Presenting: Science Vs. - Lucid Dreaming: The Bonkers World Inside Our Minds

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4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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I've known Wendy, the host of Science Vs. for almost a decade at this point, and her show is spectacular! We are sharing an episode of her show on the feed this week, just because we love her and would like you all to hear it. You can find many more episodes of Science Vs. on Spotify

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EPISODE DESCRIPTION:

Some people can control their dreams. While they're fast asleep: they fly, create new worlds, live other lives. But Wendy isn't one of them. So in today's episode, Wendy and the Science Vs team find a scientifically approved method to try to lucid dream. We test it out — and bizarre things start happening. We also explore how scientists are trying to harness the strange powers of lucid dreaming to help people, as well as to crack huge scientific mysteries, like: What is consciousness? And what exactly goes on in all of our heads when we're asleep? To do all this and more, we talk to psychologists Dr. Denholm Adventure-Heart and Dr. Brigitte Holzinger, as well as cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Başak Türker.

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0:22.6	Hey everybody, this is a special episode of Hyperfix because it's not actually an episode of Hyperfixed.
0:29.6	My friend Wendy Zuckerman, she is the host of a podcast called Science Verses, and we are going to be playing you an episode of the show. And Wendy is
0:39.2	actually here with me, not in the studio, because she lives in Australia. And I live in the United
0:45.2	States. So she is about as far from the studio being my basement as she can be. But hi, Wendy. How
0:49.9	you doing? Hi. I love that you said she's in Australia as if it was Mars. Guys, guys, can you believe this?
0:57.2	I have only recently learned about the volume of deadly animals in Australia. And I have always wanted
1:04.8	to visit. It sounds so amazing. And I'm now very scared. The spider thing is like, the spiders are too big.
1:12.1	I'll be honest.
1:12.5	No, no.
1:13.7	I mean, you guys have snakes in America.
1:17.7	You have dangerous political leaders.
1:20.7	I mean, I really feel like Australia is safer at this point.
1:25.4	So you probably know about this as a science person, but maybe not.
1:28.5	There is an invasive species, but it's like a harmless invasive species of spider called
1:32.6	a Joros spider that has been introduced in the United States.
1:35.6	And it is slowly making its way northward.
1:38.3	And it's about, they average about two and a half inches.
1:41.3	And when they get here, I'm fucking out of of here i don't care where i'm going i'm
1:45.8	going to an island i mean i have such a soft spot for any animal that has been able to survive
1:52.4	this concrete terrible ladscape that we've created for them a pigeon we just any animal that's
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