Dreams
Professor Ronald Postuma: Dreams and Parkinson's
The number of people with Parkinson's Disease in New Zealand has been steadily increasing with about 1 in every 100 people over age 60 estimated to get it - and there is no cure ... just a managing of… Audio
Prof Robert Stickgold: how advertisers want to hack our dreams
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but marketing companies are now exploring the potential of advertising their products to us while we sleep. Audio
Erik Hoel: how our weird dreams could be keeping our brains fit
Nobody really knows why we dream. Erik Hoel, a research assistant professor of neuroscience at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was inspired by the techniques used to train artificial neural… Audio
Stories from around New Zealand and the World
Dr Deidre Barrett from Harvard Medical School is a dream expert and has been collecting people's pandemic dreams to put in her new book called Pandemic Dreams. Jesse spoke to Dr Barrett in May and… Audio
How Covid-19 is affecting your dreams
Feel like you're dreaming a lot more recently? You're not alone. Many people are reporting unusually vivid dreams during the Covid-19 lockdown. Professor Mark Blagrove, a sleep and dream researcher at… Audio
Harvard survey of Covid anxiety dreams
Harvard medical school psychologist Dr Deirdre Barrett has collected in a dream survey during the pandemic. Audio
Julie Fry: mythbusting New Zealander's attitudes about ambition
Julie Fry is herself quite ambitious. She's a consulting economist who spends time between New York and Motueka. Together with Hayden Glass, who's equally qualified and ambitious, they have written… Audio
Your brain is “rubbish” at distinguishing between reality and dreams
Myths, misunderstandings and current research into the brain are discussed by Associate Professor Cathy Stinear from the University of Auckland during the 2018 Raising the Bar night. Audio
Story of the day for 19 November 2018
We all dream at night, but quite a few people never remember their dreams. Audio
Nabakov's future dreams
What if your dreams could tell the future?
Famed Russian-American author Vladimir Nabakov tested just that theory by keeping a dream diary documenting 64 dreams over 80 days and ordering them with… Audio
Margaret Bowater - Nightmares
Margaret Bowater is president of the Dream Network Aotearoa and regional representative on the International Association for the Study of Dreams. And she's the author Healing the Nightmare - Freeing… Audio
Music and Dreams Part 4
Lucid dreaming, fantasy and its technical realisation. Since ancient times, the arts have been inspired by dreams. Ryan Smith looks at some famous composers from different eras who have lifted ideas… Video, Audio
Music and Dreams Part 3
Mermaids, the Messiah and a sacrificial maiden - Archetypes in dreams and music
Since ancient times, the arts have been inspired by dreams. Ryan Smith looks at some famous composers from different… Audio
Music and Dreams Part 2
The dark side of dreams - Nightmares and madness
Since ancient times, the arts have been inspired by dreams. Ryan Smith looks at some famous composers from different eras who have lifted ideas and… Audio
Music and Dreams Part 1
Welcome to the pleasure dome - An introduction to dreams and music.
Since ancient times, the arts have been inspired by dreams. Ryan Smith looks at some famous composers from different eras who have… Audio
The significance of dreams
Do our dreams provide any important insight into our psyche? Audio
What I do is build an unreal house and I fill it with real storms
An intensely personal memoir by one of the country's leading writers of fantasy, exploring the roots of her interest in alternative reality, and intertwining her own story, and that of her family into… Audio
Slash - the man behind the tophat
Synonymous with a Les Paul guitar, stacks of Marshall amps and that leather top hat, guitar god Slash is one of the last of a dying breed of rock star archetypes. Zac Arnold puts his own questions and… Audio
Feature Interview - Jeffery Kripal
Embracing the unexplained - dreams that come true - feelings of de ja vu. We talk to professor Jeffery Kripal who is the head of religious studies at Rice University in Texas. He says we need to study… Audio
Shadow: a free new app building a global database of our dreams
Hunter Lee Soik is launching a new app called Shadow, initially for iPhone, which allows us to record our dreams and make sense of them. He wants to develop the biggest dream database in the world… Audio