• Ep12. Sleep, Dreams and Mental Health

  • Apr 21 2021
  • Length: 35 mins
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Ep12. Sleep, Dreams and Mental Health

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  • This episode considers some of the emotion processing and regulating functions of both sleep and dreaming.

     

    We consider some of the many aspects of mental health that sleep and dreaming are related to, such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and psychosis. We focus on nightmares as a manifestation of disordered emotion processing.

     

    Dr. Michelle Carr, researcher of dreams and nightmares, talks to us about how we may use our sleep-subjective experience for insight into our mental health, as well as how we might be able to engineer our dreams in the future.

     

    Dr. Carr’s Aeon magazine piece on nightmare re-scripting: 

    https://aeon.co/essays/in-sleep-the-body-is-a-channel-to-communicate-with-the-dreaming-mind

     

    Follow Michelle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darwinsdreams

     

     

    Follow Dr Caroline Horton at DrEAMSLab

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/sleepandmemory

     

    Subscribe to The Sleep Science Pod:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sleep-science-pod/id1550113366

     


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