The Guardians of Sleep: Recent Episodes
The Museum of Dreams
The Guardians of Sleep takes a fresh look at the landscape of dream life. Built out of conversations with the public and encompassing work by scientists, artists, and philosophers, this podcast explores how dreaming serves as an integral psychological process that helps us work through the struggles we face in our waking lives.
Hosted by Dr. Sharon Sliwinski, creator of the Museum of Dreams.
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-19 pandemic. Topics include how dreams return us to early childhood memories, how they draw on shared cultural material, and symbolically shape new experiences.
This episode is the last in a larger project investigating how the pandemic has affected the dream-life of people living in the British capital, which was developed in partnership with the Museum of London (UK) and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Hosted by Sharon Sliwinski and edited by Erin MacIndoe Sproule with music by Andrew Braun.
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 interaction between Ruby and her interviewer: What kind of listening is required to attune to a stranger’s dream life? How is the skill of listening to the other intertwined with the ability to listen to oneself? And what new kinds of conversation can be made from this form of attunement?
This episode is part of larger project investigating how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the dream-life of people living in the British capital, which was developed in partnership with the Museum of London (UK) and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Hosted by Sharon Sliwinski and edited by Erin MacIndoe Sproule with music by Andrew Braun.
In this episode we hear from Pinny, a documentary filmmaker, and her 9-year-old daughter, Iris. Mother and daughter share the ability to lucid dream.
This episode is part of larger project investigating how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the dream-life of people living in the British capital, which was developed in partnership with the Museum of London (UK) and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Hosted by Sharon Sliwinski and edited by Erin MacIndoe Sproule with music by Andrew Braun.
In this episode we hear from Peter, a retired commodities trader who has an interest in the neuroscience of dreaming.
This episode is part of larger project investigating how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the dream-life of people living in the British capital, which was developed in partnership with the Museum of London (UK) and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Hosted by Sharon Sliwinski and edited by Erin MacIndoe Sproule with music by Andrew Braun.
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 man and spots Princess Diana in a garden.
This episode is part of larger project investigating how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the dream-life of people living in the British capital, which was developed in partnership with the Museum of London (UK) and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Hosted by Sharon Sliwinski and edited by Erin MacIndoe Sproule with music by Andrew Braun
In this episode we hear from Dr. Ishani Rao, a London-based doctor who has been working on the COVID wards since March of 2020.
This episode is part of larger project investigating how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the dream-life of people living in the British capital, which was developed in partnership with the Museum of London (UK) and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Hosted by Sharon Sliwinski and edited by Erin MacIndoe Sproule with music by Andrew Braun
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 the British capital.
Produced in partnership with the Museum of London (UK) and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Hosted by Sharon Sliwinski and edited by Erin MacIndoe Sproule, with music by Andrew Braun.