Robert Stickgold
Professor of psychiatry and co-author of When Brains Dream, contributing expertise on sleep, memory processing, and the biological functions of dreaming.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 32min
To Sleep, Perchance To Dream
Siddhartha Ribeiro, neuroscientist and author of The Oracle of Night, explores dreaming as an evolutionary tool for memory, emotion, and imagining futures. Robert Stickgold, psychiatry professor, explains sleep stages and how dreaming consolidates learning. Tony Zadra, psychology professor, discusses how dreams resist simple definition and how sharing them shaped culture and creativity.
Aug 5, 2021 • 41min
Time Machine
In Revolution-era Iran, a woman dreams her own death. Guests discuss dream science, intuition, time perception, the Iranian revolution, stress, sleep, healing childhood trauma, and the power of dreams to connect with departed loved ones.
