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🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinKaren Konkoly is a dream scientist who led the first study to hold a real-time, two-way conversation with a person inside a dream, putting maths problems to sleepers in REM and getting answers back through their eye movements. She is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cambridge Consciousness and Cognition Laboratory, completed her PhD in the Paller Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University, and has spent her career building tools to engineer dreams — from targeted lucidity reactivation for narcolepsy nightmares to planting unsolved problems into REM sleep. She has also asked a dream character to swap bodies with her, and woken up inside it. This is the strangest conversation we have had on the channel.Expect to learn how scientists prove someone is awake inside a dream, why you still cannot fly in your own dream even when you know it is a dream, what happened when Karen swapped bodies with a dream character, whether time really slows down while you sleep, why practising darts in a lucid dream works about as well as practising awake, what galantamine and acetylcholine actually do to REM sleep, the exact protocol for having your first lucid dream, why Karen no longer believes lucidity is the key to consciousness, and much more…SPONSORSGet One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool) - https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeGS EPISODES MENTIONEDDavid Spiegel - World's Greatest Hypnosis Scientist Hijacks My Mind Live On Camera!: https://youtu.be/eCtRBZHIsgQGUEST LINKSPersonal Website: https://www.karenkonkoly.com/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=teYHEFIAAAAJ&hl=enCambridge Consciousness & Cognition Lab: https://www.ccc-lab.org/Dust Systems (Dream Engineering): https://www.dust.systems/people/karen-konkolyX: https://x.com/KarenKonkolyLISTEN ONSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7MApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:03:18 What Lucid Dreaming Actually Is0:05:37 Wake Back To Bed: The 4am Method0:06:40 Why You Still Can't Fly In Your Own Dream0:09:20 How You Prove Someone Is Lucid In A Dream0:11:53 Are The Sleep Stages Even Real?0:15:28 When A Dream Dissolves But You Don't Wake Up0:19:19 The Reality Check You Can Do Tonight0:21:00 Does Time Run Slower Inside A Dream?0:24:45 Trying And Failing To Become Her Dog0:26:10 Swapping Bodies With A Dream Character0:27:51 Is Lucidity A Glitch In Consciousness?0:33:37 Hyperphantasia And Maladaptive Daydreaming0:37:53 Practising Darts While You're Asleep0:41:52 When Lucid Dreaming Is A Bad Idea0:46:09 Why A Giraffe Can't Appear While You're Awake0:49:54 Galantamine, Acetylcholine And Dream Drugs0:52:17 The Squat Experiment0:58:38 The Full Protocol, Step By Step1:04:55 What This Teaches Us About Consciousness1:09:15 Who Are Your Dream Characters?1:12:55 "You're Not You"1:14:41 Hypnosis, David Spiegel And Lucid Dreaming1:18:20 What She's Working On Next.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]

🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing: https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinRick Strassman is the psychiatrist who ran the first new American psychedelic research in a generation — five years of DMT studies at the University of New Mexico, the first rating scale ever built specifically to measure a psychedelic experience, and the book that made DMT famous. DMT: The Spirit Molecule sold a quarter of a million copies and effectively created machine-elf culture. Thirty years on, he is the most sceptical man in the room about what those entities actually are.Expect to learn why your brain spends energy importing DMT across the blood-brain barrier, why the pineal gland story he made famous fell apart, how brain DMT sits at the same concentration as serotonin and dopamine, why DMT floods the visual cortex of a dying brain, why a molecule that shrinks strokes and protects kidneys should not be psychedelic at all, what the endomatrix is and why it raises the simulation question, why he now thinks psychedelics are super placebos, what a DMT entity actually is and why talking to one is like talking to an AI, how you would actually test whether the entities are real, why only one scientist on Earth is studying endogenous DMT, and much more…SPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderJoin the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend) - https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2GS EPISODES MENTIONEDSteven Barker - Meet The World's Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/gTc5QjyZuvYDavid Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5oDeborah Mash - Meet The Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist Who First Unravelled Its Big Mystery: https://youtu.be/z7eRtXV6ptARobin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRkAndrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDAGUEST LINKSOfficial Site: https://www.rickstrassman.com/Books & Publications: https://www.rickstrassman.com/publications/Substack: https://rickstrassman.substack.com/YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/RickStrassmanBiosynthesis