(music) BRAINS Trivia Tuesday Let me Bore you to Sleep #1530 Jason Newland 6th January 2026

Hello, and welcome to jasonnewland.com. So the reason I'm laughing is because I keep laughing at the introduction. There's no reason for it. Other than the fact that I made a really weird face.

The first time I did the introduction. And ever, ever since I've been laughing. I don't know why I was like, Hello.

And it just got weird after that. I'm back. It's okay.

We can all relax. Welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. This is trivia Tuesday.

My name is Jason Newland. And please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. I've asked chat GPT.

To bring up 100 factual trivia facts, mind body and psychology. So the idea of this recording this video is really to the very least allow your mind to unwind. Let your mind unwind.

Let me unwind your mind. That's a great title for a podcast, isn't it? Let me unwind your mind. Will I remember it though? Let me unwind your mind.

If anyone's listening, can you please remind me of that? Is there anybody there? So I'd like to say thank you to everybody that listens on my podcasts, whether it's on Spotify, Apple podcasts, overcast, heart radio, Spreaker, wherever. Also, if you're watching on YouTube, if you're watching on Instagram, TikTok, or on x, or if you're listening on my website, jasonnewland.com. I'm everywhere. Thank you.

I appreciate it. And just to say an extra thanks to my new TikTok watches, because my videos are just increased in. I'll show you what that was a weird thing.

Let me just have a look. Then if you can see this, I'm just not like a massive, massive amount, but I'm trying not to hit the microphone. If you can see the amounts, I'm hitting the microphone and I nope, that's not it.

I'm glad nothing weird came up. Some of the latest things, the numbers. Okay, it's not very clear.

But I'm getting hundreds of views of my videos. And a couple of months ago. Well, not even a month ago, really.

The 11th of December, I was getting maybe 3030 views for a video. So I wasn't really paying any attention to TikTok. It's only because a one of my dog walking friends mentioned TikTok and said, Have you been on there? And I said, well, not really.

I've not watched any live stuff. And I've never been live. And she said, you should go on there because it's funny stuff.

And it's entertaining. So I went on did a bit of research, went live a couple of times, and started uploading my videos. And it's just grown.

So thank you to those of you listening or watching this, maybe shared my videos on TikTok. And anyone that shares my videos on YouTube, or Facebook, or, you know, Instagram, or x wherever, I appreciate it. Yes, that's me being grateful.

Thank you very much. It's been cold today. Proper cloak up close proper cold.

I just seen a news article about some of the schools being closed because it's so cold. You feel that have central heating. And also, let me read this out is a text I got an email rather.

I got earlier. Okay, it's not the one. Angley.

Okay, so this is the water company saying, in December, you use 4109 liters of water in your home. That's about 132 liters a day. How am I using that much water? doesn't make sense to me.

I mean, it depends how much water is used when I flush the toilet. Because that might be where it's going. I don't know.

But one liter that's kind of like a big bottle of water in it. 121 of them. I mean, that fill up this whole room.

Okay, might not fill up the whole room, but it definitely take a lot of space up. 121 big bottles of water. And I get through that in a day.

4120 in a month. I don't know. Doesn't make sense to me.

So I can't do anything about it. We're gonna stop flushing the toilet. What can I you know? Not really like I can do.

Yeah, I don't know. You'd think that there'd be a system in every house like when a house is built, a big like water. Not necessarily tower, but a water collector for every build every house built.

A water collector, there's enough water to actually maintain that one property. And then it goes into a filter or whatever, and then it comes out. So can you imagine how much water can be collected throughout the year? Or in a month? Obviously, a lot less in the summer time, but and then it goes into storage.

So it's stored for you know, the summer. Instead of just going into the ground and feeding the grass. Now, I'm not prejudiced against grass.

Just saying, maybe, maybe they could do that. Instead of having to go at me and sending me emails, accusing me of using up all the water. Okay, I might have eaten all the cakes, but I didn't drink all the water.

Okay. Thank you very much. So today, I made a recording.

I have worked on the podcast and making images and doing stuff like that today. And Vinnie at this very moment, and it's 10 to seven. He's at his mum's, his mummy's.

So she had him before me. So he's around there having the time of his life running around playing and he loves over there. It's just literally across the across the pipe across the garden.

It's very close. The thing is, so we went there about an hour ago. And I got a call at about eight o'clock.

And she said, Well, see if he wants to go on up. So I said, Do you want to go? So get the lead, he jumps onto the sofa. Then he jumps and he runs near her, then he comes back to me, then he goes to her, then he comes back to me.

So I just said, Okay, fine. And I just walk out towards the front door and he follows me. She calls him and he runs back to her.

