Oct 1, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken continue their conversation about sleep disorders with Dr Sophie West, a consultant respiratory physician and lead of Newcastle regional sleep service. They explore…
Chris van TullekenHostAnd I tell you what, I tell you what, you may go, "Look, I can't, I can't manage all this at the moment with job, kids, whatever." It may just be that you can't psychologically or practically set your alarm for a regular time every day.
But I think it's very nice to go, "Yeah, but in a couple of years when my job changes, my shift pattern improves, my kids are older, whatever the thing is, my exams are finished, you know, I'm retired, whatever the moment is, there is a thing I can do." And I often think, "Oh, I can't do the wellness thing now.
Today's not the right day to start the diet or start training for the marathon." But I know it's out there, and I know I will be able to do it, and I can build up to it slowly.
I think, I think it's genuinely great to go, "I know what I'm gonna have to do, and I can try and slowly arrange my life to do it." That's all right.
What I enjoyed was when you asked Sophie about your-- You started to ask about dreams, and she did not wanna hear about your dream.
I mean, one thing, regardless of whether or not we believe that dreams predict the future, am I an oracle? That's for another episode.
But the idea that you could control your dreams I found very interesting, particularly, Chris, because remember in our memory episode, Linda said that your brain, your memories can't distinguish between things you've imagined, things that you've dreamed, and things that have actually happened and things you've been told about.
And so, um, if you can take the memory of a dream and kind of recreate it and create a new memory that you've just imagined, your subconscious will kind of grab that and, and do something with it at night.
Well, it was all fascinating and reassuring and optimistic in equal measure.
And I tell you what, I tell you what, you may go, "Look, I can't, I can't manage all this at the moment with job, kids, whatever." It may just be that you can't psychologically or practically set your alarm for a regular time every day.
But I think it's very nice to go, "Yeah, but in a couple of years when my job changes, my shift pattern improves, my kids are older, whatever the thing is, my exams are finished, you know, I'm retired, whatever the moment is, there is a thing I can do." And I often think, "Oh, I can't do the wellness thing now.
Today's not the right day to start the diet or start training for the marathon." But I know it's out there, and I know I will be able to do it, and I can build up to it slowly.
I think, I think it's genuinely great to go, "I know what I'm gonna have to do, and I can try and slowly arrange my life to do it." That's all right.
What I enjoyed was when you asked Sophie about your-- You started to ask about dreams, and she did not wanna hear about your dream.
I mean, one thing, regardless of whether or not we believe that dreams predict the future, am I an oracle? That's for another episode.
But the idea that you could control your dreams I found very interesting, particularly, Chris, because remember in our memory episode, Linda said that your brain, your memories can't distinguish between things you've imagined, things that you've dreamed, and things that have actually happened and things you've been told about.
And so, um, if you can take the memory of a dream and kind of recreate it and create a new memory that you've just imagined, your subconscious will kind of grab that and, and do something with it at night.
Well, it was all fascinating and reassuring and optimistic in equal measure.
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