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Sleep medicine doctors and psychologists who study dreams and nightmares aren’t surprised people are disturbed by the unsettling new hit TV show. Here’s why.

Juan Moyano/Stocksy Every second Sunday in March marks the start of daylight saving time (DST), the annual period of the year the clocks are shifted one hour ahead. In 2021, DST officially starts at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 14. Jumping the clock forward and back to standard time every year was designed as a way to optimize daylight hours, which supposedly nets energy savings, prevents traffic accidents, and reduces crime, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. But for those who live...

>> earlier, i sat down with dan on the "nightline" set and asked him how he made this transition to meditation. >> my wife gave me a book and it was about buddhism. and i thought, okay, this is interesting. it seemed to have the diagnosis of the human condition i thought was right. we have this racing mind, commenting, judging, et cetera. but it said the ant dote is meditation. thats completely -- >> thats -- >> thats not it. i associated with it insense and random malarkey that i wasnt going to...

>> were going now to dan harris whos at the news desk. dan. >> reporter: this is me ten years ago having a panic attack on "good morning america." >> but its too early to prescribe statins slowly for cancer production. >> reporter: my heart racing, palms sweating, i literally cannot breath. this meltdown, i later learned, was brought on by a personal struggle so many of us face. a combination of doubt, drive, depression and drug abuse. so, i went in search of something to tame my racing mind, in...

It was emotional eating. >> eating was like my security blanket. >> reporter: and for a young dr. oz, it was a racing mind that kept him from focusing on one thing at a time. >> for me saying a voice in the head is too benign an expression of what really happens. that massive cacophony that we hear, deafeningly loud. >> reporter: does it surprise you how much time we all spend fixating on these self-defeating voices we hear? >> i have always been surprised how much time we spend wasted on the vo...