Welcome and thank you for listening to All Aboard The Dream Train. A dream storytelling podcast where people from all walks of life walk us through their dreams and how those dreams have affected them in their waking life. Where we explore the differences, similarities and connections between our dream life and our waking life.
In todays episode we hear from Paul Kalas.
I am a faculty member in the Astronomy Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and affiliated with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and the Institute of Astrophysics in Heraklion, Crete.
My expertise is searching for planetary systems around nearby stars using direct imaging. My methods involve data from the world's most advanced observatories, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, Keck Observatory, the Gemini Telescopes, and ALMA.
One remarkable image is the planetary system surrounding Fomalhaut (see below), which is a bright star located 25 light years away in the constellation Pisces Australis. Though direct images are difficult to obtain and currently quite rare, they provide unique and fundamental information about exoplanetary systems, such as:
- The masses of exoplanets, by analyzing how bright they appear and the properties of their orbits.
- Their composition, by analyzing the color of thermal emission from the planet, or by obtaining a spectrum.
- The origin of exoplanets, by comparing their current observed properties with simulations of how planets form in a circumstellar disk and subsequently evolve.
Ultimately, these data will give us an empirical notion of how common or rare our own planetary system must be in our own galaxy and throughout the universe.
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Time stamps:
2:30 Mariam Webster definition of precognition
3:55 Pauls Hobbies and how is interest in astronomy began
4:55 what helps relax and unwind? Try to watch something creatively stimulating
5:35 Keep a dream journal? Yes 2 actually. one for dreams that may hold significant, unusual,suprising,a puzzle or confusing information in the future. And one journal things that have come true from a dream.
7:04 mention of Ian Wilson and his YouTube channel and why it's a good way to journal.
7:50 sleep schedule? Night owl obviously being an astronomer.
8:19 Loves taking naps during the day!
8:22 track your sleep? Yes, he wore one throughout the years while writing his book. Shows a report of Rem and light sleep, when you woke up and other night time arousals.
9:40 found that he spends 1/3 of sleep in REM which is unusual
10:20 believes his micro arousals during sleep may help him remember his dreams
11:25 mention of reddit groups such as r/precognition
11:40 what interests you in dreams. Dreams that seem to come true in the future.
Deja vue (previously seen) or deja rêve (previously dreamed)
14:43 the dream that started his interest in precognitive dreams.
15:19 the phrase "jumping from a hay cart to a 16 wheeler"
17:16 having information about events that don't exist is counter intuitive / impossible. Even if you don't understand what's happening or if its impossible, record your observations truthfully and accurately without distortion and exaggeration
18:55 What was your initial feeling when you heard the child say that he was injured from "jumping from a hay cart to a 16 wheeler"
19:41 some people fear precognitive dreams / Pail enjoys them
20:55 What keeps you exploring the unknown?
21:21 Paul talks about his Fomalhaut discovery which was not known to exist with the use of the Hubbell telescope.
23:50 pauls original drawing was accurate but the name of the star he discovered was inaccurate. It was a different star he was studying at the time.
27:59 If you were able to spend 24 hours in the dream life with anyone of your choice who would you choose and why? Einstein duh!
28:50 How can you be in bed and at the same time be awake in the future doing something? Where are you exactly?
30:00 what's goin on when we sleep/nap for 10-15 minutes but it feels like 8-10 hours?
30:50 FMRI 's and brain activity and its measurements during sleep.
34:30 what are you excited about in the future of this research and what are some of your goals in the future?
Paul Kalas
http://paulkalas.com/
Link to his book "The Oneieronauts"
https://sites.google.com/view/oneironauts/home
Review of The Oneironauts by Ian Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgM6xAzIMxU&feature=youtu.be
52 slides from one of Pauls more recent talks at the 36th Annual IASD Conference
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k8l9ZyDw1Qbq_LxXJ6QDfS8afN1c8yPZ780BHcfq2go/edit
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