So I just close the door because we're gonna be doing this for the next two hours. I'm pretty sure as soon as I was gone, he forgot all about me. So it's given me an opportunity to actually make a recording.

With no chance of his him barking. He won't be barking. I tell you he won't be.

So trying to think anything else to be very cold. Oh, I got to talk about something. It's a TV show I started watching.

It's a comedy. No, that's not it. Wait a minute.

I looked her up. I looked her up on. Oh, it's not there.

Damn it. I actually did look at what's going away. Stop it.

All tabs must be careful. I don't know. I looked her up.

Right, get rid of that one. That one. That one.

That one. That one. That one.

Okay, Perry, I don't know why Katy Perry's on there. So BBC comedy. I can't think what it's busy.

Things you should have done. I came over it last night. And it's always hit and miss you know, if I've never heard of it.

Never heard of the person making it. And it's like a sitcom, I suppose a comedy. There's two seasons or two series is enough.

I've watched I think needed first one. And it had me laughing really did. And some of the lines are just ridiculously absurd.

Like really just absurd. And it always kind of. I was surprised.

Happily surprised. And I would recommend if you haven't seen it, to give it a go. It's on the BBC iPlayer.

It's it's adult. So if you're if you don't like adult comedy, then it's probably not going to be for you. But it's I just think it's funny.

And I laughed more watching that than I have done anything for a while. I mean, there was a movie that I found funny recently. It's the one with Keanu Reeves.

And he's an angel. I forget the name of it. But that had some really funny bits in that I found really funny as well.

Funny bits I found funny, you know, I mean, I don't really want to say, oh, it was really funny, because that's just my personal opinion. And just because I find something funny, or I don't enjoy something doesn't mean that that's how you're going to experience it. But I really like it a lot.

I just wish there was more episodes. I don't know if they're doing any more, but I think they did it last year. And so yeah, I'll watch.

I'll watch a few more tonight. I'm saving up. So I'm gonna, when I've done this recording, I'm then going to go and get Vin.

Yeah, go and get Vinnie. Then I'll cook my dinner. Then I will sit down and watch EastEnders on BBC iPlayer while I'm eating my dinner.

And then I shall relax for the night. And watch, I don't know, two or three episodes of the of that show. Things you should do or should have done.

It's just funny. To me, I just like it's weird. It's weird.

It's surreal. And it's Yeah, it's kind of up my street. A little bit like Oh, what was that? What was that TV show? Not bubblegum.

No. It's the woman she's constantly talking to the camera. Tall woman tall, not not not that one.

The other one. Well, that was good as well. It's just it's funny.

I just think it's really funny. So yeah, that's what I'm kind of looking forward to watching. It's nice to have something like that.

On TV. I'm just looking at my shadow on the wall. It's like I've got more than one chin.

I've only got one. Maybe I've got more than one. So yeah.

Other than that, I really done a huge amount today. I did have a bit of a nap this afternoon. Right, okay.

So here we go. Let's get on with thing. Chrissy sent me a message on to talk.

Love the new setup. Thank you. What I'm going to do is, you know, behind me, there's all this.

It looks like a moldy wall. It's not a moldy wall. And the reason why I mean, I can't prove it's not a moldy wall, but it's not it's just like fabric.

Because I had this or hate the feeling that stickiness. It was the backing of the soundproofing. Now, on Friday, I'm going to get some help to put some curtains around there.

I've got these black curtains. But I don't know, will that make it a bit too dark? I don't know. We'll see.

If it doesn't work, I'll get some light light colored, but I want to cover up this wall. But the setup really with the got the camera, I've got the microphone for the camera. And Sebastian says stop using your razor and pretending it's a microphone.

It is a microphone. And although the razor was read as well. This is the microphone for the podcast.

So it's done separate. And the recording studios behind me. So thank you, Chrissy.

I'm just trying to I wanted to do something a little bit different this year. I wanted to sort of move onwards. And I've had it.

I'll be honest with you. I've I've struggled with making videos simply because of how I look. Not just that, but also that is quite a bit of work and time goes into it and waiting around for things to upload and to process and editing and stuff like that.

But ultimately, I'm kind of getting used to how I look again. Because I haven't looked in a camera and see my face for regularly every day for years. Now I'm kind of becoming immune to it.

It's almost like I'm not noticing the weirdness of how I look so much. And I haven't had any horrible comments or anything like that, which is nice. As far as like on the videos go, I mean, perhaps I shouldn't say that too soon.

And that was also worrying because back in my heyday, where my YouTube channel was flying, because it was doing quite well for my old YouTube channel. I was Yeah, it was like, I had a lot of people seem to like what I did. There were people that were being rude as well.

