Stickgold's articles in the popular press are intended to illustrate the dangers of sleep deprivation.

[2] Stickgold's research has focused on sleep and cognition, dreaming, and conscious states.

Even patients with anterograde amnesia, who did not remember playing the game, had similar dreams as normal participants.

[4] Similar results were found in another study utilizing the video game Alpine Racer 2.

In 1973, he had his novelette "Susies Reality" published in the May/June issue of "Worlds of IF Science Fiction" anthology magazine.