The Guardians of Sleep
Episodes
Season 2 Episode 4: Hala Alyan
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the award-winning Palestinian-American novelist, poet, and clinical psychologist, Hala Alyan, speaks with guest host Jouzain Wahhab a...
Season 2 Episode 3: Amy Shawanda
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Amy Shawanda, an Indigenous health scholar from McGill University, discusses Anishnaabe methods for working with dream knowledge ...
Season 2 Episode 2: Edward McGushin
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered why—and when—dreams stopped being treated as an important source of knowledge in Western societies? In this episode, host S...
Season 2 Episode 1: Abigail Echo-Hawk
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Abigail Echo-Hawk, an international leader in Indigenous public health research and the decolonization of data. In this episode,...
Season 2 Teaser
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2 of Guardians of Sleep delves into the colonial history that devalued dream life and highlights contemporary Indigenous methods for attending ...
Episode 6: The Guardians
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of our first season, we present some of our concluding thoughts about how dreaming served as a mental resource during the Covid-...
Episode 5: Ruby
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Ruby who dreams of aliens and tunnels as a way to represent her experience of the pandemic. The focus also turns to the i...
Episode 4: Pinny and Iris
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Pinny, a documentary filmmaker, and her 9-year-old daughter, Iris. Mother and daughter share the ability to luc...
Episode 3: Peter
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Peter, a retired commodities trader who has an interest in the neuroscience of dreaming. This episode is part ...
Episode 2: Kavita
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Kavita, a self-described free-spirit, born and raised in London. In one of her dreams, she visits a funeral for a Black m...
Episode 1: Dr. Rao
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Dr. Ishani Rao, a London-based doctor who has been working on the COVID wards since March o...
Season 1 Teaser
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A teaser of the first season of The Guardians of Sleep, which investigates how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the dream life of people living in t...