And I think we've just doing a podcast, people don't have an opportunity to really express their the angry side of themselves so much with a podcast because an audio podcast because it's audio and you know, it's nowhere to really, you can leave a comment, but it's not really the same as being on YouTube or watching on Facebook or TikTok or Instagram or you know, those kind of places or x x.

So I kind of getting used to the routine of it because I find that in some ways, I'm getting back into my groove in a weird way, kind of getting back into the the I don't know, the road I was kind of aiming to go down. And to be able to do both to be able to do the videos and the audio at the same time. And to have a fairly good quality of both.

I know the videos with the lighting is perhaps not perfect quality, but really, when you think about it, the more unclear the picture is, the better it is for everyone involved. Because I did have a camera in the past that was really, really, really clear. And it brought out every single line and blemish and all didn't like that.

It's like no, I can't, I can't, can't do that. Not unless it's some kind of post editing thing going on. So yeah, right on with the recording, man.

Yeah, I do like my introductions. So many people. So I really appreciate all the people that are, you know, supporting me.

So I'll put this on there. And I'll do this now. Mind, body and psychology 100 factual trivia facts.

Didn't need to have a factual and facts in the same sentence. 100 trivia facts, or 100 factual trivia facts. Anyway, the human brain weighs.

Oh, by the way, I've said this before, and I say it again, don't use any information you get from me as fact, even though it's saying it's is chat GPT. It's an AI app. It doesn't pretend, you know, it might not be right, it might be false, it might be slightly out, it might be just lying to me.

I don't know. So don't get into an argument based on what you've heard me say. Because it ain't worth it.

I go even further. Don't get into an argument. Full stop ever.

Learn to live without drama. The human brain weighs around 1.3 to 1.4 kilograms. So one kilograms, you can get a kilogram of sugar, can't you? You get 50 kilos, which is small one, one kilo, which is kind of the normal kind of size.

So one point, okay, so that's and 1.4 is one and two thirds. No. One and a quarter.

Anyway, it's like a bag of sugar plus probably two thirds of a small bag, or half of a small bag, roughly. So I mean, I've never held a brain. I've never not got around to it.

It's not on my to do list. I just you know, it's you can't mean so let's make a bucket list. Like, yeah, but some things just can't do.

You can't just walk into a hospital and say, you tell me where the mortuary is. You know, just knock on the door. It's a bit of an awkward question.

I watched a movie with Jack Nicholson, I think it was and what's his name from the prison movie? You know, the one with the voice and I've written a bucket list. And was it Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, one of them. And on my list is holding a human's brain.

So I was wondering, I mean, you're not going to get that far in a conversation. I mean, security is going to be called is I remember when I was in hospital visiting my friend in the summer, uncle sausages. And he kept getting moved, like from different wards, you know, he's into like, four different wards, including the emergency ward, where he was originally 1211212345, he was moved five times.

But the last time he was moved into a room separate, but was still on the kind of the same ward. And the sixth time was when he was in the care home place. So, but so he sent me a text saying, or someone sent me a text saying he's been moved to a different mode.

I'm looking for this ward. I'm walking towards a set to a place and I said, this lady said, Are you okay? I said, not really. But why are you asking? I didn't say that.

Just like, she said, were you looking for? I said, stone market ward, I don't know what it's called. It was whatever it was. And she said, we don't want to go down that's down there.

That's where all the dead people are. And she laughed. I looked down there and there was all these people there was like, a grieving family.

I felt so awkward. Because it was so inappropriate. And you know, if I'd have known that where I was going that would have happened.

I would have worn some trousers. So, yes, it's weird, you know? What was my point? Oh, yeah, human brains. The brain uses only 20% of the body's energy.

Oh, by the way, here's something I know. I studied the brain neurology and not not actually, like studied it as it going to university. Although I did study a bit about the brain and psychology in my counselling degree.

You guys all you know, people say you only use 2% of your brain, you know, we only use 2% of a brain. Imagine what we could do if we use the other 73%. And like, okay, you've got to move things with your mind.

Move things, I said move things with your mind. Well, we do use the whole of our brain, maybe not at the same time. But the whole brain is being activated.

It's, you know, we're not using all the energy. The brain uses 20% of our body's energy, which is quite a big thing. So when you eat in your diet, or whatever, I'm not the one to really judge anyone's diet.

So when you're eating that chocolate bar, and the energy that comes from the chocolate bar, a lot of it is needed for your brain. If you think about it, the brain's working all the time. We're very lucky to have brains all the time.

You can rest your hands, you can rest your limbs, maybe. I mean, but all that stuff, your heart, your bladder, your liver, all that stuff's working. And it's only working because of your brain.

It's fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. The brain contains around 86 billion neurons.

And they say around because they don't know, they can't count them. How can they count them? I mean, I'm guessing it's impossible to count 86 billion of anything. Not without feeling really tired, especially if they're sheep.

