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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · 12d

It's also misleading, as it's the most googled word + dream, definitely unlikely to actually reflect the most common dreams.

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

Whoops, the poster session starts at 6.30 :).

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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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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john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to present our new work reading minds!

Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 28

New opinion piece!

@amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

authors.elsevier.com

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Omer Sharon @omersharon.bsky.social · Aug 23

Fresh results now in bioRxiv! 🎉 We know about the function of NREM sleep for overnight memory consolidation. But what about REM sleep? We found that in aging, slow delta waves can intrude phasic REM periods, and this, is associated with worse overnight consolidation 🧠 (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

REM Sleep Misfires: Intruding Delta Waves Forecast Tau, Amyloid, and Forgetting in Aging

Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep degrades with age, and more severely in Alzheimer's disease (AD). REM sleep comprises about twenty percent of adult sleep, alternates between phasic and tonic periods, a...

doi.org

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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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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Aug 14

💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤

After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com

**A dream EEG and mentation database**
rdcu.be/eAwni

Illustration from Ana Yael
https://www.anayael.com/

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · Aug 15

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting.

Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social

Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting

The retention and use of long-term memories is crucial for adaptive behavior. While stable memories help organisms anticipate outcomes, they may become maladaptive if not updated to reflect new condit...

www.cell.com

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Rubén Herzog @rherzoga.bsky.social · Aug 14

📜[PUBLICATION ALERT]📜

I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep.

In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social

#sleep
#dreams
#EEG

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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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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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks so much, I know people are split on these titles, but it's fun to come up with them haha :).

Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · Aug 5

I'm happy to start my @snf-fns.ch Return Grant at the Kispi Zürich with Flavia Wehrle, where we are following up the cohort from my PhD (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) to see how early sleep and gut microbiota predict outcomes at school age. #sleeppeeps

From Alpha Diversity to Zzz: Interactions among sleep, the brain, and gut microbiota in the first year of life

Sleep disorders have been linked to alterations of gut microbiota composition in adult humans and animal models, but it is unclear how this link devel…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 5

***🚨 New Paper 🚨***

Both #sleep and eyes-closed waking rest improve memory. But sleep also increases FALSE recall in some paradigms.

Q: Does eyes-closed rest similarly increase false recall?

A: No.

Free access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYgb3qNaA...

#sleeppeeps #psychscisky 🧠🟦

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Jul 30

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health

Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...

www.nature.com

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Lorenzo Bertolini @lorenzoscottb.bsky.social · Jul 23

👋 #sleeppeeps In this new work, we show how multiple LLMs appear to easily process #dreams, and reflect previously observed differences in reports (e.g., male-female, blind-sighted).

We also argue for caution linking dreams and bizarreness when using #LLMs

www.frontiersin.org/journals/sle...

Frontiers | Dreams are more “predictable” than you think

IntroductionA growing body of work has used machine learning and AI tools to analyse dream reports, and compare them to other textual content. Since these to...

www.frontiersin.org

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Jun 25

In this study, led by BlueSky-less superstar undergrad Andrew Lazarus, we set out to ask whether longer reactivation events during sleep lead to more memory benefits. Results suggest this is not the case, but there are some disclaimers. Read all about it! #sleep
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Manipulating memory processing during sleep to explore the critical duration of reactivation events

Newly encoded memories are reactivated and consolidated during sleep. However, how the reactivation of a specific memory unfolds over time is poorly u…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Jun 21

It's the weekend! Plenty of time to answer our less-than-20-minutes survey on your experiences when you fall asleep!
🧠🧪💤

We really want to know what *you* experience.
But we can't know if you don't tell us! 😀

The link:
redcap.link/DriftingMinds

Thank you for participating or sharing!

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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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Omer Sharon @omersharon.bsky.social · Jun 17

"SO-spindle coupling was linked to elevated activation in both the thalamus and hippocampus, alongside increased functional connectivity from the hippocampus to the thalamus and from the thalamus to the medial prefrontal cortex"
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Human Brain-Wide Activation of Sleep Rhythms

doi.org

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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · Jun 17

Next, we have DreamRater github.com/SarahSchoch/..., a flexible tool for manual rating of dream content. You can upload your own scales (radio or numerical scales) and rate dreams whole or in parts. Here's a video explainer: tinyurl.com/DreamRater #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social

DreamRater_Explained.mov

tinyurl.com

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · Jun 11

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳

After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org
#PsychSciSky #scipub

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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · Jun 10

I made some tools for our (MANY!) dream reports. I am making them openly available for others to use! First DreamProcessor github.com/SarahSchoch/..., a simple tool to preprocess dream reports (clean, anonymize, split) that integrates semiautomatic approaches. #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social

GitHub - SarahSchoch/DreamProcessor: A tool to process dream reports before rating.

A tool to process dream reports before rating. Contribute to SarahSchoch/DreamProcessor development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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