Tim FerrissThe Dream Experiment That May Treat Trauma and PTSD
Tim Ferriss
Dream engineering 0:00
The discussion opens with dream engineering, lucid dreaming, and whether you can change dream content or talk with dreamers while they sleep. Lucid dreaming is defined as becoming aware you are dreaming, then learning to shape the dream itself.
PTSD and anesthesia 1:30
Adam Haar Horowitz and his startup Dust are described as trying to make dream engineering useful for PTSD. The speaker then turns to anesthesia dreams, saying Stanford researchers ask whether anesthesia-induced dreams can ease trauma and even serve as a more palatable psychedelic therapy.
Propofol dream protocol 7:30
The protocol is laid out in five steps. Patients are told they may dream, propofol is used as they emerge from anesthesia, EEG tracks brain activity, and there is at least ten minutes of quiet emergence. People rehearse a better ending to a traumatic event, and some with complex PTSD still report no symptoms ten months later.
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