Rahul Jandial: Lucid dreaming, divergent thinking, and erotic thoughts
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
What are you dreams trying to tell you about yourself? Neurosurgeon Rahul Jandial feels dreaming is a vital part of being human.
In this chat with Fearne, Rahul explains that while our waking brain is generally ruled by the logical executive network... the dreaming brain liberates creative and divergent thinking. We dream, he says, to keep our minds open so they’re able to adapt if our world suddenly changes.
They also talk about the role dreams play as our ‘nocturnal therapists’. Dreams allow us a safe space to rehearse real life scenarios we might be anxious or confused about.
Sometimes our dreams can reflect what’s happening in our waking life, but what if what you’re experiencing in your dream life is flagging something that you haven’t even recognised about yourself yet? Rahul talks about how to use your dreams as a psychological thermometer.
Rahul’s book, This Is Why You Dream, is out now.
Listen back to Professor David Nutt’s episode about psychedelics
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show that tries to understand what's really going on in our minds. |
| 0:10.0 | Today I'm chatting to Rahul Jandyel. |
| 0:12.0 | What if what you're experiencing in your dream life |
| 0:15.0 | in that hyper-emotional state |
| 0:17.0 | is actually a harbinger or a red flag for something |
| 0:19.0 | you haven't even recognized about yourself during the day. |
| 0:22.0 | And exploring the hyper-emotional components of your dreaming |
| 0:27.0 | might be just a different look at how you're seeing yourself cope or not cope |
| 0:32.0 | with the challenges of your waking life. |
| 0:34.6 | Some people feel well during the day and they have these nightmares come through. |
| 0:37.8 | I think they should be asked about like temperature. |
| 0:39.9 | I think a nightmare pattern can be a clue to things you may or may not recognize |
| 0:45.4 | about yourself during the day. |
| 0:46.7 | Raul is a leading neurosurgeon and neurobiologist. He's overseen groundbreaking |
| 0:52.0 | science at the Jan Diall Lab in Los Angeles |
| 0:54.8 | has spent years doing incredible complex cancer operations and travels the world |
| 1:00.5 | performing and teaching brain surgery in underserved hospitals. |
| 1:04.8 | He's fascinated by the neuroscience of dreams. |
| 1:08.5 | In his latest book, This is Why You Dream, he delves into the incredible scientific research on dreams and how |
| 1:15.1 | dreaming affects our waking life. I've got to admit I'm pretty obsessed with dreams |
| 1:20.2 | I spend probably way too long going down like Google Rabbit Hole looking into |
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