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Martin Dresler

@dresler.bsky.social
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PI @ Donders Sleep & Memory Lab, studying functions of sleep. Also brain hacks incl. lucid dreaming, polyphasic sleep, mnemonics. dreslerlab.org

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maramin.bsky.social @maramin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More info & sign-up: bit.ly/lucidathome (we close soon, so being fast is recommended!) Sleep & Memory lab Nijmegen: @dresler.bsky.social
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maramin.bsky.social @maramin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We're recruiting for our lucid dream induction study using a fully automated at-home set-up 💤 Already many people from Nijmegen and far beyond have joined. Now we are filling up our last spots... Sign-up: www.bit.ly/lucidathome Sharing appreciated! ▶️ @dresler.bsky.social @paulzerr.bsky.social
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Neurotech.eu winter school on smart sleep: exploring the future of sleep measurements. neurotecheu.i-med.ac.at/neurotecheu-...
Neurotech.eu winter school
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology or Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at Radboud University: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology or Neuropsychological Rehabilitation | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology or Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
End of August the University of Zurich is holding another Scientifica with the topic "Wie wir wissen schaffen". I am holding a presentation on how we study dreams, what we dream and why on Saturday 29. August at 4 pm. If you are interested, feel free to drop by! scientifica.ch/event/how-do...
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How Do We Study What We Dream? - Scientifica
Von verpassten Prüfungen bis hin zu fehlenden Hosen: Wenn wir schlafen, tauchen wir in Welten ein, die mal seltsam oder völlig unmöglich und mal völlig alltäglich sind. Doch wie können […]
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Simon Kern @skjerns.de · 22/07/2026
Are you a sleep researcher? Then we're interested in your opinion on preregistrations! Help advance the field by filling out this short (5-minute) survey redcap.link/1zg4tezm (Any career stage, doesn't matter if you've preregistered before or not, we need you. Please share!)
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Preregistration in Sleep Research - Practices and Barriers
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Night-to-night sleep EEG variability over one year: We found that intra-individual night-to-night variation was low for spectral power, sleep duration, N2 and REM sleep; medium for N3 and macrostructure; and high for sleep cycle duration, wake and N1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Night-to-night sleep EEG variability over one year
This study aimed to explore night-to-night variability of multiscale sleep patterns by analyzing subcutaneous electroencephalography (sqEEG) from 20 healthy participants over one year (205–388 nights ...
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Why do we forget our dreams? Dreams are the kind of experiences that in principle should stick well in memory: emotional and often bizarre. If we would encounter typical dream content during wakefulness, we would likely never forget it. Yet, we forget most dreams soon after awakening. (1/3)
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Tired of manually scoring your sleep recordings? Postdoc from our lab @paulzerr.bsky.social recently released NIDRA v0.2.3, an open-source autoscoring GUI & Python package for super simple sleep autoscoring using different established ML algorithms. Download here: nidra.netlify.app
Autoscoring by NIDRA.
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Cheating Hypnos: Can polyphasic sleep schedules reduce the need for sleep? academic.oup.com/sleep/advanc...
polyphasic sleep schedules
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Introducing one of the workshops at #ConfMusSleep: SLUMBER: A Framework for Home-Based Sleep Ex-periments Offering Dynamic Delivery of Auditory Stimuli. Led by Ali Saberi (RadboudUMC, NL), Samuel Morgan (Uni Stuttgart, DE), Tinke van Buijtene (UPF, ES). More info: confmussleep.au.dk #musicscience
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EEG101 COST Action @eeg101costaction.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
👋 Hello World! EEG101 is live! 🚀 🤝Join our global community for open, rigorous EEG science, academia & industry welcome! 🗓️ June 11–13, 2026: EEG101 Meeting at OHBM Brainhack, Bordeaux. 📢 Training & mobility funding coming soon! 🌐 www.eeg101.eu #EEG101 #OpenScience #Neuroscience #OHBM #Brainhack
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Gordon Feld @gordonfeld.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor Sessions on: memory processes sleep & replay analysis and stimulation techniques www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab... plz rp
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MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep
Join our 4-day summer school on memory consolidation, neural replay, and sleep. May 31–June 3, 2026 in Heidelberg. For Master, PhD students & postdocs.
