Do not think of what is happening with your sleeping brain as something passive, quiet, unimportant.

We have something called sleep pressure. If you skip a night of sleep, the next day you're're you are being forced to lie down and that's

not your body that's your brain and in my opinion the brain sleeps in order to

dream gosh if we dream up to a third of our lives, we rarely spend time thinking

about our dreams, reflecting about our dreams. We see them as this, whoa, that was wild last

night. Let's get back to the day. What I'm saying is give the thoughts of last night some reflection.

Rahul Jandial is a neuroscientist. He's clear that what we dream about when we're asleep has a very real effect on our waking life.

This is the Lizzo Well-being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half. I'm Liz Earl and as I'm sure you know by now I am on a bit of a mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today. So to Dreaming in just a moment, but first some news,

I am incredibly excited to share with you my new book, A Better Second Half. It's out now, just out. It is on the bookshop shelves.

Tada. And it is all about everything that we talk about here, how to thrive in later life.

Not just survive survive but thrive.

And that means prioritising sleep.

And of course, when we think about sleep, we think about dreams.

How much thought do you actually give to your dreams? Do you try to unravel what you think your

friend's dream must mean? Or do you think that they're just odd stories that don't really mean

anything in particular? For me, I have a recurring dream dream so I'm going to be interested to

unpack that it's usually where I get to the top of a very very tall building and then

have the choice to either jump or fly. Hmm interesting. Well, Dr Rahul Jandial is a dual-trained neuroscientist and neurosurgeon who oversees

groundbreaking science at the Jandial Lab in Los Angeles. In his latest book, This is Why You Dream,

he explains just how what we dream about at night can impact our capabilities during the day. So can dreaming make us

cleverer, more creative, better at problem solving? Can dreaming even foresee

serious diseases.

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