Dr. Rahul Jandial

Number two, in certain brain diseases, they can actually be the thing that goes wrong.

First, it's the warning flare and people can look this up.

It's called REM behavior disorder and Parkinson's.

So I think those are two specific examples where dreams are something interesting to reflect upon.

Number three, for people who are creative, they find this sleep exit stage can offer creative ideas.

Not necessarily all of them are great, but for me, I find a lot of my thinking about

surgical approaches or creative ideas for writing, it tends to pop up in the morning as I'm coming to.

And most of my ideas come from that time.

Most of them are bad, but when they're good ideas, they come from that time.

Hard to say.

People were thinking they were only during certain stages, but in sleep laboratories, they're waking people up and dreams happen at the top speed, at the max.

We could be dreaming up to a third of our lives because that's how much time we spend sleeping approximately.

But as far as

how much and that i think is highly variable but i just want people to walk away with a thought that when you wake up your brain was not resting at night if there were stickers with little wires on the surface of your scalp the electricity would look like an earthquake so something vibrant is happening

As you sleep, and when you wake up and you think, oh, what happened the last six to seven, eight hours?

You may remember little, but the brain was going through something I think is akin to high-intensity training.

The measurements reveal that your brain is not like on a computer on hibernation mode where the screen goes dark and you wake up and it's like clicking a key on your laptop and then the computer springs up.

The clarity and the focus of the waking brain that returns to you in the morning has to be somehow linked to the process of what was happening the next last six, seven, eight hours before.

Interestingly, more vivid dreams happen closer to when you wake up.

So maybe a night of good sleep that's eight hours versus five hours is because your brain has had the window to have more vibrant dreams in the morning on that sixth, seventh, and eighth hour, the last REM stage.