How Your Subconscious Mind Really Works | Boring Psychology for Sleep

In a brain scanner, a volunteer makes a free choice, but the scan could predict it seconds before they felt they'd decided. Tonight the Keeper takes the hidden stair below the Mind Palace, seventeen quiet rooms on how your subconscious mind really works: the machinery beneath awareness, the early signal before a choice, hands that sense danger first, hidden rules we learn without knowing, music and scents that quietly steer us, experts' gut feelings, the answer that comes after rest, and the learning that goes on while we sleep. Nothing to solve and nothing to remember. Let the hidden mind carry you, and drift off whenever you're ready. The lantern is lit, and the stairs lead down. Tonight, we go below the palace, to the quiet rooms where the mind does its work in the dark. CHAPTERS 0:00:00 Tonight in the Mind Palace 0:02:35 Down the Hidden Stair 0:04:43 Room 1: The Room Beneath the Floor 0:12:24 Room 2: The Early Signal 0:20:17 Room 3: The Predicted Choice 0:27:05 Room 4: The Knowing Hands 0:34:24 Room 5: The Hidden Grammar 0:42:38 Room 6: The Moving Lights 0:47:57 Room 7: The Mirror Star 0:55:38 Room 8: The Hidden Pin 1:03:28 Room 9: Seeing Without Seeing 1:11:25 Room 10: The Wine Shop Music 1:19:38 Room 11: The Lemon Scent 1:25:16 Room 12: The Quiet Copy 1:33:22 Room 13: The Firefighter's Feeling 1:40:48 Room 14: The Long Drive 1:46:25 Room 15: The Answer After Rest 1:53:41 Room 16: The Sleeping Insight 2:00:49 The Last Room: The Deep Spring RESEARCH MENTIONED Soon, Brass, Heinze & Haynes (2008), unconscious determinants of free decisions — https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2112 Kihlstrom (1987), the cognitive unconscious — https://doi.org/10.1126/science.3629249 Stroop (1935), the colour-word effect — https://doi.org/10.1037/h0054651 Libet et al. (1983), the early signal before a movement — https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/106.3.623 Schurger, Sitt & Dehaene (2012), a new look at the early signal — https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210467109 Bechara et al. (1997), deciding well before knowing why — https://doi.org/10.1126/science.275.5... Reber (1967), learning hidden rules — https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(67... Nissen & Bullemer (1987), fingers that learn a pattern — https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(87)... Corkin (2002), patient H.M. and the mirror star — https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn726 Weiskrantz et al. (1974), blindsight — https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/97.1.709 North, Hargreaves & McKendrick (1997), in-store music and wine — https://doi.org/10.1038/36484 Holland, Hendriks & Aarts (2005), smells like clean spirit — https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2... Chartrand & Bargh (1999), the chameleon effect — https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.76.... Klein, Calderwood & Clinton-Cirocco (1986), decisions on the fire ground — https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931286030... Chase & Simon (1973), how chess masters see the board — https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(73)... Charlton & Starkey (2011), driving without awareness — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2011.04... Sio & Ormerod (2009), does a break help solve problems? — https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014212 Wagner et al. (2004), sleep inspires insight — https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02223 Arzi et al. (2012), learning new things during sleep — https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3193 Also mentioned: Brenda Milner's mirror drawing (1962), Édouard Claparède's hidden pin (1911), Gary Klein, Sources of Power (1998), Henri Poincaré, Science and Method (1908), Graham Wallas, The Art of Thought (1926). This video is for relaxation and general education, not medical advice. If sleeplessness is affecting your daily life, please talk to a doctor. #psychologyforsleep #sleepstory #boringpsychologyforsleep #subconsciousmind #fallasleepfast #sleepymindpalace