The Aging Games Podcast with Lynn Hardy
Aug 31, 2026 · 45 min · 11 segments
My beautiful friend Lynda Samphire joins me again for another fascinating conversation where we explore the deeper connections between mental health, sleep, and earth medicine. In this episode we…
Lynda SamphireGuest
Lynn HardyHost
And what I have found is when we begin like microdosing, whether it is with like psilocybin or Amanita, we begin having more vivid dreams.
More vivid dreams because what's happening in the dream world is, I mean, first and foremost, what we want is we want our emotions to be in that REM state to be integrating and through our bodies, right? Metabolizing.
And that's where that beta amyloid protein linked to Alzheimer's and dementia is getting cleaned out.
Wouldn't it, it'd be interesting to do a study and see like how many with what the sleep, what their sleep was like with Alzheimer's and dementia.
And
just see if they slept well, if they didn't, if they were a drinker, which suppresses REM.
And at night, all the buildings go down flat and a truck comes and cleans all the garbage away.
And what I have found is when we begin like microdosing, whether it is with like psilocybin or Amanita, we begin having more vivid dreams.
More vivid dreams because what's happening in the dream world is, I mean, first and foremost, what we want is we want our emotions to be in that REM state to be integrating and through our bodies, right? Metabolizing.
And that's where that beta amyloid protein linked to Alzheimer's and dementia is getting cleaned out.
Wouldn't it, it'd be interesting to do a study and see like how many with what the sleep, what their sleep was like with Alzheimer's and dementia.
And
just see if they slept well, if they didn't, if they were a drinker, which suppresses REM.
And at night, all the buildings go down flat and a truck comes and cleans all the garbage away.
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