[Music]
if I tell you the equal news wait be
more productive be more beautiful to
yourself and others overcome most
physical and mental illnesses and all
without getting out of bed I dare say
you might not believe me but the good
news is that it’s true a wealth of
evidence has shown that sleep can
improve all of these behaviors and many
more besides but while our bodies are
apparently resting recuperating dead to
the world our brains or anything but
that a whole wealth of evidence for
medics geneticists neuroscientists and
psychologists have shown us that why we
are apparently asleep in a safe space
our minds are actively processing
information integrating this into whole
new reorganized ways and allowing us to
remember those salient experiences later
on it’s not unconscious it’s not dead to
the world but how do we know any of this
a whole wealth of evidence shows us that
when we go to sleep brain centers that
activate your motion a really very
active indeed we can also ask people
what kind of making content accompanies
those experiences and without fail those
experiences are emotional
there’s something special then about
emotional salient experiences that
highlight that they need to be
reactivated it’s a time when funnily
enough with somewhat unstable vulnerable
when we’re asleep neuroscientists can
back this up when we go to sleep the
olympic system the emotion centers in a
particular the amygdala the fear sensors
are really very active in the stages
see we call where are we and rapid eye
movement sleep when we first go to sleep
though as you’ll see from this hip
mcwrap here we enter very quickly into
the deepest stages of sleep the really
restorative wants the ones that they
just feel less tired only facile of that
that’s what some people to say that
because that sleep is prioritized
anything that comes after that is bonus
or not so necessary but what we do see
is that after we’ve had that in
increasingly lengthy bounce we
experience this REM sleep
that’s the time when these are motion
sensors are really very active so it’s
anything but bonus it’s absolutely
crucial to help us with our survival in
our field what’s more interesting is
that if we wake people up from those
stages they tend to report quite
emotional experiences and mental content
themselves something like it might be
quite mundane something that’s familiar
from their waking life but it’s
reorganized into a different pattern
that makes it seem a little bit bizarre
for example you might say something like
will you enjoy meeting to work it was
normal but you were in your hometown
that you haven’t lived up to 10 years
and you didn’t drive from you again
what’s more you’re driving from the back
seat and your neighbor’s dog is talking
to you so you know to escape not quite
so normal in waking life we hope but
perfectly normal in that dream so
another way than understanding this
emotion processing it’s by asking people
to report their dreams when we do that
we see interesting patterns and there’s
lots of different ways that we can do it
we can try and be as systematic as
possible to access those Clues as close
to the experience as we can to get a
really good scientific and valid measure
of what’s happening when we’re asleep no
other method can do that newer imaging
is great but it can’t give us that which
information Ford called dreams a window
onto the unconscious well dreams are
very much conscious actually we just
need to find a way of accessing memory
really well if I were to ask you about
your dreams that you could remember
you might recall something really very
emotional
maybe even a nightmare that’s typical
because we have a memory bias towards
the really emotional things because we
need to remember that information that’s
important to us but if we systematically
sample and wake people up throughout the
night we get dreams not just for men but
all three different stages of see but
there’s still a little bit more
emotional than our waking lives and
they’re still really interesting so when
we explore these different patterns what
to be seen what we see is some
commonalities across individual
different dreams
what we see is that when we’re dreaming
up a winking lights we don’t dream of
them in exactly the same way as they
actually happens instead we do fragments
we break them down into elements of
different kinds of memories and then we
piece them back together again to create
a whole new experience and we think that
fragmentation and that reorganization
it’s really important it’s functional
what it does is it breaks those
experiences down into bite-size multiple
chunks we can play out those different
features in different contexts see which
are salient which are emotional which
are important for remembering in the
future and then we can get rid of the
other stuff so we tend to dream of our
waking lives
in this distantly associated but that’s
not always the case there are times when
we dream of things bit more literally
take the example of having an illness
you have almost been run over by red car
when we’re asleep in our dreams
you might cream of red but not in terms
of the red car that gives you an
opportunity to see it ready signal for
danger or possibly not in this case
what’s the signal for danger is that you
need to be in control of removing
yourself out of over car and also
keeping an eye is where that car is at
the same time you can take those bits
break them down put them in different
contexts and then be left with the
emotion that’s an indication of the bits
that we need to remember sometimes these
are not very safe
take an example of the life-threatening
car accidents people who sometimes
engage in these awful experiences suffer
afterwards they have flashbacks we’re
talking about PTSD post-traumatic stress
disorder
this emotional traumatic experience
interrupts waking unsleeping for in
equal measure in the daily autumn