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Job alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)
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Jobs - The University of York
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Lullabyte @lullabyte.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The registration for the 1st Conference on Music and Sleep is now open! 🎶💤 Early bird registration open until the 15/03 📆 Follow the link for info on fees and deadlines! #confmussleep #musicscience
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Giulio Bernardi @giuliobernardi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
⏳ 1 week left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, Lucca 🇮🇹)! A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking. 👉 Info: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
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Neuroscience of Dreaming
Although dreams have fascinated humankind since the earliest ages, their rigorous, scientific study is a rather new development, and has taken on considerable momentum in recent years. Far from being ...
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Elena Krugliakova @elenakru.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
😴 Our new review on non-invasive sleep stimulation in Physiological Reviews! Huge thanks to my shared first co-author Friederike Breuer, to Til Ole Bergmann & Martin Dresler for their supervision, and to all co-authors for an inspiring collaboration ✨ #SleepResearch #Donders
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Hacking the functions of sleep: Non-invasive approaches to stimulate sleep neurophysiology | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
Sleep is essentially contributing to human health and wellbeing through multiple biological functions, including restoration and biosynthesis, brain clearance, energy metabolism, immunological and end...
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Isabella Wagner 🧠🦠 @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Apply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠 #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"I learned how to control my dreams to better my mental health. Here’s how." www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/ho...
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I learned how to control my dreams to better my mental health. Here’s how | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Lucid dreaming has all manner of benefits, from honing your skills to defeating PTSD - if you can learn to control it
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Why the memory palace is mightier than the memory pharmacy: Mnemonic strategies considerably outperform pharmacological strategies of cognitive enhancement by providing cognitive tools that change the affordances of the learning task. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Some behavioral strategies or tools allow their user to massively outperform competitors or their former selves, as they are essentially performing a different task with that strategy/tool.
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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🧠💤 #Sleep is crucial for the production of #antibodies, the #clearing of harmful substances from the brain, and the release of #growthhormone. 👶🧒 Some recent examples of sleep benefits according to @dresler.bsky.social. Read the full article here: 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
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Why we sleep: insights from current research | Radboud University
In the sleep lab of Martin Dresler, scientists work every day to piece together the scientific puzzle of sleep. We spend roughly a third of our lives asleep, switching off for eight hours makes any or...
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SPACE Lab @spacelabimt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
⏳ One month left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)! 👉 Register by January 15: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it #dreamresearch #sleepresearch #sleepscience #neuroscience
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Neuroscience of Dreaming
Although dreams have fascinated humankind since the earliest ages, their rigorous, scientific study is a rather new development, and has taken on considerable momentum in recent years. Far from being ...
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Come work with us - as the scientific director of the >1000 neuroscientists at the Donders Institute: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Scientific Director Donders Institute | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Scientific Director Donders Institute at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century: 1. Dream engineering "For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..." www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
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The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century (so far), picked by the world’s top thinkers | BBC Science Focus Magazine
We're a quarter of the way into the new century. To mark this milestone, we asked the UK's top minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 20...
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Lullabyte @lullabyte.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We are currently looking for participants for an online survey on spatial experience of music when going to sleep. If you are interested and are over 18, click the link and listen to some music to help us out! The survey lasts around 15 minutes in total. z9j3c1atbx.cognition.run #Musicscience
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Lisa Genzel (she/her) @lgenzel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
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Application procedure – FKNE
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
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Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Eelke Spaak @eelkespaak.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I am now a Recommender (similar to Action Editor) at @pci-regreports.bsky.social. If you have any Registered Reports in the area of Sleep and Dreaming, I'd be very happy to take them on! #sleeppeeps rr.peercommunityin.org/about/recomm...
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PCI Registered Reports
Peer Community in Registered Reports
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming
We asked experts to share tips on how to take control of dreams once you realize you’re in it
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School
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Lisa Genzel (she/her) @lgenzel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
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We are hiring! — Semantic memory Lab
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🎶🛏️ Call for contributions! The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral). Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk #confmussleep #musicscience
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Elena Krugliakova @elenakru.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
NEMO museum in Amsterdam is located in a fantastic futuristic building, which looks like a spacecraft departing into the future NEMO team also does a lot for science communication with their online journal Some time ago, I gave them a short comment on the current sleep-enhancement technology
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Hersenhacken voor een diepe slaap
Een goede nachtrust komt zowel ons brein, als ons lichaam ten goede. Wetenschappers werken daarom aan methodes om onze diepe slaap te ‘hacken’. Wat mogen we daarvan de komende tijd verwachten?
