Books on Pod with Trey Elling | 2 February 2021 | 1h 06m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold about their book When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep. Discusses why Freud receives too much credit regarding dreams; how the discovery of REM sleep in the 1950s was a game-changer; how sleep uses dreams to process memories and emotions; whether dogs dream; their NEXTUP model of dream function; how REM sleep and taking LSD illicit a similar chemical reaction in the brain; dream incubation; lucid dreams; PTSD-induced dreams; and more.