{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5eea7cbb22c05e06fdb38e52/60806af3a98e7d36b4ae9ab0?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ep12. Sleep, Dreams and Mental Health","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5eea7cbb22c05e06fdb38e52/1619028619962-596a92ac51ba3c4ebb48c52af4360a39.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This episode considers some of the emotion processing and regulating functions of both sleep and dreaming.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We consider some of the many aspects of mental health that sleep and dreaming are related to, such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and psychosis. We focus on nightmares as a manifestation of disordered emotion processing.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dr. Michelle Carr, researcher of dreams and nightmares, talks to us about how we may use our sleep-subjective experience for insight into our mental health, as well as how we might be able to engineer our dreams in the future.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dr. Carr’s Aeon magazine piece on nightmare re-scripting:&nbsp;</p><p><u>https://aeon.co/essays/in-sleep-the-body-is-a-channel-to-communicate-with-the-dreaming-mind</u></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Follow Michelle on Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/darwinsdreams\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://twitter.com/darwinsdreams</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Follow Dr Caroline Horton at DrEAMSLab</p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/sleepandmemory\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://twitter.com/sleepandmemory</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Subscribe to The Sleep Science Pod:</p><p><a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sleep-science-pod/id1550113366\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sleep-science-pod/id1550113366</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Caroline Horton"}