The Sleep Science Pod

This episode explores the most common kinds of sleep disorder and disruption, including, but not limited to, insomnia. We debate at what point normal troubled sleep becomes seriously problematic, and also consider how we might be able to deal with such disorders.   https://www.sleepio.com/ - online CBTi programme to help assess and treat difficulties sleeping.  Follow Dr Caroline Horton at DrEAMSLabTwitter: https://twitter.com/sleepandmemory Subscribe to The Sleep Science Pod:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sleep-science-pod/id1550113366

In the current episode we learn about sleep needs of infants up to young adults, which helps us to recognise how we can support them to sleep sufficiently.We recognise the challenges of limiting distractions for the ever-switched on toddler, and consider sleep phase delay in adolescents. In younger children, a regular routine is crucial, but in teenage years we learn of the need to be a little more flexible around their natural inclination to sleep later.We hear from College Principal David Vasse, who has implemented a later school start time, to facilitate the opportunity for teens to sleep a little longer.The Sleep Charity resource on teen’s sleep: https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/The-Teen-Sleep-Hub-eBook.pdfBBC news item covering the demand from parents, scientists and educators to start school later: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-47164545Follow Dr Caroline Horton at DrEAMSLabTwitter: https://twitter.com/sleepandmemorySubscribe to The Sleep Science Pod:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sleep-science-pod/id1550113366

In this episode we acknowledge and explore why some people seem likely to remember many more dreams than others, both in terms of memory features and characteristics of dreams. Some dreams are simply more recallable than others, and some people are more likely to forget their dreams than remember them.Whilst we all seem comparably likely to function well in our waking lives whether we remember our dreams or not, we learn that we still need to sleep in order to have the opportunity to dream.Two guests this week, fellow psychologists Dr’s Alyson Blanchard and Tom Dunn from Bishop Grosseteste University, tell me about their sleep and dream recall patterns, and how they think they can make sense of them.Follow Dr Caroline Horton at DrEAMSLabTwitter: https://twitter.com/sleepandmemorySubscribe to The Sleep Science Pod:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sleep-science-pod/id1550113366