:48:02
which don't really
oppose at all.
:48:04
See, in the waking world,
:48:06
the neuro-system inhibits the activation
of the vividness of memories.
:48:10
This makes evolutionary sense.
:48:12
It'd be maladapted for the perceptual
image of a predator...
:48:16
to be mistaken for the memory
of one and vice-versa.
:48:19
If the memory of a predator
conjured up a perceptual image,
:48:23
we'd be running off to the bathroom
every time we had a scary thought.
:48:26
So you have
these serotonic neurons...
:48:28
that inhibit hallucinations...
:48:30
that they themselves
are inhibited during REM sleep.
:48:33
This allows dreams
to appear real...
:48:36
while preventing competition
from other perceptual processes.
:48:39
This is why dreams
are mistaken for reality.
:48:43
To the functional system of neural
activity that creates our world,
:48:48
there is no difference between dreaming
a perception and an action...
:48:54
and actually the waking
perception and action.
:49:12
I had a friend once
who told me...
:49:14
that the worst mistake
that you could make...
:49:16
is to think
that you are alive...
:49:22
when really youre asleep
in life's waiting room.
:49:34
The trick is to combine...
:49:38
your waking
rational abilities...
:49:41
with the infinite
possibilities of your dreams.
:49:45
'Cause if you can do that,
you can do anything.
:49:50
Did you ever have a job that
you hated and worked real hard at?
:49:53
A long, hard day of work.
Finally you get to go home,
get in bed, close your eyes.
:49:59
And immediately
you wake up and realize...