
...and then I woke up, horrified!
2 years ago
3 animated nightmares interspersed with a skeleton oversimplifying the science behind them.
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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.
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?
God bless that man.
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.
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.
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 ..