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3 animated nightmares interspersed with a skeleton oversimplifying the science behind them.

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  • this is really freaky seth. haha
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  • mitch phillips 2 years ago
    scary, but cool 3d construction paper animation
  • walt 1 year ago
    he helza copied you.
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  • Adam Robinson 2 years ago
    I love all of the textures!
    The TV screens with the marker on them and the how you used them as kind of like mirrors for the people talking...it's really great stuff.
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  • Blake Whitman staff 1 year ago
    very original.
  • seth welton 1 year ago
    thank you. that means a lot coming from someone who must watch as many videos as you do. i appreciate the 'staff choice' too.
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  • Hover Donkey 1 year ago
    Great vid. And loved your choice of credits music - the Pixies fit the mood of the vid perfectly.
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  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    This is great. (does it need deinterlacing?)
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  • Michael P. Steeves 1 year ago
    I liked the interlacing actually,
    I felt it matched the useage of the tv screen
    and the colors and the construction paper,
    and the retro feel of the animation. Cool stuff.
    Very creepy and where can we get some Dopamine?
  • seth welton 1 year ago
    According to a University of Michigan study dopamine is released by your brain according to the amount of pain your in... so do something that hurts.
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  • malcolm man 1 year ago
    wow. I really liked this. I'm really interested in how you accomplished some of these effects. The actullay look like real projection type stuff, really cool. Kinda reminds me of Michel gondry's early work.
  • seth welton 1 year ago
    everything in the video was done in front of the camera with a tv, 2 video cameras, and some paper. It was definitely heavily inspired by Gondry's early music videos.
    God bless that man.
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  • coldarchon 1 year ago
    well you tried to oversimplify the nightmares and then explain them by transmitters. this is typical for western medicine. curing the symptoms, not the disease.

    take a closer look at the anatomy of sleep paralysis, almost every nightmare can be reduced to a discrepancy between an instinct of the brain stem and the connected action pattern in the cerebrum. the unability of working out the action pattern due to the disconnected body creates a very simple alarm, angst.
    example 1:
    take a look at the cut between cerebrum and spinal cord during sleep paralysis. when you are stressed you have a higher need to breathe, which you can´t do yourself when in sleep paralysis. your brain stem is breathing for you, but you don´t even get the feed-back that you breath, the cut is both ways.
    ever had a nightmare about drowning?
    example 2:
    homo sapiens sapiens is a carnivore, his eyes are next to each other to focus a prey. he has to turn his head to look around and make sure he is safe. the interface for moving his head by several muscles in his neck is the intersection of the motion possibilities, the forehead. so you want to turn your head with your cerebrum by moving the forehead but can´t reach the muscles in your neck with your spinal cord.
    ever had a nightmare about being persecuted?

    nightmares have their impact during rem-phase, but their origin is before it begins or after it ends.

    it´s a creative and nice video though, good work.
  • seth welton 1 year ago
    you make a valid point, but I think it's very inaccurate to say that most nightmares are associated with the mind being unable to work out action patterns.
    It is certainly true of some dream/nightmare archetypes (being chased, falling, drowning, etc), but most of my own dreams are much more psychological in nature (being late, friends hating me, being unable to remember something important).
    This should indicate that dreams are much more than just the pons going crazy while the thalamus is deactivated.

    I should have concluded this video with the same line I started it with, "the brain is a very mysterious organ."

    I believe mankind will be long extinct before we'd have any idea of what really happens when we close our eyes.
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  • coldarchon 1 year ago
    actually when you close your eyes and fall asleep you can see the last lights again that you saw before you closed them. it´s like as if you looked into the sun for too long. the light spots even change their colours and fade away. due to sensory deprivation the control structures that create the expectancy value for the input become the input themself. everything we perceive is controlled by a structure, and all these structures discharge. that´s why one of your legs twitches sometimes and you are unable to suppress it, the expectancy value for making one step after the other gets discharged in your spinal cord.

    nightmares are simply dreams connected with one emotion, angst. everything we remember is connected to an emotion. that´s why we don´t remember unimportant dreams or things that happen in our life. only the important, weird or the frightening ones. but angst is an emotion that defines something we don´t know. once we know it, we feel superior and don´t feel angst anymore. then not being able to breathe doesn´t make us think we are drowning, we become a fish and love to swim in the water. it´s all in your head, don´t be a victim ..
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  • Domi Barranquero 1 year ago
    Great video! Cheers from Spain! :))
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