Martin Dresler
@dresler.bsky.social
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
· Oct 20
Neuroscience of Dreaming
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
Come work with us - as the scientific director of the >1000 neuroscientists at the Donders Institute:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Scientific Director Donders Institute | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Scientific Director Donders Institute at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Come work with us - as the scientific director of the >1000 neuroscientists at the Donders Institute:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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...
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...
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...
www.sciencefocus.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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...
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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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
z9j3c1atbx.cognition.run
#Musicscience
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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
z9j3c1atbx.cognition.run
#Musicscience
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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
Application procedure – FKNE
rb.gy
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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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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
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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November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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!
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚨🧠🚨 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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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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October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...
rr.peercommunityin.org/about/recomm...
Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Neuroscience of Dreaming
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Neuroscience of Dreaming
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
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Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
We are hiring! — Semantic memory Lab
www.genzellab.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
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🎶🛏️ 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
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
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🎶🛏️ 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
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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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
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
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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
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
Sleep and dreams as reflected by science fiction literature and films - anything to learn from?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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
September 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Sleep and dreams as reflected by science fiction literature and films - anything to learn from?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🧠 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!
👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!
September 14, 2025 at 6:20 AM
🧠 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!
👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!
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...
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...
September 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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...
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...
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...
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
September 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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...
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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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
September 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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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🧠🧪 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
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
September 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🧠🧪 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
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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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
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
September 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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
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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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 🧠🟦
🚨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 🧠🟦
August 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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 🧠🟦
🚨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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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
@lullabyte.bsky.social #ConfMusSleep #musicscience
August 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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
@lullabyte.bsky.social #ConfMusSleep #musicscience
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🚨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
🧠🟦
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
academic.oup.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🚨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
🧠🟦
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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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...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
August 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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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 !
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
August 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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 !
Free link to the paper in Nature Communication is rdcu.be/eAwni !
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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...
“Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
August 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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...
“Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...