Hello there. Hello again, Matt Walker here. And welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to another of our AMA episodes. Ask Me Anything episodes. This is where we gather in questions from you, find folks out there that you have sent us through all of the different

social media channels and we try to answer them as best we can in the order that we get

them. So I am joined here and as always in part because it makes these AMAs listenable

versus just me which would make them miserable rather than

listenable. That is Dr. Eti Ben-Simon. Eddie, welcome back. Hello, sleep fans. Good to be here.

Okay, let's dive straight in. First question. First question. Why does time feel weird in dreams and could we ever hack our dreams to feel like they last

forever?

I would also add, do we want them to last forever?

Yeah, I was going to say, it really depends on the dream, I suppose.

But we're getting into non-PG related territory already.

Gosh, okay.

That's a hard record. Yeah, isn't it?

30 seconds. Like 30 seconds. Yeah. Okay, let me pull it back. I actually think, and I wrote about this a little bit in a lay audience book that I wrote, I think the idea of time perception

in sleep is so fascinating. And let me give you an example,

because I think we undergo something that I describe as time dilation and time compression.

Think about the last time you went on a long haul flight and let's see you were lucky enough to fall asleep,

then you woke up. What is the first thing that you do when you wake up? Typically, you look

at your watch because you check what time it is. Why? Because in your sleep, you have lost all track of time. If you were able to keep

time quartz-like when you were asleep, you would wake up and you would just think, oh, yeah,

I've just been asleep for 45 minutes. No need to check my clock. I'm just going to go back and

keep working. No, we all check because we've got no

sense of how long it's been since we fell asleep. So that's the first thing. The second thing

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