flashbacks at night their nightmares
this is the only case when we dream of
something in exactly the same way that
it actually happened in waking life
because so great is the emotion
it can’t get uncoupled from the
experience itself it’s all important in
it’s all sayings what we do know is that
over time if we have the opportunity to
sleep we can begin to process it we can
begin to break those memories down in
ways that are helpful to allow us to
integrate it into our long-term memory
structures it’s difficult because people
who have nightmares are often afraid to
go to sleep but that’s the best in
Ireland so actually if we study dreams
one of us happening we can chart the
therapeutic journey it gives us some
hope for understanding how we might be
able to get over these traumatic
experiences in the future so that’s
pretty optimistic I think that’s great
we know that we need to sleep it helps
us process our emotions it helps us to
regulate them if we think about what
happens when we haven’t regulated our
emotions we haven’t slept well think
about if you have had a bit of a late
night and you wake up you circuit on the
bed you might get the better than a kick
for getting at your toes way you might
be stuck behind a carpets help them from
the way to work
if you’ve slept well you can manage each
of these situations you can cope with
them so this is all quite positive we
need to sleep well but unfortunately
that’s not the case for most people
because we know we’re not sleepy enough
we know we need to sleep more it’s
unfortunate because the people who need
to sleep more often end up cranky
their emotions haven’t been regulated
they end up distressed fatigue and that
impacts on their ability to switch off
at night so they intimate to this really
poor unfortunate sleep wasteful what’s
worse is that if you’re sleep deprived
you’re less accurate at identifying that
you need to see some people even brag
about the fact that they can get away
with such little sleep trunk the epitome
of sleep deprived emotionally
unregulated impulsive but if there’s one
thing I’d like you to remember from
today it’s not that Trump needs to sleep
more even though the world could
literally be a better place if you did
it’s that you could improve your
emotional well-being and health by
sleeping more doing that officers the
opportunity to dream to play out
different emotions in a safe space
because after all we still need to feel
fear in order to rehearse it and make
sure that we are better equipped to cope
with it in waking life so I hope that
you can join me in sleeping better
dreaming well and hopefully your
fearlessness will follow but one more
note if you’re worried that you don’t
dream believe me if you’re sleeping
enough you are if you want some evidence
of that and they’re welcome to come
still at any time I’ll have you put like
it was amazing so don’t worry just enjoy
[Applause] [Music]
if I tell you the equal news wait be
more productive be more beautiful to
yourself and others overcome most
physical and mental illnesses and all
without getting out of bed I dare say
you might not believe me but the good
news is that it’s true a wealth of
evidence has shown that sleep can
improve all of these behaviors and many
more besides but while our bodies are
apparently resting recuperating dead to
the world our brains or anything but
that a whole wealth of evidence for
medics geneticists neuroscientists and
psychologists have shown us that why we
are apparently asleep in a safe space
our minds are actively processing
information integrating this into whole
new reorganized ways and allowing us to
remember those salient experiences later
on it’s not unconscious it’s not dead to
the world but how do we know any of this
a whole wealth of evidence shows us that
when we go to sleep brain centers that
activate your motion a really very
active indeed we can also ask people
what kind of making content accompanies
those experiences and without fail those
experiences are emotional
there’s something special then about
emotional salient experiences that
highlight that they need to be
reactivated it’s a time when funnily
enough with somewhat unstable vulnerable
when we’re asleep neuroscientists can
back this up when we go to sleep the
olympic system the emotion centers in a
particular the amygdala the fear sensors
are really very active in the stages
see we call where are we and rapid eye
movement sleep when we first go to sleep
though as you’ll see from this hip
mcwrap here we enter very quickly into
the deepest stages of sleep the really
restorative wants the ones that they
just feel less tired only facile of that
that’s what some people to say that
because that sleep is prioritized
anything that comes after that is bonus
or not so necessary but what we do see
is that after we’ve had that in
increasingly lengthy bounce we
experience this REM sleep
that’s the time when these are motion
sensors are really very active so it’s
anything but bonus it’s absolutely
crucial to help us with our survival in
our field what’s more interesting is
that if we wake people up from those
stages they tend to report quite
emotional experiences and mental content
themselves something like it might be
quite mundane something that’s familiar
from their waking life but it’s
reorganized into a different pattern
that makes it seem a little bit bizarre
for example you might say something like
will you enjoy meeting to work it was
normal but you were in your hometown
that you haven’t lived up to 10 years
and you didn’t drive from you again
what’s more you’re driving from the back
seat and your neighbor’s dog is talking
to you so you know to escape not quite
so normal in waking life we hope but
perfectly normal in that dream so
another way than understanding this
emotion processing it’s by asking people
to report their dreams when we do that
