Andrew Huberman

And then the other one is I am statements.

There's this instruction to give, like talk about one's deepest heart's desire as if it's already happened.

Is that BS?

No, no, no.

It's not how neuroplasticity works.

Exactly.

I mean, I can say that with 100% confidence as a neuroscientist, and I don't claim any relationship to the work, but my scientific great-grandparents won the Nobel Prize for neuroplasticity

It is a process that has certain requirements.

They have to happen in a certain order and at a certain depth of the nervous system, which is what you're describing.

And so no amount of repeating a phrase, positive or negative, is going to engage neuroplasticity.

And I wish that people knew that because it would provide them a filter through a lot of bullshit.

Do you think that liminal states between sleep and awake are also a valuable opportunity for people to rewire their beliefs about themselves and engage neuroplasticity?

So I do that in Nidra.

I can observe myself falling asleep and I'm aware that I'm falling asleep, but I'm not lucid dreaming.

I'm watching myself sleep.

And I literally feel like I'm falling.

There's probably some deactivation of the vestibular system or something going on there.

Proprioceptive hallucination.

Yeah, something going on.

I mean, what we're talking about here is – to really just break it down is –