The brain is wired to fill in gaps, and that drive shapes everything from vision to dreams to romantic longing. Armand DiMele and Dr. Sherry Siegel, M.D. trace the neuroscience of synapses and blind spots outward to nightmares, compulsive thinking, and why an excited amygdala conjures danger from thin air.
Nightmares may be the brain’s rehearsal for survival, not signs of disorder. Armand DiMele draws on evolutionary theory, neuroscience, and Greek mythology to argue that dreams, darkness, and REM sleep are biological necessities our modern world systematically undermines. Callers share vivid shared dreams and relationship anxieties.
Sleep is rarely discussed in therapy, but your bedtime rituals reveal more about you than almost anything else. Armand DiMele walks through the psychology of sleep habits, shared beds, and disorders from insomnia and hypersomnia to sleepwalking and night terrors, then takes callers through their own sleep secrets.