Neurons communicate using electrical and chemical signals. So they do connect between each other like it's kind of like telling someone a secret like pass it on. Jason's got fleas, pass it on.

Yeah, that kind of stuff. Jason lives in a tent, pass it on. And just the kind of things I used to hear things like that at school.

But you know, just like it's kind of bit like that is the neurons kind of pass on the signal. Here's something you might not know about this. That was probably the thing that amazed me most about the brain.

I've talked about it quite a lot in my chronic pain relief sessions, especially the headache relief sessions. And it blew my mind, baby blew my mind. But it's also true.

The brain itself does not feel pain. Doesn't feel anything. The actual pain, the brain itself doesn't have sensory feeling sensories.

Now, you can stimulate other parts of your body. Using the brain, you can stimulate parts that give you smell. You can you know, things like that, because I've done experiments when people are awake, touching parts of the brain, and it can bring back memories and it can all kinds of stuff.

But it does not feel pain. So once you're through the scalp, the pain, the brain don't feel nothing, no pain at all. Which makes me wonder about headaches, because a lot of people feel headaches in the actual head, not in the scalp, not in the eyes, but inside the brain.

That's where they think they feel it, but they can't feel it there because there's no pain there. Because it's physically impossible. And when you realize that the brain controls the pain, yet there's no pain in the brain, you start to realize that it just changes how you see things, how you experience things.

The brain is about 75% water. Isn't like the whole body, pretty much water. I mean, I don't know if it's water, the brain continues developing into a person's mid 20s.

See, that's another thing. That's really not true either. Sorry, I've got to argue with that one.

The brain science has proved that our brains keep developing throughout life. Every time you learn a new skill, every time you learn a new name, every time you go somewhere new, create new memories, your brain is developing. Whether you're 18 or 80, your brain is continuing to develop.

Of course, there's deterioration in age, in older age, there can be there can be deterioration of any age, but you can still learn new things. Generally. So our brains, it's just what it means is just our brains.

The biggest development in our brains is probably the first six months to a year, maybe the first two, three years. You know, that whole period of like learning everything, learning to speak, learning to understand facial expressions, which I still struggle with, learning to understand emotions, learning to recognize people, learning, learning words, learning behavior, all that stuff. That's the biggest development in the brain.

But then it continues as we get older. And there was a time when people thought or psychiatrists or, you know, psychologists thought that the brain stopped developing, you know, when people got to puberty, once you become like an adult, that was it. But actually mid 20s.

It's still growing, it's still developing a fast pace. Because there's so much to do is life is so different when you leave school. If you go to college, and maybe you go to the other side of the country, and you're living at home, you're living away from home for the first time, maybe, or you know, like a relationship with someone for the first time living with them, maybe.

I'm not sure if that's would help develop my brain. But it's definitely interesting. The prefrontal cortex is involved in decision making and impulse control.

So someone has an injury in the prefrontal cortex. I'm reading that I'm still saying it wrong. If someone has an injury in the prefrontal cortex, it can affect decision making and impulse control.

I basically just kind of said the same thing. And see, yeah, I mean, also developmental is being said, and I've read it, that sometimes, depending on how we grew up, how we were raised to brain development, sometimes parts of the brain don't develop as well as they would have done if someone had grown up in a different situation. So someone that has problems with impulse control, and decision making, both things I've had problems with.

The cerebellum plays a major role in coordination and balance. The brain still okay, the brainstem controls breathing and heart rate. So the most important part of the brain really, to be fair.

I mean, once the brainstems like not working, that's kind of it. But phenomenal. It's just amazing.

The brain is we have to take care of our brains. Attention is limited. The brain cannot.

Let's go back quickly to the prefrontal cortex is involved in decision making and impulse control. Now I have, as well as bipolar, I've also been diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder. Yay, me.

And one of those couple of those issues is the decision making and impulse control. Yeah, so I really struggle. I have always struggled with decision making.

As something I never thought of it as a problem, just, you know, I used to go into, even when I was an adult, you know, just when I was a kid, as an adult, I'd go into blockbusters, or video shop, depending on what it's called. And I would spend hours and I mean hours, looking around all the different videos, not knowing which one to decide. And I still do that sometimes with Netflix.

I spent a half an hour looking through all the things in Netflix and still haven't found anything to watch. It's very frustrating. Just can't choose or you struggle to choose.

And if I go out with them on with a meal, go out to a meal with somebody. And unless it's something on the menu that I really want, you know, for example, a cheese omelet, chips and beans, two slices of bread. Yeah, I probably go for that because that's something I really like.

And I really eat that. If I went to a restaurant, and the person I'm with chooses something else, and then I want what they've chosen. And unless it's a salad, of course, then you know, of course, I don't want it.

