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
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.
Mar 14, 2025 • 54min
S3E3 - Can sleep make us more creative?
Delphine Oudiette, researcher of sleep and hypnagogia; Adam Horowitz, inventor of the Dormio dream-incubation device; Bob Stickgold, neuroscientist linking dreaming to cognition; Celia Lacaux, postdoc who found N1 boosts insight. They discuss how N1 sleep and hypnagogic imagery relate to creative problem solving, mechanisms like frontal disengagement and targeted incubation, and practical uses of sleep-onset techniques.
