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Bob Stickgold
Professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in sleep and dream research with decades studying how and why we dream.
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Dec 11, 2025
• 27min
The Science of Dreaming
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Dr. Bob Stickgold, a leading sleep scientist from Harvard and MIT, delves into the fascinating world of dreams. He discusses how the brain creates dreams during REM sleep and the differences between nightmares and bad dreams. The duo explores theories on why we dream, including memory consolidation and emotional processing. They delve into dream manipulation, revealing how pre-sleep suggestions can influence dream content and even behavior, raising ethical questions about dream hacking. It's a captivating look into the mysteries of our nighttime narratives.
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