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Martin Dresler

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PI @ Donders Sleep & Memory Lab, studying functions of sleep. Also brain hacks incl. lucid dreaming, polyphasic sleep, mnemonics. http://dreslerlab.org

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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · May 12

We do have funding available for some postdoc years - combined with a Marie Curie scholarship, this could make a longer-term postdoc position.

Either way, if you are interested in computational / large-scale sleep EEG and citizen neuroscience infrastructure for sleep/dream research: get in touch!

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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Elena Krugliakova @elenakru.bsky.social · 17d

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

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?

www.nemokennislink.nl

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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 20d

Sleep and dreams as reflected by science fiction literature and films - anything to learn from?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<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...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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SPACE Lab @spacelabimt.bsky.social · 28d

🧠 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 · 28d

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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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · Sep 10

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...

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 ...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Sep 7

🧠🧪 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

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

academic.oup.com

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Mariana Pereira @marianapereira.bsky.social · Sep 3

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 · Aug 27

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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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · Aug 25

‪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 · Aug 22

🚨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
🧠🟦

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 · Aug 15

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 · Aug 14

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 !

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...

rdcu.be

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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · Aug 12

->

cimh-clinical-psychology.github.io/ManyBeds/ana...

Analysis | ManyBeds

ManyBeds: Evaluating reproducibility of auditory targeted memory reactivation.

cimh-clinical-psychology.github.io

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 6

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 · Aug 6

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 · Aug 1

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 · Jul 26

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming

www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sen...

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming

Training the mind to enter this rare state of conscious sleep may bring surprising benefits.

www.brainfacts.org

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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are excited to announce the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep @musicinthebrain.bsky.social, Aarhus, DK, in collaboration with RAMA and @lullabyte.bsky.social.
Dates: 6-8 May 2026. #musicscience
Please mark your calendars and share the post.
musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa...

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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · Jul 1

"Thank you" for reaching out.

"I hope you're having a great start to the week!"

Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · Jun 24

Predatory funding?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Lullabyte @lullabyte.bsky.social · Jun 19

Since Lullabyte began, we’ve been collaborating on a project blending Sleep, Music & Data Science. We're excited to share Somnosphere at the Long Night of Sciences in Berlin on June 28th, an immersive AV experience exploring how can we share the private nature of sleep. tinyurl.com/LNDWLullabyte

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Jun 19

We need your help!!! 🧠🧪💤

If you are human, you fall asleep at least once a day! What happens in your mind then?

Scientists know actually very little about this private moment.

We propose a 20-min survey to get as much data as possible!

Here is the link:
redcap.link/DriftingMinds

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Lisa Genzel (she/her) @lgenzel.bsky.social · Jun 18

We are hiring! 2 PhD position available on semi-naturalistic behavioral phenotyping and housing projects to increase translation. www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring

We are hiring! — Semantic memory Lab

www.genzellab.com

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