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

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This episode explores the most common kinds of sleep disorder and disruption, including, but not limited to, insomnia.

We debate at what point normal troubled sleep becomes seriously problematic, and also consider how we might be able to deal with such disorders.

https://www.sleepio.com/ - online CBTi programme to help assess and treat difficulties sleeping.

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In the current episode we learn about sleep needs of infants up to young adults, which helps us to recognise how we can support them to sleep sufficiently.

We recognise the challenges of limiting distractions for the ever-switched on toddler, and consider sleep phase delay in adolescents. In younger children, a regular routine is crucial, but in teenage years we learn of the need to be a little more flexible around their natural inclination to sleep later.

We hear from College Principal David Vasse, who has implemented a later school start time, to facilitate the opportunity for teens to sleep a little longer.

The Sleep Charity resource on teen’s sleep: https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/The-Teen-Sleep-Hub-eBook.pdf

BBC news item covering the demand from parents, scientists and educators to start school later: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-47164545

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