroscientist, Rahul Jandial.
0:13.2	We're going to be talking about some of the more esoteric aspects of dreams, like dream interpretation, erotic dreams.
0:20.2	We're going to get into, can dreams actually
0:22.6	predict the future? We're going to talk about commonality and common patterns across cultures
0:28.7	and dreams, how we can influence our dreams and how we can even increase our creativity
0:34.5	to problem solve and find unique solutions by accessing our creative imagination.
0:41.1	You do not want to miss part two, so enjoy. Here's part two with Rahul Jandiel.
0:47.1	Break it down.
0:49.0	I want to ask you, both as a human and as a neurosurgeon, what is up with precognitive dreams? Because there is a
1:00.3	field of study. And you and I would agree. It is not quantifiable. It's not qualifiable, but it's
1:06.3	fascinating. Precognitive meaning predict dreams that predict the future. People who believe that there is a way to tap into some aspect of us that understands things that in many cases have not happened.
1:18.7	So I'll give you a basic example, and then I'll give you a more elaborate one.
1:23.0	There is a case, and there are several like this, but there's one case in particular of a man who dreamt all six
1:28.9	lottery numbers that were needed to win the lottery, and he did win the lottery. Now, there may have
1:34.8	been a million times before that he dreamt of six other numbers, but that time he dreamt of six,
1:40.9	and the probability is like one in like 600,000. Like it's, it's, it's big but not impossible.
1:47.0	Or he won, then he filled in the story backward.
1:49.0	No, no. So there are things, there are, there are people who study this where it is documented,
1:53.3	right? Where it's documented beforehand. So there's, you'd make friends with that guy.
1:56.8	Right, exactly. But there is, there's at least one unicorn has been seen, so we have to dress it.
2:01.6	Correct. And there are people, Julia Mossbridge, who we're speaking to, she is a person
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