Psych2Go's Monica Taing welcomes an expert, Dr. Baland Jalal, to answer your questions on Dreams, Sleep Paralysis, and Lucid Dreaming. [click to see more]

I'm Monica Taing (http://youtube.com/c/monicology), a Psych2Go team member and I have the honour to host Dr. Baland Jalal today to talk about dreams and disorders of dreaming! | #dreams #luciddreaming #sleepparalysis

Dr. Baland Jalal is a researcher at Harvard University and visiting researcher at Cambridge University where he obtained his PhD. He has published 45 academic papers and is a co-author on a recent book by Cambridge University Press. The Telegraph described him as “one of the world’s leading experts on sleep paralysis”.

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0:00 Introduction
2:08 Meet Monica
2:59 Meet Dr Jalal
4:54 Do dreams have meaning?
10:15 What are the differences in dreams of healthy vs lesioned brains?
13:01 What makes us remember dreams more than others?
15:09 Why do you think that some people experience re-occuring dreams?
20:48 Is there validity in dream interpretation? (e.g., teeth falling out, dreams chasing you)
24:41 Can dreams be confused with real life experiences?
27:36 What is sleep paralysis? + Research on sleep paralysis
39:02 How is the self constructed?
42:45 What is lucid dreaming?
44:50 How you induce lucid dreaming?
45:57 Can you have dreams within dreams?
48:08 My dreams :)
51:30 Conclusion

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