Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

I want to make sure my alarm is on in the house.

The door is locked.

I'm under a blanket.

The windows are closed.

I want to be safe.

But your ability to hear things actually increases.

So we increase our threat perception.

And we create a safe environment to compensate for that so that I can go to sleep, right?

Because what do I want?

I want my brain to be on, to be able to detect someone opening a door, breaking a window or something like that.

But I also want to be in a safe place because if I'm in a normal area, right?

I don't know if y'all have ever tried to sleep in an airport and how paranoid you feel sleeping in an airport.

What if someone steals my stuff?

You pile up all your stuff, you put your legs on top.

Y'all ever done that?

Where you're like, when you fall asleep in a public place, you're like extra paranoid that people are going to steal your stuff.

Of course, that's because your amygdala is becoming hyperactive.

So we try to create an environment that is safe, but we actually amp up our threat detection.

Okay?

Second thing is frontal lobes, which normally inhibit, and this is the sign for inhibition in like physiology.