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Sleep and dreams as reflected by science fiction literature and films - anything to learn from? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Sleep and dreams are frequent themes in science fiction (Sci-Fi) literature and films, often used to explore questions about consciousness, reality, technology and the human experience. Sci-Fi author...
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SPACE Lab @spacelabimt.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
🧠 The official website of the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School, Lucca, Italy) is now live: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it 👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!
Neuroscience of Dreaming - Summer School 
May 4-8, 2026 @ IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
17,058 proposals received, 1,650 to be funded. Break-even, where more money is paid out than burned by the process, is ~2 months time investment per application (assuming only few admin/review/non-submitted efforts). Uncomfortably close to predatory territory: doi.org/10.1111/imcb...
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<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library
Researchers are spending an increasing fraction of their time on applying for funding; however, the current funding system has considerable deficiencies in reliably evaluating the merit of research p....
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Disturbed sleep is a leading symptom and likely causal factor for the development of psychiatric diseases such as mood disorders. Here we review how sleep is altered in depression, and discuss the role of sleep for therapeutic approaches: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
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Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression
Sleep disturbances are both a primary symptom of and risk factor for major depressive disorder (MDD). Sleep alterations in MDD include the presence of insomnia or hypersomnia and aberrations in sleep ...
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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
If you are at #WorldSleep25 and interested in Dreaming, come by my Poster 75 at 5.30 today! Also happy to chat about any other of my interests, such as infant sleep, gut microbiota, and so on, at the poster or over a tea! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social
Scientific poster on dreaming
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
🧠🧪 New paper in #NCONSC 🧠🧪 What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering? We explore this possibility in a new review: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt! #consciousness #dreaming
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Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing
Abstract. Fluctuations in the presence, experiential quality and contents of consciousness occur naturally during sleep and wakefulness and are core featur
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Mariana Pereira @marianapereira.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
From sleep 💤 to dreams 🌙 to daydreams ☁️ - what is the brain up to? I’m excited to host a mini-symposium before my PhD defense! Join us in person or online, details in the flyer! @sarahschoch.bsky.social @dresler.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Our lab is starting a new study on dreaming 🚨GREAT NEWS!🚨: YOU may be eligible to participate! If interested, follow this link to a screening survey: furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #SleepPeeps #psychscisky #cogsci 🧠🟦
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Participate in Dream Research!
Why do you dream? Help us find out via a remote 10-day survey. Participants will receive up to $75 on completion of the study. Sign up here: https://furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_574ifz2NqDP9oJU and email sleepandcognitionlab@gmail.com with any questions.
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
‪Excited to share that the 1. International Conf. on Music & Sleep (May 6–8, 2026) takes place in the stunning Chamber Music Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus 🎶 A bright, elegant venue with views of ARoS. More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk @lullabyte.bsky.social #ConfMusSleep #musicscience ‪‬
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🚨New Paper🚨 I spend a lot of time trying to control what people dream about. Usually, we are looking at dreams of recent memory. In this new paper, for the first time, we caused people to dream about a specific REMOTE memory from their distant past. #cogsci #psychscisky 🧠🟦
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Experimentally Inducing Dreams of Remote Emotional Memory
Abstract. People frequently dream of recent experiences, which may reflect the consolidation of memories in the sleeping brain. Many studies demonstrate th
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Monika Schönauer @mschoenauer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.” doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Dream start for database that aims to improve our understanding of conscious experience in sleep Free link to the paper in Nature Communication is rdcu.be/eAwni !
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A dream EEG and mentation database
Nature Communications - The authors present a multicenter database to investigate the neural correlates of dreaming, including physiological, behavioral and experiential data. This database could...
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper: “Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences” authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
What would you like to dream about? Here's a suggestion. Our new paper, co-first-authored by PhD students Daniel Morris and Blaise Elliott, describes a way to provoke lucid dreams about revisiting a profound Virtual-Reality experience - academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
article published in Neuroscience of Consciousness
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SPACE Lab @spacelabimt.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Save the date!! 🗓️ The 2nd edition of the Summer School on the Neuroscience of Dreaming 💤 will take place 4–8 May 2026 in Lucca, Italy, at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. 📍 The official website will be released soon: stay tuned for updates!
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sen...
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The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming
Training the mind to enter this rare state of conscious sleep may bring surprising benefits.
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