Coltan Scrivner

And the idea is that there's this great theory about why does dreaming exist in the first place?

Why do we have the machinery for it?

How did we develop the machinery to hallucinate a full experience?

And we hallucinate it not just cognitively, but emotionally.

Our bodies would move if there was not an off switch.

Yes, yes, yes.

You can snip that connection in other animals.

You can see they get up and they sleepwalk, right?

Or they act out their dreams.

And some people have disorders that cause them to do that.

And so not only is the machinery there for you to hallucinate this entire experience that, yes, it's a little weird.

Dreams are really weird, right?

But they're still cohesive.

They're still a story.

And not only are you doing that cognitively, but you had to also develop a switch to turn your body off so that you don't get up and do the thing.

That, to me...

says, okay, this has to have some kind of selection pressure because that is not an accidental.

That's a lot of engineering.

The aliens were, they were really working on it.

The first question is, why would we have that machinery?