IASD CE 2024

🏆 This session is worth 2 CE credits

📣 Talks

• Peters — Embodied induction: using muscle and vestibular stimulation for lucid dream induction

• Salvesen — Exploring the interplay between sensory stimulation and dream lucidity

• Esfahani — Lucid dream induction with wearable sleep tech

• Pavlou — Lucid dream induction with artificial intelligence

• Adelhöfer — Lucid dream induction with focused ultrasound

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Describe how electrical muscle and vestibular stimulation can induce lucid dreams.

2. Explain how sensory stimuli influence dream lucidity.

3. Evaluate different techniques for inducing lucid dreams at home and in labs.

🏆 This session is worth 1.5 CE credits

📣 Talks

• Hoss — Variation in Dream Metaphors in Relation to PTSD Recovery

• Wagener — The Embodied Cognition Theory of Dreaming and Metaphor Transformation in Posttraumatic Dreaming

• Bulkeley — Dreaming and Play: New Research on a Potential Function of Dreaming

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Describe the role of dream metaphors in PTSD recovery.

2. Explain how variations in dream content can reflect stages of PTSD recovery.

3. Identify methods used to analyze the presence of play in dreams.

🏆 This session is worth 1.5 CE credits

📣 Talks

• Ruby — Sensory and emotional similarities and differences between autobiographical and dream memories

• Bloxham — Dreaming and Memory Consolidation: Where is the link?

• Boudrias — Searching for emotional memories in written and visual dream reports

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Compare sensory and emotional differences between autobiographical and dream memories.

2. Understand the link between dreaming and memory consolidation.

3. Explore how emotional memories appear in written and visual dream reports.

🏆 This session is worth 1 CE credit

📣 Talks

• Dresler — The Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming: Past, Present, Future

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Summarize past research on the neuroscience of lucid dreaming.

2. Discuss how advances in wearable neurotechnology and AI can aid lucid dream research.

3. Identify the potential of large-scale collaborations and citizen neuroscience in studying lucid dreaming.

🏆 This session is worth 2 CE credits

📣 Talks

• Maranci — Epic dreaming

• Ricci— Brain Network Topology of Dreaming

• Wang — EEG microstates of lucid dreams

• Pereira — Neuroarchitectural mapping of dream traits

• Schoch — Dreaming and memory consolidation - a registered report

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Describe recent advancements in neuroscience methods for studying dreams.

2. Explain the brain network signatures and EEG microstates associated with dreaming and lucid dreams.

3. Identify the relationship between dreaming and neural architecture.

🏆 This session is worth 2 CE credits

📣 Talks

• Hoffman — Is Dream Text Length a Proxy for Dream Length?

• Balch — Longitudinal Home Dream Study With Portable EEG Headbands

• de la Chapelle — Dream Recall Frequency and Dream Content in Epilepsy: a prospective stereo-encephalography study

• Ruby — A prospective study of dreaming during mourning

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Evaluate if dream text length can serve as a proxy for dream length.

2. Analyze the relationship between daytime experiences and dream content using portable EEG headbands.

3. Identify how dream content and recall are influenced by epilepsy and mourning.

🏆 This session is worth 1 CE credit

📣 Talks

• Appel — Bringing the Benefits and Methods of Sleep and Dream Research to the Private End User

• Morris — What factors determine whether sounds incorporate into dreams? An overnight serial-awakening study

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Describe the development and future steps of an open-source platform for sleep and dream research.

2. Explain how researchers can make novel sleep and dreaming techniques accessible to the public.

3. Discuss the incorporation of sounds into dreams.

🏆 This session is worth 1.5 CE credits

📣 Talks

• Schredl — Recalled dreams are beneficial

• Valli — Simulation theories (TST and SST)

• Bulkeley — Dreaming as play

• Blagrove — Empathy theory of dreaming

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Describe the benefits of recalling and working with dreams.

2. Explain the evolutionary functions of dreaming according to simulation theories.

3. Discuss the parallels between dreaming and play behavior, and their potential functions.

🏆 This session is worth 1.5 CE credits

📣 Talks

• Blagrove — Lucid nightmare frequency correlates with GHQ psychopathology but not internal Locus of Control

• Demšar — A micro-phenomenological investigation of signal-verified lucid dream experiences

• Stumbrys — The luminous night of the soul: The relationship between lucid dreaming and spirituality

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Describe the relationship between lucid nightmare frequency and psychopathology.

2. Describe how micro-phenomenological methods can be applied to lucid dream research.

3. Discuss the connection between lucid dreaming and spirituality, and its potential as a spiritual practice.

🏆 This session is worth 1 CE credit

📣 Talks

• Wang — Pre-sleep depressive mood influences the nightmare incidence: a study over 28 consecutive days

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Describe the influence of pre-sleep depressive mood on nightmare incidence.

2. Explain the relationship between waking emotional states and dream experiences.

3. Examine how mood before sleep predicts nightmares over a 28-day period.

🏆 This session is worth 1.5 CE credits

📣 Talks

• Roklicer — The effects of dreams and N1 sleep on poetic and other creativity

• Zerr — Data visualization dashboard for effortless real-time sleep stage detection during sleep experiments

🧠 Learning objectives

1. Describe the impact of lucid dreaming and N1 sleep on poetic and creative writing.

2. Explain the techniques used in dreamwork to enhance creativity.

3. Discuss the use of a data visualization dashboard for real-time sleep stage detection in sleep experiments.

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