There's nothing quite like a good night's sleep. What if technology could help us get more out of it? Dan Gartenberg is working on tech that stimulates deep sleep, the most regenerative stage which (among other wonderful things) might help us consolidate our memories and form our personalities. Find out more about how playing sounds that mirror brain waves during this stage might lead to deeper sleep — and its potential benefits on our health, memory and ability to learn.
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Wow the human brain is so Interesting
Well now I want such a device.
Thatt’s why this is a paid advertisement like most ted talks.
J Bringgs – Since they have an actual patent for the technology and received a governmental funding, it is more like a beta-phase experiment.
The App is called “Sonic Sleep Coach Alarm Clock” by Proactive Life LLC.
It is very cheap but the more interesting functions are only in the Premium subscribtion.
no, the guy sells apps and has a consulting service. He paid TED to give a talk. You know the last TED talk about how handbags fund terrorism? that was also paid. That guy was an employee of Tommy Hilfiger. A huge fraction of TED talks are funded by companies for their own interest.
I don’t speak and/or care for other talks – they don’t play an adequate argument for your criticism.
This one has inherent public interest by being sponsored by it:
http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R43-AG056250-01
http://danielgartenberg.com/
4:55 to 5:18 I will pray until this becomes a meme.
so who wants to be first to make a new meme
Big Shaq – Mans Not Hot
Timmy Trumpet & Savage – Freaks
Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars
Stefán Karl Stefánsson – We Are Number One
You missed most of the heavy hitters my dude.
+the sqooq ROFL URE A FKN GENIUS
Shrek’s Get out of my swamp
dank potential
He makes me sleep by the way he talks
Pascal filosa Same
Tru
The noise sounded like whats called “pink or white noise” i wish he would have elaborated more on the sound he played… super interesting
Yep, sounds like white noise with the volume changing rhythmically.
I guess flooding the brain with such a broad spectrum of frequencies in the right manner could “sync” the brain waves to that sound and so make the deep sleep more efficient or something. At least that’s how I imagine it.
Chris Fokjohn They do sound like waves hitting the shore! No wonder I seem to sleep better in beach resorts.
I don’t think pink or white is important. It is probably the pulsations of it that are thought to drive Delta waves since they occured about as fast as delta waves–somewhere between 1 every two seconds and 4 per second.
it has nothing to do with waves on shore. the shore repetition frequency is too slow.
Skip to 4:40 to avoid wasting time with facts you already know. Then you learn that a device yet to be marketed that matches the brain wave patterns of deep sleep may help achieve that stage.
You could also give the man his 5 minutes
Larry Vickery thanks for saving my time.
+Larry “tl;dw” Vickery
Fascinating talk!
Made me tired
We need to sleep more
Sounds like waves breaking on a strand… funnily enough.
This is very exciting! Great work! Thanks for sharing.
So the irony is: watching it, eating popcorn at midnight instead of sleeping!!
(School tomorrow)
What girl… No that’s not how it works!
I normally don’t have more than 5 hours sleep sometimes 4 hours for the past 3 years.
Randy King go see a doctor dude, that’s rlly bad for u
Melatonin my friend, it is a miracle, just keep in mind they don’t all work as they’re supposed to but browsing amazon reviews you can find an effective one
Take some Tryptophan
Randy King you are going to die young.
taking melatonin? no, my friend, just eat a couple pistachios
^
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQi_PcmPeZ0 (watch at 15:14+ for more info and alternatives, or just watch 19:04+ for the conclusion)
Or just legalize weed and we all sleep like babies and the sleep drug companies be out of business.
Doesn’t cannabis disrupted sleep architecture?
Call Johnny Jerry
He talks so slow he is putting me to sleep!
Amazing speech, thank you! I really need to sleep deeper and more!
could someone please isolate that noise , make a track out of it and upload it to youtube?
someone just did it but it needs improvement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLcDd5QpYo
what if I told you…..TED talks are actually paid advertisements?
I am not an advocate for TED, but believe that paid presentations are not inherently useless or evil. By the same token, I don’t believe that profits are evil.
I didn’t say profits are evil. I’m just saying a lot of the talks are biased and not factual because it’s just businesses trying to make proifit. For example a few talks ago was about how counterfeit handbags fund terrorism. It was vague and lacking in evidence. The guy who did the talk was an employee of tommy hilfiger who clearly paid TED.
Why you need device to make this sound…. Dont you get it..? Its like sea, like small waves falling on the shore…In Greece at least.
Am I the only one here watching this video while trying BUT , being unable to sleep.?
I sleep best in school,for some odd reason.
I dont get enough sleep I wake-up a lot at midnight sleep some people told that coffee does this effect on me because I drink it like 4 or 3 time per day but not anymore because I feel I’m addicted to it too much?!but this is good theory thanks professor!
But I use a sleep sounds app it’s on Google store its really useful and I hear only what I want because least noise wake me up!