Mysteries of Sleep (2020) | Full Documentary | NOVA

This would explain why meditation twice a day for 5 mins is so beneficial to mental and physical health.

Wow

thanks

Doing science in a way that makes it okay for other species to suffer as long as it benefits us humans... just rubs me the wrong way. At it doesn't stop at animals—we've done science in ways that make it okay for some humans to suffer as long as others benefit. But science isn't political, right?

Nova would you consider doing a documentary on people who suffer from PTSD, it doesn't affect soldiers, it affects oeole who are affected by traumatic events, whether childhood or anything that effects people. It would be greaty appreciated. I know you touched on this ,however a full documentary wuld be most helpful. 23:23

I'm remembering and hearing these tones when I was a kid. Was taken out of preschool and kindergarten to get EEG/EKG's. My legs and arms were broken, eyes black and swollen. One parent told me the other did this to me and showed me the picture. To this day I hear the tones and get the shocks. This was a military base I was taken to, so I won't put this on parents. There's been a lot of trauma. Christianity (God) has not relieved me of this. I have horrible pain. I don't take drugs or get drunk anymore yet it has not let up. I've gone for long periods of time sober over the years and when I post a comment on social media, the noises and shocks occur. Sudden shame for something I was long since forgiven and it pops right back in my head as if it just happened. It's evil. It's satanic/luciferian. It happens whether I behave or not. Somebody is getting a kick out of it. This is why I don't put this on my parents. I think they did exceptionally well, considering. We could not work through it while they were alive but we did try.

Being asleep and/or in a coma is when the body does most of its healing. There is so much misinformation and disinformation here it's amazing. Clearly they don't want people to heal.

They put many into sleep induced comas in order to heal the body and this has been done many times. I was going to say something about PBS's funding being pulled but I won't. There are so many sick and twisted military programs. I do hope they get more exposed. I used to love these programs. Eventually it all comes into the light of scrutiny. Losing all resources in the LA fires from these incompetent communist leaders! They are loving it.

Clear and concise writing.

As a clinical psychologist deeply engaged in the study of psychopathology and neurocognitive functions, I approach The Mysteries of Sleep with both appreciation and reservation. The exploration of sleep’s enigmatic processes is undeniably crucial to advancing our understanding of the human mind. However, several experiments featured in this documentary are, frankly, profoundly unsatisfactory in their methodological rigor and interpretative depth.

While the documentary highlights fascinating phenomena, it often sacrifices nuance for spectacle, at times oversimplifying complex neurobiological mechanisms into easily digestible but reductive narratives. Such treatment risks misleading the audience about the true complexity of sleep science.

Beyond the scientific critique, it is imperative to contextualize this documentary within a larger socio-political framework. Modern psychology and neuroscience, as invaluable as they are, have increasingly become tools exploited within frameworks of warfare, marketing, and managerial control. These disciplines—far from being neutral—are often weaponized to manufacture artificial stupidity and compliance among populations. This “dual-edged sword” nature of psychological science demands our vigilant skepticism.

The elites who harness these sciences for mass manipulation do so with alarming efficiency, turning profound knowledge into mechanisms of control rather than liberation. Hence, while The Mysteries of Sleep contributes to public knowledge, it simultaneously exemplifies how scientific narratives can be co-opted, simplified, and stripped of their ethical weight.

In conclusion, we must critically engage not only with the content of such documentaries but also with the intentions and implications behind their production. Psychology and neuroscience hold transformative potential, but without careful stewardship, they risk becoming instruments of systemic oppression rather than tools for human flourishing.

best documentary, just found this today in YouTube algorithm recommendation

Sleep is the cousin of death!!!

Says "video is not available in your country" I am in USA and NOVA is an American company -WTF?

"Nobody understand why we sleep", nah bro, everyone understand it, but you. The body and mind needs a downtime for maintenance and rest, it's not hard to understand.

UBI would help so much people to sleep well.

HIPPOCAMPUS: RAM MEMORY / BUFFER

L.S.D... The best remedy... Or psilocybin.,,,, Cures deep negative memories/emotions... DMT.. to realize, the events are over. and you dont need to endure them over and over again....
These negative thoughts or remembrance. are a trained behavior... Therefore, you could train yourself to release them form your mind, and memories. Whit psychedelics, it ensures your emotionally. That they are not necessary for your continues life...
"God gave you the cures. You made them illegal? God frowns in confusion"

A day divided by 3 gives us 8 hours of sleep, and that is the universal standard for all animals. Nikola Tesla divided everything by 3.

😊 carnivore two years in....🛌

support. uck you. Videos I can any where

😂 just put this video so that I could sleep

give me BMAL1

Let me help solve the mystery of why we sleep. Our body is a natural product that needs to be recharged and restored and so do our souls. That is why we sleep and our souls fly to the spirit world.

