Keyword: nightmares

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The Hidden Life of Sleep and Dreams March 19, 2008

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

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 Rituals and Disorders September 21, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

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.