Dr. Matt Walker: The Science of Dreams, Nightmares & Lucid Dreaming | Huberman Lab Guest Series

[Music] welcome to the hubman lab guest Series where I and an expert guest discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life I'm Andrew huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and Opthalmology at Stanford school of medicine today marks the sixth episode in our sixth episode series all about sleep with expert guest Dr Matthew

Walker today's episode focuses on sleep and dreaming as well as lucid dreaming we talk about what's happening in your brain when you dream both mundane dream as well as heavily emotionally Laden dreams and we discuss how to think about and perhaps even interpret the content of your dreams and we talk about lucid

dreaming which are dreams that occur while in sleep of course in which you are aware that you are dreaming and because Unfortunately they are relatively common we also talk about nightmares and both what to do about nightmares as well as how to think about nightmares this being the final episode in the six episode series all about

sleep I put the call out on my social media handles for any and all questions about sleep that I could direct to Dr Matthew Walker so as today's episode closes I ask him those questions focusing specifically on the questions that were most frequently asked by you the audience and he answers them in

Rapid succession before we begin I'd like to emphasize that this podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford it is however part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to Consumer information about science and science related tools to the general public in keeping with that theme I'd like to thank the sponsors of today's