The Adaptive Brain Series: Regulation: How Your Brain Decides Whether You Are Safe Ep.2 -194

What does regulation actually mean?

Well, you mentioned in that beautiful explanation there how we talked about this a bit before, the mismatch, this word mismatch.

So if we're gonna talk about regulation, let's, what are the, the people listening on, "There's a mismatch? I didn't hear that episode." I better...

Well, you, but gotta go back first to the episode.

Sure.

But a mismatch in the sensory information.

So my sensory information, meaning what I see, what I hear, when I move my head, what my, what my inner ear is telling me about where I am in space, my body, sensory information is creating my reality and your reality.

Mm-hmm.

So if my sensory information is completely blurry-

[laughs]

... then my sensory information is mismatched with the environment, right? I can't see, so it's hard to move through the environment smoothly and without, and with ease.

If my sensory information in my vestibular system is mismatched, meaning maybe one side is calibrated higher than the other, then maybe I'm feeling like the room is spinning.

But the reality is the room is not spinning, but your reality is the room is spinning.

So you have a sensory mismatch.

Mm.

And there can be other aspects I won't go into with the body.

Mm-hmm.

So a mismatch in your sensory inputs can cause you to feel unsafe.

Right.

What does that mean? Well, we can say it another way, that your nervous system becomes dysregulated.

Have you ever had difficulty seeing, maybe it's in a dark area, or maybe because you didn't have your glasses, and you feel a little bit more hesitant in your movements? Because especially in the dark, I know that I h- get that in the evening sometimes when I have to get up from the bed, and sometimes we like to rearrange things in our home from time to time just to kind of make things fresh.

And sometimes things are-

When he says we-

... rearranged and-

When he says we, he means me.

What does regulation actually mean?

Well, you mentioned in that beautiful explanation there how we talked about this a bit before, the mismatch, this word mismatch.

So if we're gonna talk about regulation, let's, what are the, the people listening on, "There's a mismatch? I didn't hear that episode." I better...

Well, you, but gotta go back first to the episode.

Sure.

But a mismatch in the sensory information.

So my sensory information, meaning what I see, what I hear, when I move my head, what my, what my inner ear is telling me about where I am in space, my body, sensory information is creating my reality and your reality.

Mm-hmm.

So if my sensory information is completely blurry-

[laughs]

... then my sensory information is mismatched with the environment, right? I can't see, so it's hard to move through the environment smoothly and without, and with ease.

If my sensory information in my vestibular system is mismatched, meaning maybe one side is calibrated higher than the other, then maybe I'm feeling like the room is spinning.

But the reality is the room is not spinning, but your reality is the room is spinning.

So you have a sensory mismatch.

Mm.

And there can be other aspects I won't go into with the body.

Mm-hmm.

So a mismatch in your sensory inputs can cause you to feel unsafe.

Right.

What does that mean? Well, we can say it another way, that your nervous system becomes dysregulated.

Have you ever had difficulty seeing, maybe it's in a dark area, or maybe because you didn't have your glasses, and you feel a little bit more hesitant in your movements? Because especially in the dark, I know that I h- get that in the evening sometimes when I have to get up from the bed, and sometimes we like to rearrange things in our home from time to time just to kind of make things fresh.

And sometimes things are-

When he says we-

... rearranged and-

When he says we, he means me.