Robert Stickgold - Why Sleep?

Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Why do we spend so much of our lives not awake? The physical benefits of sleep cannot be overstated, from fighting disease to ensuring brain health. But what do sleeping and dreaming reveal about consciousness? If consciousness is a mystery, could sleep and dreams provide clues to a solution? Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Watch more interviews on sleep and dreams: https://bit.ly/3QgUIR0 Robert Stickgold is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: https://bit.ly/3He94Ns Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.