The brain benefits of deep sleep — and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg

The brain benefits of deep sleep — and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg

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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50 Comments

  1. 5:07 – 5:15

  2. @Continentalmunkey88 November 11, 2024 at 9:33 am

    6:08 however haptic feedback state

  3. how do i get this noise???

  4. @mojtabasalehi1418 November 11, 2024 at 9:40 am

    so what exactly did we learn from this?

  5. Me watching this at 3am

  6. Everyone here because they can’t sleep.

  7. Watching this at 3 am (haven’t sleep) thank you for new knowledge

  8. He is putting me to sleep

  9. Very incomplete video ted ever made.

  10. Anyone have the mp3 file for the sound?

  11. Interesting stuff.

  12. Sounds like the ocean. Do ocean sound recordings have a similar effect?

  13. That sound sounds exactly like nature, leaves from trees moving side to side or waves from a water or a ocean, we are suppose to sleep outside

  14. @patriciasalem3606 November 11, 2024 at 9:55 am

    "For some reason…" Capitalism and greed. That’s the reason people are expected to give up sleep to work more. We need to get by on less so corporations and a handful of billionaires can make more money.

  15. I was sleeping when I watched this

  16. Sleep is a superpower that many of us neglect nowadays

  17. I was waiting for the device

  18. @jenniferkuzman2451 November 11, 2024 at 9:56 am

    Do you have an app that I can download to listen to the sound at night?

  19. I hate that sound makes me nauseous and anxious. I do not like sounds of water unless it’s rain.

  20. Its literally 3:19 so it will at least be 4 before i get some of that damn light sleep

  21. I’m pretty sure i didn’t have delta waves in biological youth either.

  22. I am a deep sleeper and when someone wakes me up I wake up I wake up and and go back to sleep but don’t remember anything about waking up

  23. @tryptamine-loopring-eth November 11, 2024 at 10:04 am

    Go organic!!!

    I think I just discovered for myself that my microfiber sheets were causing sleep disturbances. I mean no matter what I did, nothing worked. I watched hundreds of videos, read plenty of articles and NIH studies. But this one change, changing from microfiber sheets to 100% cotton made a dramatic difference in sleep quality. My guess is the toxic chemicals they use to make that cheap plastic was harming me, and disrupting REM sleep. I only found out because sleeping on my awkward couch was oddly better than sleeping on my serta king mattress with memory foam padding. Didn’t make sense at first. I skimped on cheap sheets. Never again. I don’t care what the cost is for organic, I’ll never sleep on poison another day in my life. Hope someone reads this and finds the information as useful as I did.

  24. Where can I download the sound. He said burst frequency. None of the tracks on YouTube have this.

  25. How to get deep sleep sounds

  26. Whats the name of the sound? Where do you find it on YouTube?

  27. @leonardomahony3354 November 11, 2024 at 10:11 am

    Look out for my company. Zzz’sINSPIRE IN THE MIDDLE OF 2024.IVE GOT THE MISSING PIECE OF THE JIGSAW.PROMISE!!FACT!!

  28. Great talk and tips. What are the sleep tracker devices you were using in the talk? Any CPG devices (or smart phone) that is the best at tracking sleep that you recommend? I currently use the Oura but I don’t love it. I don’t find it is accurate, nor do I love the monthly subscription fees. If I knew how to use the data it and it populate into my productivity apps, then that might be helpful but for now, I’d love to find one that is more accurate. Thank you!

  29. Well this wasn’t helpful. I looking for advice, and resources.

  30. The first tip is 2x speed

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  32. Problem I see is that if technology is making us have bad sleep, which it is, then we shouldn’t be rushing further down the rabbit hole and strapping devices to our heads or brains to help combat the sleep problem. We should be going straight for preventative measures and if that means stopping technology, taking down all the 5g towers in our towns, stepping backwards so that we can invent something better or connect one another more meaningfully in our own communities to reduce crime and mental health problems then that is what we should do.

  33. Telugu people watching at 3 A.M. be like"Ironevanchalaentii"

  34. @monicanicoleleeify November 11, 2024 at 10:16 am

    I got sleepy listening to his monotone voice

  35. #### SummaryThis talk discusses the importance of deep sleep for our overall health and well-being. The speaker explains how the lack of deep sleep affects our mental states and highlights the connection between poor sleep and diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease. The speaker also introduces a technology that can stimulate deep sleep and improve next-day memory performance.#### Highlights- 💤 Poor sleep is linked to diseases like Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and diabetes.- 😴 Lack of deep sleep inhibits our ability to learn and recover.- 🧠 Deep sleep is important for converting daily interactions into long-term memory.- 🎧 Playing specific sounds during deep sleep can make sleep deeper and more efficient.- 🌙 The technology for deep-sleep stimulation is being developed to improve sleep health.- 🔬 The research has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health.- 💡 One day, a small device may help us get more out of our sleep.

  36. where can i download this sound? please

  37. I call BS. There’s no "magic sound you can play to have deeper deep sleep."

  38. Did anyone else think the sound sounded like a cat purring and/or making biscuits?

  39. 5:45 … I don’t see a pattern like he mentioned in the graphic and even copy-n-pasted it to a tool to highlight those areas. Silly.

  40. I only get 3 to 4 hours of sleep at 17 am I screwed?

  41. Dude, you told me nothing! What a misleading title. Waste of time

  42. @Continentalmunkey88 November 11, 2024 at 10:24 am

    <freon-state> frozen foods aisle, salt content, sugar content; isn’t <agriTech-state> domain

  43. First, you have to be suspicious of science used to sell you a device.
    Second, this is an example of a pill that makes you feel better but doesn’t cure. The cure is to work to achieve a good quality of life not just for material wealth.

  44. Now where can I get that sound?

  45. Every research associated with Harvard is a sham. Let’s see who sponsored this study. SMH!

  46. @thecozyconstellation November 11, 2024 at 10:25 am

    are you kidding me. he talked for 10 seconds about a littlke device you can’t buy and people cheered??w

  47. I don’t like this pigeonholing. age, diet, quality of sleep are important. i sleep 6-7 hours every day and have zero carbs in my diet. he doesn’t talk about eating late at all, at least 3 hours before sleep, that’s the minimum, he doesn’t mention going to bed early, that promotes deep sleep

  48. 5:46 funny I’m someone with narcolepsy and that breathing type of sound has a tendency to put me to sleep when I hear the same deep sounding pattern 5:46

  49. @leonardomahony3354 November 11, 2024 at 10:29 am

    All these specialists and not one of them no how to sleep properly!!

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