finally, alcohol will actually block something called rem sleep or dream sleep. which we know is important for things like learning, memory, creativity, regulating your mood and emotion. trying to stay away from those two things, four to six hours before bed is critical. all great advice, hopefully, we can all get a good fight s sleep, starting tonight after hearing your advice, professor matthew walker, u.c. berkeley, thank you so much. thanks so much. all right. he helped janice dickinson write her book, which was on book shelves starting in 2002, now he s coming forward to confirm her claim that bill cosby raped her in her words. you will hear what the ghost writer knew and when coming up.
now. nice to see you, doc. what exactly does this do? give us control of our dreams? it can, believe it or not. 80% of us actually have lucid dreams where you are a conscious awareness while you re sleeping that you re dreaming and can actually then try to control your dreams. and this device helps to support that process. how? well, what it does is someone is using a vacuum cleaner in your sleep, that noise may become part of the dream. you may dream that a lion is roaring. so what this device does is recognizes eye movements and brain wave activity that is associated with dream sleep. and when it recognizes that, it will flash and make noises to trigger your brain while you re sleeping to get you into the awareness that you re in a dream. so why would we want to control our dreams? well, believe it or not, it certainly could be fun. flying around and doing things you couldn t do
in dream sleep we lose complete sense of position, time. you re in a dream and suddenly you re in moscow and then you re in montreal. we make these wild transitions and we never think about it. what happens is position sense is turned off. the 99% of people fly in their dreams. that s fascinating. then there s another flipside to that, the falling dream. can you explain that one? falling is the same kind of thing. you re going through a place and you don t know how the heck you came to the next spot. so, many people who fly also fall. but they usually find flying a heck of a lot more fun than falling. the good part is even when they fall, they re really okay. of course. here is one that is always interesting to me, the dreams of public nudity. i mean, contrary to what some are thinking, it s not a dream about being an exhibitionist, am i right? absolutely not. in a time when people are worried about tsa with body scanners and getting pat-downs,
they don t function well. so the actual message of the study is balance yourself out during the week. balance yourself. is there some sort of cycle we need to be on that s better than catching up? there s a you should be on a very good regimened cycle and try to get yourself into a good habit getting good prebed sleep habits as well. when you get into bed, you re nice and relaxed. turn the lights down and you want to get 7 to 7 1/2 hours of sleep. that s the optimal amount of time. that s the key. the key is how much time you spend in deep rapid eye movement sleep and to get there, it takes a couple of hours. so that s why you have to do that every single night. fans of fox & friends anchors are going to say you can t you guys can t make it up when you have your four hours of sleep getting here at 3:00 a.m. it s the key the key is the dream sleep. movies like inception not withstanding it s about dreams. let s talk about beer. a new study saying beer is better than