today I’ll be talking about the topic
will nightmares change throughout time
well we still have a limbic system in
millions of years to come
dreams we all have dreams we have happy
dreams and sad dreams dreams verse
flying or even dreams of us falling
these did you know that your brain goes
through four different stages throughout
the night Stage one is what people call
sleep onset seats are onset is the stage
that you and I would know as us closing
your eyes and waiting to fall asleep
this stage lasts around one to 30
minutes depending on how fast you fall
asleep Stage two is called light sleep
roughy light sleep onset you’re still
conscious at this stage your body is
slowly sleep preparing to go into stage
three
Stage three is steep sleep is the action
in the night or the big fight in a movie
scene it’s the stage where you have a
nightmare or a dream this nightmare and
dream will last until the end or stage 4
which is when you wake up stage 4 is the
last stage the night it’s what people
call REM sleep you are unconscious going
into this stage but then come out
conscious as you’re already awake and
ready to start the new day have you ever
had the dream of someone attacking you
it could be anything an object a person
or a piece of nature
I asked 30 people throughout different
ages if they had this dream
or rather remembered it clearly 27
people said they had and remembered it
clearly and three people said they might
have it but don’t remember it but why
does a massive majority of people have
the exact same dream let’s go back to
million years ago till that when humans
first rendered the planet we looked like
we were still evolving and the earth was
still new we had to share land and
territory with scary beasts that we
don’t have today we at night it was
their hunting time the time where they
get a place something on their plate and
we were their main predators to be to
not end up on their plate or their prey
we had to develop a reflex or a cell in
our brain that
got to us and protected us throughout
the night this cell made sure we were
aware 24/7 and that’s how we have the
dream of someone attacking us but we
still we are born with this cell but
then grow out of it at around age seven
to eight
another thing that infants experience is
something called a night terror a night
terror is roughly the same as a
nightmare but instead it keeps coming
back and back and repeating or repeating
this is why most infants prepare to
sleep in the light also the phrase the
monster under its bed came from this 96%
of children have this and most people
grow out of it at around age 7 but what
causes all this in your brain there’s a
system called the limbic system the
limbic system holds dreams emotions and
memories but imagine a world without it
we’d have none of these we’d basically
be like emotionless robots don’t
remember if our childhood we wouldn’t
know if we liked each other we’d have
nothing our brains would be dead
throughout the night have you ever had
someone say just sleep on it if you were
anxious worried or uptight let’s put it
into a daily scenario you get home from
work as you watch at an insurance
company suddenly you get a phone call is
your boss they said you’d be made
redundant and be replaced by a machine
because their company was moving up in
society like many other companies were
doing at that time of course you get
angry how as you have the extra stress
of finding a new job and your money
suddenly become very tight after you put
the phone down and get worried and start
to think what’s just happened
a policeman knocks on your door he said
that your cars been parked in the wrong
place or what they call a red zone and
you must pay a fine to the police
station by this Friday
of course it adds extra pressure it’s a
deadline to me and your money has
suddenly become very tight that night
replay the day over and over in your
head from different angles it could be
an object to a person or even a
different view in the morning your brain
starts to come up with a solution
automatically
but how does that happen is not like
you’ve had a very good mother come in
the night but throughout the night like
I said your bone has been repeating over
and over again the situation this mean
able that you can get an idea of what’s
happened or what’s previously happened
throughout the day you can start to get
on how you can solve the problem that’s
how the limbic system works throughout
the night and it can help us a lot well
let’s put it into some questions do you
think in your sleep or rather do you
think before you go to sleep or the
opposite in the night do you learn
something from your nightmare or you
suddenly aware of something or even
scared of something
the more we are aware of this system in
our brain the less it will get lazy and
separate us from being emotionless
robots
millions of years to come no one knows
what the future will be like scientists
have had predictions and artists have
had impressions or that they’ve drawn
but no one knows 100% what it would be
like there could be another Big Bang the
world could be turned upside down be
dramatically different or it could be
the exact same we could evolve so much
that it might reverse and we become
monkeys again
no one knows our main my main question
is will we still have a limbic system in
millions of years to come or will our
brains suddenly get lazy because we’re
not using it as much as we were the
limbic system use it or lose it thank you