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The sensation of flying in dreams might be due to the absence of proprioception.

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72%

leaning supportive

Evidence quality

66/100

developing

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Low

well-tolerated

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First mentionedApr 2024

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Andrew Huberman· PhD

it may also be the reason by the way that coming back to proception you can sometimes have that feeling of some people will describe my teeth are always falling out I always feel as though it's a very common thing to to or you feel the absence of clothing on your body and you say I walked out and I was going to this meeting and I realized I didn't have any pants on and and you forget that proception is also about knowing that your clothes are on you and sensing those clothes

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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.

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Andrew Huberman· PhD

in dreams where we sense we are flying is that possible because of the absence of proception we we're sort of we're on the mattress or on whatever surface we sleep on but according to the brain there's uh we're suspended in space is that right

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Andrew Huberman· PhD

when you don't have any muscle tone whatsoever maybe that is imp part the reason why a you can start to have these dreams of absent gravitational pull meaning you can start to fly

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