Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

How do you know when you're making these mistakes?

And this is where all the subconscious information starts to come up.

And they say like, holy shit,

I know like the moment that I start texting my ex again, that's me walking in front of the straight.

Then my cravings come up.

They still use sometimes they were sober for a while, but I know that they're going to like relapse and we love relapsing together.

So then we started to see like, okay, the brain actually has a lot of information about your patterns, which aren't well formed.

They're not like,

They haven't been processed yet, which is why it doesn't know how to serve you up this information.

But it is serving it up in a way that it kind of knows how.

So when you start to make these mistakes, like on a Monday when you text your ex, your brain serves you this dream.

And it's like, hey, bro, you're making a fucking mistake, but I don't know how to tell you that.

Why doesn't it know how to tell you that?

Because it's a defense mechanism.

If you tell yourself, and I don't know if this makes sense, I may be losing you or maybe y'all are going to get it here.

When you text your ex on a Monday because there's a subconscious part of you that craves opiates and relapse in that relationship again, if it tells you, don't do this, this is a mistake, what will you do?

Will you actually listen to it?

Absolutely not.

Right?

You know you are making mistakes every fucking day.