Can someone please come up with a cure for chronic sleep paralysis

I accuse this Nova show does not have a priority for the science of sleep but the science of affirmative action. its clearly picking people here based on identity that means women/non whites /foreigners. I have slept on it and say no. obey the laws of Hod and man. Do not ro b us of what belongs to us. You are to only pick people based on ability and merit not group identity. its evil. on the subject I did once think sleep was mostly for restoring memory because memory is mostly the only material thing in our skull. However it seems physical needs also sleep. it seems nothing below our neck needs to sleep but the immune syste, see,s too. anyways its probably mostly the memory. people or creatures.

Such great research but not a word about the largest group of insomiacs: women in menopause. Brainfog, memory loss, anxiety, anger, all symptoms od PTSD? Yes, but also of women in menopause. Here is where the most is to gain. Study women in menopause, please, and help us sleep again!

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For myself anyways, I honestly believe the reason that I never had any mental issues that interfered with my ability to fall asleep, sleep well as well as dream patterns which always seem pretty normal? I have worked outside for almost my entire working life.

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I know how important it is to sleep , but I can't and my doctor doesn't help me .

Function of sleep rest of body and slow down the work of neurons

Sleep means paradise

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I am watching this because I always find it hard to sleep even though tired 😂

Omg really?
Okay. me, the noobie says:

We are something like a computer. Our brain collects information, and stores it in our limited capacity brain..

We need to sleep to upload the information into the "cloud" (afterlife)

It's that simple.
We are not capable of storing our COMPLETE LIFE PROGRESS in our brain untill we die.

But what do I know, imma noobie, a nobody, 😂😂😂

I had sleep issues back in a day and stopped watching TV and news especially. I didn’t read news either. You may not realise how news or scenes from drastic movies are influencing your sleep. It took two weeks to sleep peacefully. I don’t have TV for 20 years now and I only look for information that I am interested in, not the one picked for me to increase someone’s watching metrics. Try it! Don’t watch tv, don’t read news, ignore social media. Information always finds your way to you through your community and with the excess of time you have now, you’ll see how your own creativity will thrive and how you start enjoying everything…🎉

I pray every night that i don't wake up after I've fallen asleep. yet every fucking morning I am awake.

Malaysia government have been using sleep science to politically persecuted its citizens.

1 I wish I could sleep the way people sleep just like that.
2 the girl said she dreamt her daughter was in a poo drowning
I can never ever remember the exact sleep dream iv ever dreamt. So how do you know what you really had dreamt do you Wright it down or what.
3 I go to bed hoping I do dream cuz some night more than others I need a Tablet to sleep and I never dream then..
I guess I'm just wondering how she remembered every bit of the dream cuz I almost forget all of It after 10 minutes of being awake
Still an interesting documentary

poor rat 😢

OK, I will eat more BMAL-1 enhanced mice then

I enjoyed that and learned some new things. I can sleep anywhere at the dop of a hat. I am also able to tell myself that I need to wake at a certain time and it works. I am now retired, but spent almost all my working life on shifts, alternating between early shifts starting around 0500 and late shifts going beyond midnight.

Gina quit your job. Don’t shock rats.

I have to question the use of a 5-year-old “volunteer” for medical testing!

Urbanisation and city life make sleepless nights more easily these days. Smartphone addiction reduces healthy sleeping. Sleeping is good to reduce weight as well as alertness and refreshing. I never compensate my healthy sleep for anything else.

People in rural settings, that exert their bodies physically, rarely have sleep disorders. People in cities that work under mental stress, that stay up late and wake up late, that has no daily physical strain have sleep disorders.
Early to bed, early to rise,
makes people healthy,
wealthy, and wise!!

While most animals need sleep to survive, there are a few exceptions:


1. Starfish (Sea Stars): They don't have a brain or a centralized nervous system, so they don't require sleep.
2. Corals: Like starfish, corals are simple, multicellular animals that don't need sleep.
3. Jellyfish: Jellyfish have a basic nervous system, but they don't have a brain or sleep.
4. Flatworms: Some species of flatworms, like the planarian, don't require sleep.


However, there are some animals that can go without sleep for extended periods:


1. Dolphins: They sleep with only half their brain at a time, keeping the other half alert for predators.
2. Whales: Like dolphins, whales sleep with only part of their brain, allowing them to remain alert.
3. Giraffes: Giraffes take short naps, but they can go without sleep for long periods, often staying awake for weeks.
4. Honeybees: Honeybees have a unique sleep pattern, where they take short naps throughout the day and night.


Keep in mind that while these animals might not sleep in the same way humans do, they still require rest and relaxation to survive.

Sleep is the best. Especially the last one where you don't need to wake up anymore. Peace and silence. That's what I wish for the world.

I reckon REMs are filing RAM (short term memory) into the Hard Drive (long term memory). Apparently this is a left-hand universe (research). Maybe black holes are the right hand spin hard drives of the universe where short term memories of everything that ever eventuated are zip filed for recall.

The first thing that goes with aging memory is RAM (short term memory) and with that deep sleep cycles shorten and they awaken more often. Its as though incomplete short term sequential memory codes can't store correctly. As tho their neural transistor gates are too slow to transfer bits in order, into the hard drive.