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49 - Where Does Your Consciousness Go When You Sleep?
Where do you go when you fall asleep?
Not your body. Hopefully that stays exactly where you left it! I mean your awareness, your sense of self, your consciousness.
In this episode, I’m exploring what actually happens as we move from wakefulness into sleep, from that strange hypnagogic state where thoughts, images and sounds begin to blur, through sleep paralysis, vivid dreams, lucid dreaming and deep sleep.
I look at what neuroscience tells us about the sleeping brain, what psychology can tell us about dreams, memory and the unconscious, and then I wander into the territory I find most…
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