Manolis Kellis

And then the two hemispheres don't talk to each other.

So you can close one eye and give instructions that half the brain will interpret, but not be able to sort of project to the other half.

And you could basically say, you know, go grab me a beer from the fridge.

And then, you know, they go to the fridge and they grab the beer and they come back and they're like, hey, why did you go there?

Oh, I was thirsty.

Turns out they're not thirsty.

They're just making a model of reality

Basically, you can think of the brain as the employee that's like afraid to do wrong or afraid to be caught not knowing what the instructions were.

Where our own brain makes stories about the world to make sense of the world.

And we can become a little more self-aware by being more explicit about what's leading to these interpretations.

So one of the things that I do is every time I wake up, I record my dream.

I just voice record my dream.

And sometimes I only remember the last scene, but it's an extremely complex scene with a lot of architectural elements, a lot of people, et cetera.

And I will start narrating this.

And as I'm narrating it,

I will remember other parts of the dream.

And then more and more, I'll be able to sort of retrieve from my subconscious.

And what I'm doing while narrating is also narrating why I had this dream.

I'm like, oh, and this is probably related to this conversation that I had yesterday, or this is probably related to the worry that I have about something that I have later today, et cetera.

So in a way, I'm forcing myself to be more explicit about my own subconscious.