and Extracellular Concentrations of DMT in Mammalian Brain (Dean et al., Scientific Reports 2019): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45812-wTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:04:31 The First Legal DMT Studies in a Generation0:07:41 The Bomb-Maker Who Became a Psychedelic Scientist0:14:13 The Iron Curtain Reason We Know DMT Works0:22:32 Why Your Brain Spends Energy Importing DMT0:28:26 Your Brain Makes DMT at Serotonin Levels0:29:26 DMT Floods the Dying Brain's Visual Cortex0:30:28 Stroke, Kidneys and Heart — DMT as a Survival Molecule0:32:39 The $64,000 Question Nobody Can Answer0:36:33 Does DMT Regulate How Real Reality Feels?0:39:32 Only One Person on Earth Studies This0:43:52 The Endomatrix and the Simulation Question0:49:48 "Psychedelics Are Super Placebos"0:55:12 The Man Who Wrote Down "Bananas Are Really Yellow"1:03:50 The Barking Patient — Entities as Dream Logic1:05:42 Talking to Entities Is Like Talking to an AI1:06:40 The Prime Number Test for Proving Entities Are Real1:13:36 Half His Volunteers Met Beings — And a Conscious Apartment1:18:08 "Your Brain On Drugs" vs Another Dimension1:26:58 The Entities That Curse You1:29:09 "Have You Started Yet?" — The Man Immune to DMT1:33:30 Why DMT Is the Only Psychedelic Without Tolerance1:36:12 Blocking 5-HT1A Tripled the Effect — Buried 30 Years1:39:06 Aphantasia and Seeing For the First Time.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]

Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderJoin the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend): https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutMartin Picard is a mitochondrial psychobiologist at Columbia University who just won the inaugural $1.5 million Baszucki Prize for a new theory of life. His radical claim: consciousness doesn't just run on energy, it might actually be made of it, generated inside your mitochondria rather than your brain.Expect to learn why calling mitochondria "the powerhouse of the cell" does them a disservice, how mitochondria might generate consciousness rather than just power the brain that has it, why some of history's most rigorous physicists ended up believing consciousness is more fundamental than matter, how psychedelics might work by reshaping the way energy is patterned through your body, why grey hair can reverse itself within weeks of a stressful period lifting, how a simple blood test might one day predict whether you're about to have a good or bad trip, why "no drug actually heals you" and what does instead, and much more.Timestamps:0:00:00 Trailer0:02:00 What Actually Keeps You Alive (Not What You Think)0:04:40 Why There's No Experience Without Energy Flow0:07:11 Are You Conscious Because of Matter, or Despite It?0:10:13 Why History's Greatest Physicists Became Idealists0:17:17 The Doctor Who Watched Patients Come Back From Death0:22:09 Don Hoffman and the Day the Beach Disappeared0:24:12 What Actually Triggers a Near-Death Experience0:24:51 You Are an Eddy in a River of Consciousness0:31:59 Bernardo Kastrup's Idealism, Tested Live0:33:34 Could We Scan Your Energy and Predict Your Mind?0:39:37 Stop Calling Mitochondria "The Powerhouse"0:40:03 Your Cells Are Basically Tiny GPUs0:41:04 How Psychedelics Might Rewrite Your Energy Pattern0:49:10 The Study Testing Whether Psilocybin Changes Your Mitochondria0:52:06 "It's Not the Drug That Heals You"0:52:38 A Blood Test That Predicts Your Best (and Worst) Trip0:57:27 The Psychedelic Paradox: Less Brain, More Experience0:58:57 Aldous Huxley's "Reducing Valve" Theory of the Brain1:02:03 "The Brain Is Overrated"... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes Mentioned:Robin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRkGuest Links:Columbia Faculty Profile: https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/martin-picard-phdPersonal Website: https://www.martinpicard.energy/X (Twitter): https://x.com/MitoPsychoBioGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IG2t_uMAAAAJ&hl=enMitochondrial Psychobiology Lab: https://www.picardlab.org

Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeUpgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulderWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutKirsten Cherian is the Stanford neuropsychologist who gave Special Forces veterans with traumatic brain injuries a single dose of ibogaine — a psychedelic root used in African shamanic ritual for millennia — and watched their injury scores collapse from severe to normal in a month. It's a weak agonist for nearly every receptor in the body, yet it somehow delivers a tailor-made result to each person — a form of pharmacology science has never seen before.Expect to learn why veteran suicide outpaces combat deaths, how one dose collapsed PTSD, depression, and anxiety at once, why users describe their brains being "defragged," a researcher's 12-hour "conversation" with the ibogaine molecule itself, the bizarre phenomenon of "DMT blocking" by hostile entities, why ibogaine has no single receptor target — "matrix pharmacology," how brain age dropped by over a year in a single month, and why the results contradict science's leading theory of consciousness.Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:11 How This Ibogaine Study For Veterans Began0:04:06 Veteran Suicide Now Outpaces Combat Deaths0:07:31 The 30-Veteran Study With Staggering Effect Sizes0:12:22 Ibogaine Isn't A Trip, It's A Waking Dream0:13:14 Vivid Trip Imagery: Slideshows And "Defragged" Brains0:15:02 Reconciling Trauma By Talking To The Dead0:20:01 What A Bad Ibogaine Trip Actually Looks Like0:24:50 Purging "Black Demons" In A Room Full Of Strangers0:27:23 The Scientist Who Talked To The Ibogaine Molecule0:33:36 Why Elite Special Forces Veterans Still Broke0:34:30 DMT Blocking: When Entities Refuse To Let You In0:41:22 The Psilocybin Researcher Who Believes In Telepathy0:43:00 Why Ibogaine Has No Single Target In The Brain0:46:25 The 1920s Thought Experiment That Proves We're Too Skeptical0:49:38 Ibogaine As A Full-System Diagnostic, Not A Drug1:03:36 Measurable Brain Change From An African Tree Fruit1:05:19 Brain Age Dropped Over A Year After One Dose1:17:21 The Finding That Contradicts The Leading Theory Of Consciousness1:20:28 If Ibogaine Research Got A Blank Billion-Dollar Check1:23:21 Could Ibogaine Help Parkinson's And ALS Patients?... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes MentionedDalibor Sames — Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9whp_wtCocAndrew Gallimore — No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgWrxEFWDADavid Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5oMatthew Johnson — Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHyy3aW09skRobin Carhart-Harris — No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRkGuest LinksStanford Profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/kirsten-cherianStanford Brain Stimulation Lab: https://bsl.stanford.edu/MISTIC Study (Nature Medicine, 2024): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38182784/ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kirsten-CherianVETS — Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions: https://vetsolutions.org/

Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulderWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutDr. Reshanne Reeder is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Liverpool and creator of the Ganzflicker — a flickering screen that makes most people hallucinate complex scenes within a minute, no drugs required. Her research suggests hallucinations themselves are just disordered mental imagery, and that the most vividly imaginative among us may be the closest normal-range group to a psychotic break.Expect to learn why a simple red-and-black flicker makes most people hallucinate faces and landscapes within a minute, the accidental lab discovery that led to the Ganzflicker experiment, why she believes hallucinations are simply "disordered mental imagery," why psychedelic and clinical hallucinations come from entirely different brain mechanisms, the 1960s art device built to replace the television, why almost nobody hallucinates their own phone, how aphantasia may carry a hidden cost to face recognition, how she's trying to predict psychosis risk years before it ever develops, and much more…Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:29 How She Discovered Imagery Isn't One Thing0:08:43 Can You Decode Images in an Aphantasic's Brain?0:10:37 The Truth About "Unconscious" Mental Imagery0:16:01 Imagery vs Imagination: Why They Aren't the Same Word0:18:55 Imagery, Perception, Hallucination, Dreaming: Where's the Line?0:20:36 The Hyperphantasics Who Project Images Into the Real World0:22:23 Her Bold Claim: Hallucinations Are Disordered Imagery0:23:37 Can Aphantasics Hallucinate on Psychedelics?0:27:55 The DMT Study Where 90% Said It Felt More Real Than Reality0:29:39 Why Mental Imagery Breaks the Predictive Brain Theory0:32:21 The Irish Castle Test: Are Mental Images Just Priors?0:38:58 She Made People See Faces in Pure Random Noise0:42:04 The Illusion That Turns Faces Into Monsters0:45:48 Why Aphantasia Might Come With a Face-Recognition Cost0:47:35 His Sister Went 31 Years Without Knowing She Had Aphantasia0:49:59 The Accidental Origin Story of Ganzflicker0:51:26 The 1700s Origin of the "Whole Field" Hallucination Effect0:57:41 "I See a Lighthouse": The Moment Ganzflicker Was Born1:00:28 Why Aphantasics Barely Hallucinate on Ganzflicker1:05:31 The Sharp Cliff Between Zero and Weak Mental Imagery1:12:30 Why Nobody Hallucinates Their Phone1:19:45 The Hypnosis Session That Left His Arm Frozen in the Air1:22:13 The 1960s "Dream Machine" That Was Supposed to Replace TV1:35:59 Can This Predict Psychosis Before It Happens?...... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes MentionedAdam Zeman — The Blind Mind's Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgA2up6-BokAlfredo Spagna — Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8SBHefDnEkDavid Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5oKarl Friston — Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-IZOFs4qmYAnil Seth — No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSA06K0l1oGuest LinksUniversity of Liverpool Faculty Page: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/reshanne-reederPersonal Website (Ganzflicker Demo): https://www.reshannereeder.com/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kerblooee.bsky.socialGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=DfdUB3UAAAAJLinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/reshanne-reeder-53182123b

Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulderWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutElliot Murphy is a neurolinguist at UTHealth Houston who records language directly from inside the human brain, placing electrodes deep in the cortex of epilepsy patients and watching meaning get built in real time. His claim is unsettling: every time you speak, your brain performs an operation no other cognitive system — and no AI — can do, and the structure of grammar may be something the brain discovers rather than invents.Expect to learn why the phrase "old men and women" proves language breaks the laws of algebra, how "red boat" and "barco rojo" hide the same secret structure, what it means to record single words forming inside a living brain, why the deepest things you feel are impossible to put into words, how one word like "lunch" can be food, an event, and a time all at once, where Elliot stands on Michael Levin's idea that meaning lives in a Platonic space, why he thinks large language models don't understand a word they produce, what really separates human intelligence from pattern-matching, and much more…Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:01:56 From Liverpool Bookworm to Brain Scientist0:10:25 The Phrase That Breaks the Laws of Logic0:12:36 Why "Red Boat" and "Barco Rojo" Are Secretly Identical0:15:14 Where Language Actually Lives in Your Brain0:20:02 Recording Single Words Inside a Living Brain0:23:38 The Surgery That Changed How We Study Language0:36:12 Does Anything Else Work Like Language? Even Music?0:40:28 The Feelings No Words Can Ever Reach0:42:19 The Nietzsche Line Elliot Can't Shake0:44:52 How "Lunch" Is Three Contradictory Things at Once0:57:47 Does Meaning Have a Mathematical Shape?1:03:34 Is Grammar Invented — or Discovered in a Platonic Space?1:13:54 What Even Is Agency?1:25:00 What Actually Separates You From an AI1:30:12 Where to Start With Nietzsche and Dostoevsky... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes MentionedMichael Levin — Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyMMichael Levin & Earl Miller — Meet the Scientist Showing Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNi-_2cOVtcGuest LinksElliot Murphy — Website: https://elliot-murphy.comElliot Murphy — Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=4AYNRj0AAAAJElliot Murphy — UTHealth Profile: https://www.uth.edu/people/profile?id=a676259c-6b83-45de-bba3-f9ce464344a6

Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant’s Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutJoseph LeDoux is, by almost any measure, the greatest emotion neuroscientist who has ever lived. His work has been cited more than 185,000 times, he wrote The Emotional Brain — the book that defined the field — and he put the amygdala on the map as the brain’s fear centre. Then he spent a decade arguing that everyone, including himself, got the lesson wrong.Expect to learn how a marketing student accidentally became the most-cited emotion researcher alive, what split-brain experiments reveal about why your brain invents fake explanations for your behaviour, why the amygdala is not a fear centre and what it actually does, how every act of remembering chemically rewrites the memory, why anxiety drugs have been targeting the wrong brain circuit for 50 years, what the Four Realms of Existence means for the concept of self, why emotions are culturally acquired schema rather than universal hardwired states, and much more…Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:43 From Marketing Student to Neuroscientist0:06:18 Moving to New York and Meeting Gazzaniga0:07:37 How Split-Brain Surgery Works0:09:58 The Chicken and Shovel Experiment0:12:13 We Are Confabulating 24/70:17:13 Why He Chose to Study Emotion in Rats0:19:26 His Grant Was Rejected for Studying Emotions0:22:30 Masquerading as a Learning Researcher0:25:22 Growing Discomfort With the Amygdala Fear Centre0:28:23 Rethinking the Emotional Brain0:30:47 Why Fear Isn’t Universal — Danger Is0:33:19 Emotions as Acquired Schema0:35:22 The Four Realms of Existence0:40:36 Cognition vs Consciousness in Animals0:41:29 Tulving’s Three Kinds of Consciousness0:47:57 The Brain Region Only Humans Have0:53:40 Your Model Is Still on the Slide — And You Disagree0:55:05 The George Martin Analogy0:56:37 Why Anxiety Drugs Don’t Actually Work0:58:21 The Three-Step Fix for Fear1:01:27 Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness1:05:36 Using AI to Decode Conscious vs Unconscious Speech...... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] LinksNYU Faculty Page: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/joseph-e-ledoux.htmlPersonal Website: https://www.joseph-ledoux.com/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iAqJssMAAAAJ&hl=enPsychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/joseph-e-ledoux-phdThe Four Realms of Existence (Harvard University Press): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674291003