What Your Dreams Are Actually Trying To Tell You
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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. So these people who love dream interpretation and tarot and all this kind of stuff, that's not actually who I found it really useful for. I found it really useful for C-suite executives, developers that I was working with, esports professionals, and all kinds of pragmatic people. logical, hyper data based people, people who are like, show me data, show me Excel, show me sources. I want the scientific approach. These were the people who came to me wanting to learn yoga and meditation and evidence based like clinical psychiatry to optimize their performance so that they could make effective trades and make like a billion dollars over the course of three months instead of half a billion dollars.
Yeah. And that may sound kind of weird because like how would dream interpretation help these people? But this is one of the key important things we need to understand. So our brain has a ton of information, okay? And the more that we become hyper-logical, hyper-data driven, the more the emotional and intuitive parts of our brain literally get suppressed because they're not useful. And the more that they get suppressed, the more that we lose access to really important information. So that may sound weird because these people are hyper logical and hyper pragmatic, but it turns out that the more data driven you become, the more your brain suppresses certain sources of information like emotions and intuition.
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