But all healthy. But so what I do now, generally, if I do, I don't go out hardly ever. But if I was to sort of go out, sort of in recent past, I would.

I just have what they're having. Just have what they're having. It's easier, providing it's you know, nothing, nothing to to healthy or anything.

And it's easy, because then I'm not, I don't have to think for myself, which is weird, because I like thinking for myself, but I just in those situations, it just takes too long, it causes me, you know, me. I mean, there was when I was tenting in Wales, Wales. And when I was a kid, there was this one moment where we were all going to go out to the beach.

And they were waiting on me to choose whether or not to wear a jumper. And I couldn't choose. I couldn't choose.

And in the end, I think I had to stay in the tent on my own, because I just, I'd wound everyone up. They didn't want me to go with them. And I was probably 1212 or something.

And I just couldn't literally could not choose. It was an impossible decision to make. It's almost like you just like, you have to choose or this answer to win a million pound or dollars and like, I can't choose even though there was no, there was no loss to it.

I could have just took it off. I could have took it with me. And just, you know, tied it around my waist if it was too hot, or kept it on.

If it wasn't. I guess Yeah. But yeah, the brainstem controls breathing and heart rate.

That's why, you know, things like breathing. And when someone's going through anxiety, panic attack, things like that, which I had a heck of a lot of issues with in the past. And I realized that sometimes you have to put some faith in your own brain.

You have to allow your brain get out of the way of your brain. Because breathing is something controlled by your brain, by your brainstem. And to move out the way in the same way, we don't have to try and control the blood pumping around our body.

It happens automatically. And the more we step back and relax, the more all that stuff works more fluidly, more easily. So that's part of the reason why I hardly ever do breathing exercises in my recordings.

Because with things like anxiety, when I've been in a in that moment, the last thing I want to do is concentrate on my breathing. Because that's the thing that I'm trying not to think about. That's just like personal, my personal experience of it.

So I noticed that when you listen to me, whether it's these Let Me Boys Asleeps, whether it's a short relaxation or chronic pain relief session, a long sleep hypnosis session, or whatever it is, your mind slows down. And you probably find your breathing slows down and becomes deeper. But not because you're trying to do that.

It just happens naturally. And I quite like things that happen naturally. Not all things.

But you know, that one I do quite like. There was a time when I was a teenager, and every time I got on a bus, a bus was asked to go up to the front of the classroom to write on the blackboard. Certain things might happen naturally, which didn't want to happen.

But mind and cognition, the attention is limited. The brain cannot fully focus on multiple tasks at once, not fully focus, but then the mind doesn't fully focus on anything ever fully focuses on anything really, in a sense of there's always going to be sounds. There's always going to be a temperature on your skin, there's always going to be the feeling of your the chair underneath your bum, or the city underneath you or the bed underneath you protect, you know, holding you.

There's going to be the feeling of the breath going in and out. Sounds in the background, there's always going to be other things going on. I think it's just for me personally, I just that's what I think.

It's just the level of focus, it can change. It can become more like you can become more focused on my voice than you were before. It doesn't mean that you're gonna necessarily lose focus of anything else, you might do.

You might drift, I don't know. But some people have a better way of managing multiple things at the same time. And some people don't find it as easy.

We're all different. I'm arguing with the with the app. But attention, you know, we've all got everyone's got limitations when it comes to things that we can and cannot do.

You know, we've all got things that we're really good at some things that maybe we're not as good at, that we can improve on some things that we're just brilliant at, that we never even have to try. I'm trying to think of something with me, it's probably being boring. It's a natural talent, just being boring.

It's not quite what I wanted for myself, to be honest. When I left school, people were saying what you want to do on be a bricklayer. What about you? Well, actually, I want to study psychology.

What about you? I want to be an astronaut. What about you? I want to be in a band. I want to travel the world in a rock band.

What about you, Jason? I want to be boring. I want to be really boring. If I want to be the most boring person in the world.

Yeah, it wasn't wasn't my my dream. multitasking usually reduces performance accuracy, or controversial. Obviously, I mean, it makes sense, but it can be controversial depending on who you're talking to.

So it's not me saying that the brain filters out most sensory input automatically. Yeah. I think it's pretty much accepted by psychologists and neuroscientists, that the brain could not handle everything coming in.

Our mind could not handle all of that input. So it has to block stuff out. So an example of that was if you see something happen in the street, there can be six people seeing something happen.

And you might get six different versions of what happened. They could cross over, they're not going to like say, say a car hit another car and knocked it into a brick wall. No one was hurt.

But you know, one person might say, well, it's the car in front he broke, braked and the other car went into the back of him. And so I might say, yeah, someone, a cat ran out and distracted the car. And it could be different things that they noticed.

