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Hey y'all, if you're interested in applying some of the principles that we share to actually create change in your life, check out Dr. K's guide to mental health.
And so we start by understanding what literally is meditation. How does experience shape us as human beings? How do we strengthen the mind itself as an organ?
And so by understanding our mind, we understand a very, very simple tool, a crucial tool that we have to learn how to use if we wanna build the life that we want to. So check out the link in the bio and start your journey today. Hey chat, welcome to the Healthy Gamer GG podcast. I'm Dr. Alok Kanuja, but you can call me Dr. K. I'm a psychiatrist, gamer, and co-founder of Healthy Gamer.
On this podcast, we explore mental health and life in the digital age, breaking down big ideas to help you better understand yourself and the world around you. So let's dive right in. Today we're going to talk about how your brain tells you what it wants using things like dreams. So it turns out that your brain has all sorts of information that you are not aware of.
And one of the major mechanisms it uses to talk to you, which I know sounds weird, is actually by using dreams. So hi, I'm Dr. K. I'm a psychiatrist, and when I was in my psychiatry training at Harvard Medical School, I thought all this dream interpretation stuff was absolute BS. Completely unscientific, and I still sort of believe that.
But it turns out that if we take a truly scientific perspective, which I hope to walk y'all through today, we will see how useful dreams can be. And the weirdest part about this is that the people who think dream interpretation is BS are actually the people that benefit the most from dream interpretation. So I know that sounds weird, but like, hear me out. Okay.
So when I was at HMS, I'm like, I studied to become a monk and was super into like mindfulness and things like that. So I got kind of like two kinds of patients. So one sort of patient was like someone who was like in tune with their chakras, like doing tarot, like communicating with their guardian spirit. And they loved talking about like the deep symbolism of dreams. Okay.
A really good example of this is I had a patient and then one of my supervisors recommended this book called The Cat by Marie Louise von Franz, which is a tale of feminine redemption. So Marie Louise von Franz is like one of Carl Jung's contemporaries.
So this is a book that like talks about like the cat symbolism and dreams and like has all these like tale of the cat and the journey to the Virgin Mary and cat and mythology and all this weird like archetypal sort of stuff. And my supervisor sent me this stuff and I was like, look, this stuff seems like complete BS.
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