Dr. Matthew Walker

no longer because science can start to reveal those.

What we can't yet do is understand which specific woman in which specific house.

So what you would probably see my brain based on my own proclivities lighting up is it would just be full of cars, probably, sports cars, and then maybe another special individual woman.

Those two things would be dominant.

But you wouldn't know that I'm dreaming about the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS.

You can't tell it.

You can just simply tell me he was dreaming about a car.

So there is still some distance to go.

It doesn't at all.

And the reason is because when you're sleep talking or sleep walking or even sleep eating, you're not dreaming because you're not in dream sleep.

This is one of the fallacies that sleep walking or sleep talking, you're, you know, stop dreaming, wake up, you're dreaming.

you're waking someone out of the very depths of deep non-REM sleep.

And these different things, sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep eating, sleep associated sex behavior, all of these things are what we call parasomnias.

Para meaning sort of around, somnia, obviously, sleep.

So these are things that happen around sleep, but they're not quite in sleep.

Because when you have those, you are launched from deep non-REM sleep up to wakefulness, but you don't make it all the way to wakefulness.

And so you act out these very rote, routine, reflexive behaviors.

You just repeat certain words.

You lift a cup to your mouth, go up to the refrigerator.

So...