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How to Hack Your Sleep: The science of bizarre sleep phenomena
Research over the past few decades has proven that getting a good night’s sleep is essential for our health and wellbeing. But sometimes strange things can happen in our brains while we’re asleep.
In this episode we catch up with Dr Dan Denis, a sleep researcher and lecturer at the University of York’s department of psychology.
He tells us what happens in our brains and bodies when we dream, why some of us are prone to sleepwalking and even sleep eating, and talks about the strange phenomenon of lucid dreaming.
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