Dream Research Reading Club
A virtual journal club focused on recent dream-science publications.
What's the layout?
No presenters. I share the paper on screen and it's an open discussion. You can contribute or just listen.
Who's welcome?
Anyone. It's mostly graduate students and postdocs, plus or minus some undergraduates and faculty.
Past Meetings
2023/06/07 @ 2PM CDT: Demšar and Windt, MindRxiv, Studying dream experience through dream reports: Points of contact between dream research and first-person methods in consciousness science
2023/05/03 @ 2PM CDT: Picard-Deland et al., 2022, SLEEP, The memory sources of dreams: Serial awakenings across sleep stages and time of night
2023/04/05 @ 2PM CDT: Masset et al., 2022, SLEEP, The dynamics of emotional behaviors in rapid eye movement sleep
2023/03/01 @ 2PM CST: Simor et al., 2022, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming
2022/12/01 @ 3PM CST: Hoefer* et al., 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Personal dream informatics: A self-information systems model of dream engagement
2022/11/03 @ 3PM CDT: Horowitz* et al., 2023, Sci Rep, Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance
2022/10/06 @ 3PM CDT: Lemyre* et al., 2022, Dreaming, The feeling priming theory (FPT) of dreaming
2022/08/03 @ 10AM CDT: Rosen*, 2022, Int J Dream Res, Dreaming as a virtual reality delusion simulator: gaining empathy whilst we sleep
2022/06/01 @ 10AM CDT: Deperrois* et al., 2022, eLife, Learning cortical representations through perturbed and adversarial dreaming
2022/05/04 @ 10AM CDT: Šćepanović* et al., 2022, R Soc Open Sci, Epidemic dreams: dreaming about health during the COVID-19 pandemic
2022/04/06 @ 10AM CDT: Baird et al., 2022, SLEEP, Lucid dreaming occurs in activated rapid eye movement sleep, not a mixture of sleep and wakefulness
2022/03/02 @ 10AM CST: Schwartz et al., medRxiv, Combined treatment of nightmares with targeted memory reactivation and imagery rehearsal therapy: a randomized controlled trial (Now published in Curr Bio)
2021/12/01 @ 2PM CST: Aru et al., 2020, Neurosci Biobehav Rev, Apical drive – A cellular mechanism of dreaming?
2021/11/03 @ 2PM CDT: McNamara et al., 2021, Sleep Adv, A neurocomputational theory of nightmares: The role of formal properties of nightmare images
2021/10/06 @ 2PM CDT: Blagrove* & Lockheart, PsyArXiv, Dream-sharing and human self-domestication
2021/09/01 @ 2PM CT: Aamodt et al., 2021, Front Psychol, EEG signal diversity varies with sleep stage and aspects of dream experience
2021/08/04 @ 2PM CT: Tuominen et al., 2021, Br J Psychol, 'No Man is an Island': Effects of social seclusion on social dream content and REM sleep
2021/07/07 @ 2PM CT: Hoel, 2021, Patterns, The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (See companion spotlight article)
2021/05/03 @ 7PM CT: Wang et al., 2020, J Sleep Res, Integration of waking experience through dreams considered in light of individual differences in implicit learning ability
2021/04/05 @ 7PM CT: Raduga et al., 2020, Dreaming, Increasing perception vividness during lucid dreaming by spinning: A pilot study AND Raduga et al., 2020, Dreaming, Achieving pain during lucid dreaming and transferring it into wakefulness
2021/03/01 @ 7PM CT: Gross et al., 2021, Philos Trans R Soc B, Comparing the phenomenological qualities of stimulus-independent thought, stimulus-dependent thought and dreams using experience sampling
2021/01/04 @ 7PM CT: Gott et al., 2020, Philos Trans R Soc B, Virtual reality training of lucid dreaming
2020/12/03 @ 7PM CT: Scarpelli et al., 2020, Nat Sci Sleep, Electrophysiological correlates of dream recall during REM sleep: Evidence from multiple awakenings and within-subjects design
2020/11/05 @ 7PM CT: Bréchet et al., 2020, Sci Rep, EEG microstates of dreams
2020/10/08 @ 7PM CT: Ribeiro et al., 2020, Dreaming, A full night's sleep at home improves memory performance in an associative and relational learning task
2020/09/08 @ 8PM CT: Martin et al., 2020, PLOS One, Structural differences between REM and non-REM dream reports assessed by graph analysis
2020/08/03 @ 7PM CT: Noreika et al., 2020, Neurosci Conscious, The Dream Catcher experiment: blinded analyses failed to detect markers of dreaming consciousness in EEG spectral power
2020/07/11 @ 12PM CT: Spanò et al., 2020, eLife, Dreaming with hippocampal damage (See companion spotlight article)
2020/06/09 @ 7PM CT: Mota et al., medRxiv, Dreaming during Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dreams reveals mental suffering related to fear of contagion (Now published in PLOS One)
2020/05/07 @ 7PM CT: Lemyre et al., 2020, Imagin Cogn Pers, High-level control in lucid dreams
DRRC is undergoing renovations and out on temporary leave!!
We are merging with the new Quebec Sleep Research Network!
The Quebec Sleep Research Network has kindly offered to host DRRC, meaning they will handle all the logistics (email list, zoom links, etc.).
The format of DRRC will be unchanged (and in English).
We are currently building a Fall 2024 schedule. Check back here in September for an update, or sign up for this google groups listserv where I will post any updates.