So I might be, I'd be saying they were fine. And suddenly this bloke just started build a wall really quickly, like, you know, like the flash or something. But that would probably be a weird, weird statement, wouldn't it? I mean, it's that whole thing, isn't it? If you want to find the truth, you need both sides of the story.

There's two sides of the story, and then there's the truth. And you're never going to get to the truth. Because it's going to be like you get two different people's versions of what happened, like in an argument or in a relationship.

And it doesn't go down too well sometimes to mention that to people, especially if they're a friend and say, well, I've only got your side of the story. But you're supposed to be my friend. Yeah.

But you're a human being. And we all are biased towards our own perspective. We, we can't see things from the other person's side necessarily.

But you're my friend. So yeah, I try not to say that to people. Humans blink around 15 to 20 times per minute.

15 to 20 times really? I don't think I blink. Do I blink 15 to 20 times? Maybe? Daydreaming involves the default mode network in the brain. Okay, it's standard just drifting off.

It's sometimes we need a bit of stimulation. Sometimes we need to daydream. Memory is reconstructed, not a perfect recording.

Yes. That's why really, people remembering something. I've got memories.

And I realized after looking into it, that it's a mixture of different memories all in one. And that's annoying. It annoys me.

So it doesn't mean that your memory, you know, you say, well, I remember what happened 10 minutes ago. Yeah. That's probably not going to be reconnected.

It's going to be reconstructed, but it's going to be pretty accurate. Or even if it happened yesterday, or it may be even last week. But if you're thinking back to something that happened 10 years ago, and it's still not going to be a perfect recording.

Generally, a short term memory typically holds four to seven items. I've heard that. I don't know how true is long term memory has no known storage limit.

And sleep is important for memory consolidation. Yeah, sleep is important. Generally, forgetting is a normal brain function.

Yeah, I'll go with that. I'm glad doing these recordings that Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Because I talk a lot about the past, I talk about my life and things have happened.

I think it's helping me with my memory. That there is quite a lot that I've forgotten. The problem with forgetting things is it's hard get them back because you've forgotten them.

And you've forgotten that you've forgotten them. You know, I mean, so perception, and the brain interprets sensory information rather than directly recording reality. So, again, by filtering what's going on, because there's too much sensory data for the brain to handle, for the mind to handle.

So and then it's it kind of reinterprets it doesn't feel like that, though, does it in real time? But in a way, we can only see the world for our own eyes. I'm pretty sure anybody else, if they sat down in this chair, and we're looking at this camera and talking, they would see everything differently, to me. Just because, you know, it's, it's a different perspective.

They've got their whole life, a different life to me, everything. So optical illusions occur because the brain makes predictive guesses. Yep.

There's a really good thing I saw on YouTube, it was this person saying two different words. Okay. But depending on what word depend, it was no saying.

Yeah, two different words. Or one, I forget. I wasn't a very good description was it? Two different? Basically, it's like, flip and pop, flip.

But, but, uh, uh, fuh, fuh, puh, puh, fuh, fuh, puh, puh. And whichever, whichever ever word they give it shows you and you can hear the the the fa fa pa pa but it's the same audio for both so it's fa fa pa pa fa fa and then they show the person going pa pa then they show fa fa it's the same sound but because you see the one go like that you automatically add the fa or the pa it's actually pa pa the whole way it's just that's the only sound it is but when you see the person go like that

you hear fa instead of pa it's weird very very uh i described that in the worst possible way even i didn't understand it and i knew what it was the brain prioritized visual information over other senses i don't know if i'd agree with that but maybe you know i'm not an expert but i'm an auditory person i'm affected by what i hear and i'm affected by what i see as well and but really my own my visual so if i'm watching a comedy it's what i hear rather than what i

see it's the it's the the verbal stuff that makes me laugh more than the visual depending on what kind of stuff it is but i should just read it out instead of commenting shouldn't i really okay i'll just go with that but i i'm i would say maybe because visual is much more everything isn't it where we go around and talking to people and you see stuff but i i get more from people's voices than i do from their visual because i can't tell what someone's thinking or what they're feeling

or the emotions or anything i can't mind read apparently everyone seems to be able to mind read i can't and also i noticed the amount of people that say one thing but their whole body and their voice tone and everything is saying something completely different and i find that confusing i've noticed that on tiktok actually i watched a few people live and there's there's one person on there well there's a couple of people and they were having a go at somebody but they were smiling all the way through it i

mean that's passive aggression like on a high level i guess but real like smiling but just saying this something i don't know it's almost like not being in tune with themselves not really knowing maybe not knowing how they're feeling but potentially i don't know i find it um interesting humans can distinguish millions of colors if it isn't millions of colors isn't there only like a few base colors that makes all the other colors anyway anyway hearing sensitivity decreases with age yeah i'd go along with that actually smell is strongly linked

