Secrets of Your Mind - NightlinePrime

NightlinePrime -- Secrets of Your Mind: Why We do What We Do

It's on ABC right now about some guy who has narcolepsy. He falls to sleep when he feels love.
Oh and he's a neuroscientist.

fwiw - Direct TV says it is on again on 26Aug @10PM.

My favorite is "My Styroke of Insight", by Jill Bolte Taylor

TED Lecture:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill ... sight.html

Her web site. On a practical note, the basis for meditation and relacxation and CBT Tools:

http://www.mystrokeofinsight.com/

My Stroke of Insight website, an interactive place to read inspiring stories and share techniques on how to create deep inner peace

The web site is not that great, but it is a start ...

She is also a neurologist. She had a left brain stroke that knocked out her rational, linguistic centers. But she had a very profound sense of peace, wholeness, and oneness from her right brain. No pain, no troubles. No distinction between the cells of her hand, and the water, and the tree beyond.

Probably the physiological basis for love, perceotion of relatedness, and most religous experience. The interesteing point is that, from an evolutionary perspective, those feelings must be important, because there is a huge enerrgy demand to "carting around" 1/2 of a brain for those purposes - that takes up a lot of energy in the body.

So our independent, egoistic, self centered experience is one possibility. All beings, one body, all life is related is another. All beings from the past are our ancestors, all beings of the future are our children ...Both vaid.

Sorry, OT, but ...

Michael

i wanted to watch it but forgot it was on. ended up watching a movie. oh well. if i want to wait up it's on again tonight at 1am but i'll probably be out by then lol. was it any good?

Gumby, I watched that show and every time he or his wife spoke of their love for each other he would doze off. Amazing! He's OK at work when he's doing whatever it is neuroscientists do.

I've heard both of them on NPR shows. Jill Bolte Taylor on both This American Life and Radio Lab and the narcolepsy guy on TAL (I think!).

Fascinating.

I love both of these shows--my favorite podcasts.

Not related to sleep but Radio Lab did a great show with Oliver Sacks and a portrait artist (!) talking about their difficulty recognizing people by face.

I did see it - fascinating stuff. I had a coworker who when excited would collapse. She had not yet been diagnosed with cataplexy, but I'm betting that's what it was. I found the narcolepsy guy particularly interesting because what he does looks similar to what I've experienced numerous times, except at one point I even collapsed onto my desk a few times when stressed with trying to hold a conversation while struggling to stay awake. Very odd. I was aware but had no control over it until it would pass then I could raise back up. But the saddest to me was the young man who after an injury had no memory, and even though he goes thru daily activities, does not remember them. The brain is absolutely fascinating.

DoriC wrote:Gumby, I watched that show and every time he or his wife spoke of their love for each other he would doze off.

I assume they have no children?

roster wrote:

DoriC wrote:Gumby, I watched that show and every time he or his wife spoke of their love for each other he would doze off.

I assume they have no children?

No, Rooster, he said "love"!

What's Love Got To Do With It?...Tina Turner I'm humming the song now!

DoriC wrote:What's Love Got To Do With It?...Tina Turner I'm humming the song now!

You Dori? You?

I am shocked, shocked I tell you. These young people and that "hookin up!" Why, I tell you! What is this world coming to?

Oh, and while I'm at it - GET OFF OF MY LAWN!


Grumble, grimble, mumble - kids today! Now where are my meds ....

Michael

So now I see how this works, Rooster/Roster starts by asking an "innocent" little question and then sits back and watches the fun begin! Unadog, I think we fell into his trap!

kteague, I'm so glad you've overcome those terrifying experiences. Was that ever diagnosed or given a name? Was it just sleep deprivation that caused those symptoms and cpap that cured it? Hope you don't mind these questions.

DoriC wrote:whatever it is neuroscientists do.

I'm not so sure we want to know.

Dori, I haven't had any of those episodes for a few years. I've been tested for narcolepsy, and went to sleep quickly in the naps, but only reached REM in one nap. However, my limb movements were active during the naps, so who knows if I might have reached REM if my legs were quiet. So, as far as a specific diagnosis, no I don't have one about the "episodes". I do think severe sleep deprivation was a major factor, but maybe it just caused an issue to become evident. I quit working about that time. Since then I have rarely fought sleep or had need to stress over it. I still have sleep attacks, but nothing like they were back then. I also had what I think was hallucinations as falling asleep. Still do that, but they are less overpowering. I still can and do doze anywhere anytime. The difference is, the OSA component of my sleepiness has been successfully addressed, and that has made a huge difference in my life. In between naps, with the help of medication, I am frequently fully awake and often even alert. Before there was a perpetual blurry line between awake and asleep. In the last few years, I could count the times on maybe one hand that I have stayed awake from morning rising till bedtime. Fortunately my life is such that I can just let things happen as they will. I am convinced if I regularly tried to force myself to fight the sleep, in no time I'd be nearly back to the worst of my times, with the exception of having the OSA treated. For now, the limb movements still complicate my nights, and were bad last night. Dreamed my legs were amputated and every morning I had to attach my prosthetic legs which were designed in one large piece, attached by a form that encased my lower buttocks and lower pelvis. At night I took the unit off. Must have been wishful dreaming. Ahhh, the mind is fascinating.