Andrew Huberman· PhD
The brain paralyzes the body so that the mind can dream safely.
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The brain paralyzes the body so that the mind can dream safely.
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Yes, normally paralyzed. And that's really good, because that's the time when we're actively dreaming storyline dreams. And we could hurt ourselves.
there's this one phase of sleep called rapid eye movement sleep where the brain is very active the dreams associated with it tend to be very Vivid and at the same time we are completely paralyzed and the idea is that no one really knows why but that it's the case that we're paralyzed to prevent us from acting out our dreams
as we go into REM sleep your brain paralyzes your body so you are physically locked into the incarceration of your body why why would your brain do this it's what we call muscle atoni
The brain paralyzes the body so that the mind can dream safely because think about how quickly we would have all been popped out of the gene pool.
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