Ep11 "What does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman06/05/23 • 47 min
Why are some of the best musicians blind? Can blind people learn how to echolocate, like a bat? What do your nightly dreams have to do with the rotation of the planet? Once we find alien life on other planets, should we expect that aliens have dreams at night? Find out why dreaming might be the strange lovechild of brain plasticity.
06/05/23 • 47 min
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Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman - Ep11 "What does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet?"
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What do your nightly dreams have to do with the rotation of the planet. Why are so many musicians blind? Can blind people learn how to echolocate like a bat? Once we find alien life on other planets, should we expect that aliens have dreams at night? Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman. I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford University, and I've spent my whole career studying the intersection between how the brain works and ho
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