Rahul Jandial joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how dreams help our brains function, why they are essential to memory and why dreams across cultures are remarkably similar.
Read more
Decoding your dreams
Rahul Jandial joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how dreams help our brains function, why they are essential to memory and why dreams across cultures are remarkably similar.
Read more
How poverty steals peoples’ dreams
Professor Karen A. Cerulo joins us to discuss the impact socioeconomic status, gender and race can have on your dreams.
Read more
What’s really happening when we dream
Antonio Zadra, a researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about neuroscientific insights into our dreaming minds.
Read more
The surprising small beginnings of big social movements
Gal Beckerman explains the origins of big ideas – from the scientific revolution to feminism – and the surprising ways movements spread.
Read more
Can we control the content of our dreams?
Michael W. Clune discusses the A.I. research into hacking into our sleeping brains in an effort to influence our dreams, and why that might make us more creative.
Read more
The science of your dreams
Neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro joins us to discuss how dreams are connected to how we learn and even how we understand our existence.
Read more
Your Brain On Autopilot
This hour, we’ll talk with a sleep expert about how the mind uses dreaming to process day-to-day events and prepare us for the future; we’ll learn how seeing “ghosts” might actually be a by-product of processing grief; and we’ll explore ways to cultivate the mind in order to achieve peak performance.
Read more