we see interesting patterns and there’s
lots of different ways that we can do it
we can try and be as systematic as
possible to access those Clues as close
to the experience as we can to get a
really good scientific and valid measure
of what’s happening when we’re asleep no
other method can do that newer imaging
is great but it can’t give us that which
information Ford called dreams a window
onto the unconscious well dreams are
very much conscious actually we just
need to find a way of accessing memory
really well if I were to ask you about
your dreams that you could remember
you might recall something really very
emotional
maybe even a nightmare that’s typical
because we have a memory bias towards
the really emotional things because we
need to remember that information that’s
important to us but if we systematically
sample and wake people up throughout the
night we get dreams not just for men but
all three different stages of see but
there’s still a little bit more
emotional than our waking lives and
they’re still really interesting so when
we explore these different patterns what
to be seen what we see is some
commonalities across individual
different dreams
what we see is that when we’re dreaming
up a winking lights we don’t dream of
them in exactly the same way as they
actually happens instead we do fragments
we break them down into elements of
different kinds of memories and then we
piece them back together again to create
a whole new experience and we think that
fragmentation and that reorganization
it’s really important it’s functional
what it does is it breaks those
experiences down into bite-size multiple
chunks we can play out those different
features in different contexts see which
are salient which are emotional which
are important for remembering in the
future and then we can get rid of the
other stuff so we tend to dream of our
waking lives
in this distantly associated but that’s
not always the case there are times when
we dream of things bit more literally
take the example of having an illness
you have almost been run over by red car
when we’re asleep in our dreams
you might cream of red but not in terms
of the red car that gives you an
opportunity to see it ready signal for
danger or possibly not in this case
what’s the signal for danger is that you
need to be in control of removing
yourself out of over car and also
keeping an eye is where that car is at
the same time you can take those bits
break them down put them in different
contexts and then be left with the
emotion that’s an indication of the bits
that we need to remember sometimes these
are not very safe
take an example of the life-threatening
car accidents people who sometimes
engage in these awful experiences suffer
afterwards they have flashbacks we’re
talking about PTSD post-traumatic stress
disorder
this emotional traumatic experience
interrupts waking unsleeping for in
equal measure in the daily autumn
flashbacks at night their nightmares
this is the only case when we dream of
something in exactly the same way that
it actually happened in waking life
because so great is the emotion
it can’t get uncoupled from the
experience itself it’s all important in
it’s all sayings what we do know is that
over time if we have the opportunity to
sleep we can begin to process it we can
begin to break those memories down in
ways that are helpful to allow us to
integrate it into our long-term memory
structures it’s difficult because people
who have nightmares are often afraid to
go to sleep but that’s the best in
Ireland so actually if we study dreams
one of us happening we can chart the
therapeutic journey it gives us some
hope for understanding how we might be
able to get over these traumatic
experiences in the future so that’s
pretty optimistic I think that’s great
we know that we need to sleep it helps
us process our emotions it helps us to
regulate them if we think about what
happens when we haven’t regulated our
emotions we haven’t slept well think
about if you have had a bit of a late
night and you wake up you circuit on the
bed you might get the better than a kick
for getting at your toes way you might
be stuck behind a carpets help them from
the way to work
if you’ve slept well you can manage each
of these situations you can cope with
them so this is all quite positive we
need to sleep well but unfortunately
that’s not the case for most people
because we know we’re not sleepy enough
we know we need to sleep more it’s
unfortunate because the people who need
to sleep more often end up cranky
their emotions haven’t been regulated
they end up distressed fatigue and that
impacts on their ability to switch off
at night so they intimate to this really
poor unfortunate sleep wasteful what’s
worse is that if you’re sleep deprived
you’re less accurate at identifying that
you need to see some people even brag
about the fact that they can get away
with such little sleep trunk the epitome
of sleep deprived emotionally
unregulated impulsive but if there’s one
thing I’d like you to remember from
today it’s not that Trump needs to sleep
more even though the world could
literally be a better place if you did
it’s that you could improve your
emotional well-being and health by
sleeping more doing that officers the
opportunity to dream to play out
different emotions in a safe space
because after all we still need to feel
fear in order to rehearse it and make
sure that we are better equipped to cope
with it in waking life so I hope that
you can join me in sleeping better
dreaming well and hopefully your
fearlessness will follow but one more
note if you’re worried that you don’t
dream believe me if you’re sleeping
enough you are if you want some evidence
of that and they’re welcome to come
still at any time I’ll have you put like
it was amazing so don’t worry just enjoy
[Applause] [Music]
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