Psychedelic States On-Demand (No Substances Needed) | Dr. Patrick Porter : 1267

The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey

Dave Asprey

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Your brain isn’t broken—it’s underpowered.

Energy crashes, poor sleep, brain fog, and emotional reactivity don’t just happen. You’re running on low voltage, and your mind pays the price.

In this episode, Dave sits down with Dr. Patrick Porter, founder of BrainTap, to reveal how to reprogram your brain using light, sound, and guided visualization—no substances, no side effects, no BS.

Dr. Porter breaks down how to activate gamma brainwaves, repair trauma loops, access psychedelic-like states, and boost cognitive performance by 19% in just six weeks.

You’ll learn why most brains burn out decades too soon—and how to charge yours back up.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• How to flood your brain with energy and wake it up

• The light and sound protocol that mimics psychedelics—safely

• What gamma brainwaves unlock—and how to generate them on demand

• Why your default mode network traps you in stress and distraction

• The BrainTap protocol that improved cognition by 19% in 6 weeks

• A real-life transformation story that rewrote one woman’s fate

• The link between sleep, trauma, brain states, and performance

• How to build a brain that performs like it’s decades younger

This episode gives you a playbook to reclaim your focus, deepen your rest, and experience the full range of human consciousness—without touching a drug.

Turn your brain on. Then turn it up.

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's totally crazy what happens when your brain is topped out on energy.
0:04.0	Then you're not going to be able to get the quality sleep that you want,
0:07.0	which makes you more tapped out of energy and you get stuck in this negative cycle.
0:11.0	You don't need a lot of sleep.
0:13.0	Most people are, the misconception is we need eight hours of sleep.
0:15.0	That's not true.
0:16.0	Studies show six and a half hours is debaptum because I'm not wasting my time in bed. You know, I'm going to get efficient sleep and I'm going to wake up rest and relax.
0:23.9	In the middle of the day, I'm going to do my reboot.
0:25.5	Because everybody has a psychological and physiological low about 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
0:30.0	Your temperature drops 2 degrees.
0:31.3	Just having a photo of the sun in your office can change your brain waves.
0:35.7	It seems counterintuitive that you could use light in order to induce sleep.
0:40.1	How does that work with Grinty?
0:42.1	You're listening to The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey.
0:48.2	Hey, real quick, if you've only been listening on your favorite podcast app, you're missing half the fun.
0:54.8	Head on over to my YouTube channel. I'm doing way more over there. Full video podcast episodes weekly. YouTube only
1:00.1	videos and some wild extras you're not going to hear here. Just search Dave Asprey on YouTube.
1:05.1	See you there. Today is a special short edition of the podcast, and it is a focused episode looking at light
1:12.2	and sound and biohacking and what you can do.
1:14.9	Our guest is a longtime friend and member of the community and a guy who is a lead sponsor
1:21.1	at the biohacking conference, May 28th in Austin, Texas.
1:26.1	None other than Dr. Patrick K. Porter, who's the founder and chief brain
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