to memory yeah sometimes i get smells i don't get smells but i smell something i think oh that reminds me of something i wasn't a very that wasn't a very good example really was it you know occasionally one of the smells that reminded me of my childhood was uh the trains on like euston or king's cross station like the old trains and i had a certain smell that was like in the 70s and wow i'm old and i used to smell them like in the 90s probably not around anymore those

trains but like and sometimes i'd go and stand on the platform and just not really live my very early childhood days but kind of get into that feeling of standing on that platform with my two brothers and my mom with suitcases waiting for a train late at night seeing the big clock up you know i think it was euston or king's cross one of those big big train stations no one else around so yeah just and maybe the sounds the sounds of the whistles because they used to have whistles back

then um even probably 20 years ago maybe they still do but they do a whistle so all the doors are closed and used to be able to open the door yourself even when the train was moving back then so you know you could wait and almost get off the train as it was pulling up not the brightest thing to do but time perception changes depending on attention and emotion yeah i mean i think we all know that don't we if you're with somebody and let's say you were waiting to go

home from work or you're somewhere that you're really not enjoying being and you're waiting and you've got an hour left and you really want that hour to go and all you keep doing is looking at the clock that hour is going to drag your time perception is going to be that that hour lasts for ever and ever and ever but if you spend an evening with someone and just really enjoying yourself and having the time of your life maybe you just chatting watching tv together whatever was it Netflix and chill

i don't know just the time will go so quickly that's why you know when people are happy that the time goes quickly and if you want time to slow down get married uh there's a joke there pain is processed in multiple brain regions it's processed in the brain yet there's no pain in the brain so that's another thing i think you know until i don't know how many years ago people thought that you got a pain in your leg and that's where it was that's where the pain was and that's

where the pain came from but it doesn't it comes from the brain so when you realize that actually that's a danger signal and when you realize that you're not in danger and you don't need to have that physical discomfort a good example of that is a little kid and probably all seeing this whether it's your own kid or your brother and sister or just seeing it at some point a little kid will fall over like a toddler three-year-old four-year-old five-year-old whatever they'll fall over and they look up to the parent

or to the adult to find out whether or not to cry or not so if you go up to them go oh little jay-jay what's happened like make a big big fuss chances are they're going to burst out crying if you laugh and do it you know make it turn it into a joke and like oh what did you do like chances there's a good chance that it's going to get up and just carry on playing or laugh of course if their legs if their legs start hanging off don't laugh

you know get you know i'm not only do that in effect you know if there's no no physical harm obviously why didn't you bring him to the hospital when he was laughing um i'm very interested in pain just um i've been studying chronic pain for decades actually for weirdly enough i just the first time i started um reading up and studying hypnosis the the thing that really two things that grabbed me most of all about hypnosis first one was it can be used to relax someone and relaxation something that so

many of us need in the world and hard i'd needed it in the past and i thought also so i can relieve someone's physical discomfort and it wasn't just that it's the idea that you can change a physical feeling you can decrease it or increase it so if it's pleasure you can increase it if it's discomfort you can decrease it and that i found that interesting and then i discovered that actually you can move physical feelings around the body so something might be in your left leg your left knee and

you can start to kind of move it and it can move over to your right knee maybe it can like the feeling can split in half so instead of being in a lot of discomfort you can just be in mild not really a big deal because it's split between the two it's almost like if you put a big bunch of salt into a cup of water you're not going to be able to drink it but if you pour that big cup of um water um salt into a swimming pool full

of clean water you're not you're not going to taste the what the salt are you i mean you if you like if you're there underneath the water with your mouth open where the salt's being poured yeah you're going to taste it but that'd be weird that ruins the story but generally all that water will dilute the salt to the point of not being able to taste it and when you start spreading out a feeling if you're not purposely increasing it can just dear jason your Let Me Bore You To Sleep

seems to have turned into a lecture this isn't a ted talk you know sorry what can i do it's a subject i know about i know a little bit about pain perception can vary between individuals see now we're going on stuff that i don't know about much like the nervous system um the autonomic nervous system controls involuntary functions i mean that's just i just find that amazing just that the there's all this stuff going on and we ain't got to do nothing we haven't got to do a single thing it's

like a self-driving car all we've got to do is just put in the fuel and just take care of it make sure that it's clean make sure that it gets regular uh runs the exercise whatever and gets regular check-ups heart rate can do okay due to emotional states that's obvious really isn't it stress triggers a release of cortisol long-term stress can affect physical health so yeah just like long-term physical whatever can affect stress it's i guess it's kind of like a balanced thing one like how you physically feel when you're

