20 Jul 2025

Sleep expert: Professor Russell Foster

From Sunday Morning, 8:13 am on 20 July 2025

Do you suffer from nightmares or night terrors? Professor Russell Foster is director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford and he’s with Jim to answer your questions about bad dreams and poor sleep. 

insomniac woman 
Woman struggling to wake up in the morning.

Nightmares happen during so-called rapid-eye-movement sleep when the brain is highly active but muscles are paralysed. Photo: COLLANGES / BSIP / BSIP via AFP