Ian Sample

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2,123 appearances 29 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Ian Sample’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 29 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 8.

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Science Weekly · Revisited: The surprising science of dreams and nightmares · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

You know, there are these old cliches like dreaming that your teeth are falling out means that you have money worries or something like that. voice-verified

But, you know, putting those aside, can dreams offer sort of insights that might be useful to us in our waking lives? voice-verified

And this was something our listener Karina wondered about. voice-verified

Michelle, we've talked about how dreams can be both good and bad. voice-verified

But in the book, you make a distinction between a bad dream and a nightmare, that nightmares are more sensorially intense. voice-verified

They're more likely to wake us. voice-verified

And of course, they're particularly scary. voice-verified

And we had a couple of listeners get in touch about nightmares. voice-verified

Here's Sean. voice-verified

So what do we know about why some people experience more nightmares than others? voice-verified

Should we be thinking of nightmares as being sort of purely maladaptive, just, you know, essentially bad things? voice-verified

Or do they seem to actually have some value, perhaps if they're not horrendously intense and crippling? voice-verified

Is there anything that nightmare sufferers can do for themselves if they want to try and reduce their impact or their frequency? voice-verified

Coming up, how can we take control of our dreaming life? voice-verified

So, Michelle, what you're talking about there is this technique of dream engineering and you run this dream engineering lab. voice-verified

It actually sounds in a positive sense, like it actually sounds great fun. voice-verified

And it makes me wonder if we can control our sort of normal dreams in a positive way to, I don't know, explore new worlds or new situations. voice-verified

And just finally, Michelle, I'm sure some of our listeners will want to do some experimentation with this. voice-verified

What are your top tips for trying to take control of dreams and even to be able to lucid dream where we work out that we're dreaming and take charge of what's happening? voice-verified

Yeah, well, it's absolutely fascinating. voice-verified

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