getting relaxed when you start relaxing your body your mind starts relaxing or if you start to relax or notice that your mind is relaxing you also automatically start to relax your body or your body automatically starts to relax because it's not necessarily something that you're doing it's just you know happening automatically relaxation can reduce physiological arousal yep here's something that i discovered back in 2006 um this is from practical working so i did this i had this free chronic pain relief service in my local town i was going around people's

houses and eventually i rented a room on a saturday morning like in a therapy place and i was seeing people for free for chronic pain basically come to me and i'd do some hypnosis find out what's going on and try and reduce those feelings of discomfort and after doing it for a while i realized the one standard thing that worked with everybody because i got 100 success rate according to the feedback of course they might have lied but you know everyone said that helped and the one common denominator was this

that relaxation equals pain relief or equals pain reduction relaxation so the more relaxed someone became the less problematic that part of the body felt so the thing is with people with like chronic pain and stuff the stress levels are much higher than the average person so when you manage to reduce those stress levels because the stress levels cause because the person's in pain which is you can't blame anyone for that blimey but then that stress increases the pain so by reducing the stress the pain also reduces and then because the

pain is reduced the stress reduces even more you know so it's quite cool the gut has its own nervous system enteric nervous system i don't know much about that stuff so i'm just going to finish on a couple of bits here psychology basics psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior behavior can be influenced by environment and learning and can be is i think probably better we're we're influenced by what we what we're around and there was a famous saying show me your six closest friends and i'll show you

your future so it wasn't me that said well it was me that said it because you heard me but it was quite a famous uh quote behavior can okay classical conditioning was studied by ivan pavlov so he used to do the bells with dogs and learn how to control the behavior of animals by setting up triggers um operant conditioning was studied by bf skinner emotions of all physiological cognitive components blah blah blah blah emotional responses can occur before conscious awareness it kind of goes against cognitive behavioral therapy a bit that

i think um there is a gap i mean this is what i've learned with meditation with cognitive behavioral therapy with counseling with psychotherapy that there is a gap between something happening and something feeling it so an emotional like we can to get to the point where we do have conscious awareness before an emotional response we can get to that but sometimes it takes a while it takes a bit of work and a bit of observe observing ourselves and i did a lot of that in 2004 trying to notice how i

was feeling more of the time and if there was a certain behavior that i didn't want to repeat i would work on that and try and get a sense of how am i feeling before that behavior how am i feeling before instead of how am i feeling before i act out on that behavior how am i feeling before i stop myself from acting out on that behavior then how am i feeling before i'm starting to want to do that behavior and eventually it's just it comes down to how how am

i feeling i like the idea that every second of every day we choose what we do next we're not puppets if i was i'd like to become it which kind of took away the seriousness of that moment habits i learned behavior is triggered by cues human behavior is influenced by social context yeah i mean we all i don't know about you but not so much now but there was a time when i would behave differently in different circumstances different contexts be different at work compared to at home be different when

i was with one set of friends compared to us when i was with someone else now i'm just me wherever i go that's me i'm not bragging i'm just saying that's i can't be bothered to fit in with different versions because what i noticed is in the past whenever i let my different friends meet each other they never got on ever and i noticed that i was i had different friends from different situations and i had to keep them apart because they never got on then i started to think am

i really being myself with any of those people or am i just adapting myself to fit in with them and it was impossible to do when i was with when two of them were together and i was with them because then i could you can't adapt to two people at the same time why couldn't so i realized i think that basically can't do that anymore fitting into how someone else expects me to be rather than just being who i am it doesn't mean i'm how i want to be i don't

want to have bipolar or an emotional disorder personality disorder i don't want that i don't i want to be six foot six but you know we can't have everything it says here personality traits show relative stability over time i think from that it comes to like the nice parts of us we've all got nice parts even if sometimes it doesn't feel like that there's been times when i've wondered if i'm even human but we've all got nice parts and i think when you break it down most of us are just

nice just nice people genuine kind caring people that's what i think and i'm not coming from a life of uh everything being good uh that what do they call it what's that word when you're seeing through rose-colored glasses and everything's wonderful but no i'm not coming from that i'm not going to start singing a spoonful of sugar i'm not i'd like to but i'm not um but what's the point in believing otherwise you've got to look after yourself you've got to be careful but ultimately what's the point i think most

people are decent people who would like to be treated with respect be treated equally and have other people be kind to them i might be old-fashioned i might be new-fashioned and i might just be old and on that note i didn't get through all of them let's see if i have anything i've just met there's loads but i have to go and collect vinvin so i'll say thank you for listening and watching remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself you deserve to feel safe and also remember that you are already enough regardless of what anyone else tells you and you're going to be okay and believe that lots of love bye