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Feb 2025
22m 38s

#92 - The Healing Powers of Sleep

DR. MATT WALKER
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This week Matt explores dreams, questioning if their specific content matters beyond the normal benefits of REM sleep. This episode examines dreaming's significance for creativity, memory integration, and its role as emotional first aid. The discussion then introduces a "hot off the press" study showing how dreams might help us shed unwanted memories, with i ... Show More
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