Years in the making, and it’s finally out! Our paper on how personality, sleep, and waking experiences shape dream content is now published in @commspsychol.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Individual traits and experiences predict the content of dreams - Communications Psychology

Individual traits and experiences jointly shape dream content. By analyzing the semantic structure of thousands of reports, we reveal systematic patterns showing how dreams reflect personality, sleep ...

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New article with @oudietted.bsky.social and the @dreamteamicm.bsky.social Dream-like mental states can occur during wakefulness Published now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports... Congrats to Nicolas Decat!

Exciting new PhD opportunity (funded) in the lab of @larsmuckli.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

FULLY FUNDED PhD - Ultra-high field brain imaging of imagery and aphantasia at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - FULLY FUNDED PhD - Ultra-high field brain imaging of imagery and aphantasia at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🚨 New paper from our lab: "Immersive NREM2 dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." More on the determinants of dream content coming soon.

SPACE Lab@spacelabimt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧠💤 New paper out in @plosbiology.org! Together with Adriana Michalak (@dr-adri.bsky.social), Davide Marzoli, Francesco Pietrogiacomi et al., we show that dreaming, especially immersive dreaming, plays a key role in how deep sleep feels. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... @erc.europa.eu #ERC-StG #sleep

New review from the Lab: Bontempi et al., "The Effects of RBD Medications on Dream Content: A Critical Review of Evidence" 💊 "Available evidence offers only limited support for clonazepam, melatonin, and pramipexole in reducing disturbing dream content" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Effects of RBD Medications on Dream Content: A Critical Review of Evidence

REM sleep behavior disorder, often an early marker of α-synucleinopathies, is characterized by the loss of REM-related muscle atonia and the occurrenc…

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Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

🚨 New preprint 🚨 "Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." We analyzed 1,024 awakenings collected across 196 nights with high-density EEG (256 ch.) to explore the relationship between dreaming and subjective sleep depth. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure

Perceived sleep depth is a key determinant of subjective sleep quality, traditionally thought to reflect unconsciousness and reduced cortical activation. Here, we combined high-density EEG with a seri...

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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

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

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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!

🔔New preprint out! We reviewed how RBD medications affect dream content. Take home message: the need for standardization and methodological rigor in future studies. “The effects of RBD Medications on Dream Content: A Critical Review of Evidence” is now available here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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...

💤🧠🧪 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

The preprint of our dear “the Semantics of Dreams” is out!

Giulio Bernardi@giuliobernardi.bsky.social · last yr.

📄 New preprint! 🎊 Elce et al., "The semantics of dreams": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We show that dream content is shaped by both wakefulness experiences and stable individual psychological/cognitive traits. 🌕

📢 The PhD call for "Mind, Brain, and Human Thought" (track: "Experimental Psychology and Psychophysiology") at the IMT School, Lucca is now open! Join us in the Sleep, Plasticity, and Conscious Experience (SPACE) Lab to explore the science of sleep and dreaming. 🧠💤 Apply here 👉 mbht.imtlucca.it

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PhD Program in Mind, Brain, and Human Thought (MBHT)

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Already enjoyed the preprint very much! Highly recommended!

Thomas Andrillon@thomasandrillon.bsky.social · last yr.

With immense pleasure, here is our #TICS opinion paper on "mind blanking"! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social **Where is my mind?** A neurocognitive investigation of mind blanking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With Jenny Windt, @antoinelutz.bsky.social and @ademertzi.bsky.social

This study by Wulff & Mata uses language models to create semantic embeddings of psychometric items and scales, aiding in predicting empirical relations and clarifying psychological taxonomies. https://www.nature.c...

Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement - Nature Human Behaviour

Taxonomic incommensurability highlights the difficulty of comparing scientific theories due to differing concepts and methods.

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Thanks to @nature.com for featuring Stand Up for Science! ☀️🧬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back

Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.

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Los nazis se han cargado PubMed.

Joyce Browne@joycebrowne.bsky.social · last yr.

Another dystopian situation in our biomedical knowledge production system: #PubMed, the database all scientists and students use is down. This harms science, health care, patients, communities, and policy making: evidence-based medicine requires findability of scientific articles.

Does sleep affect the relationship between representations formed in different memory systems? Check out our new preprint on how sleep resolves the competition between explicit and implicit memory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sleep Resolves Competition Between Explicit and Implicit Memory Systems

Sleep supports stabilization of explicit, declarative memory and benefits implicit, procedural memory. In addition, sleep may change the quality of memory representations. Explicit and implicit learni...

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Incorporation of complex narratives into dreaming https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.637675v1

The likelihood to recall a dream in the morning and the ability to remember its content are modulated by a combination of stable individual traits and dynamic night-by-night and seasonal change, according to a study in Communications Psychology. https://go.nature.com/3EKJaCd 🧪

Beyond happy and proud to share our new study about the individual determinants of morning dream recall in the general Italian population, just published on @commspsychol.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The individual determinants of morning dream recall - Communications Psychology

The likelihood to recall in the morning that one had a dream and the ability to remember its content are modulated by a combination of stable individual traits and dynamic night-by-night and seasonal ...

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The Influence of Intentions on Dream Content academic.oup.com/sleepadvance... Interesting application of LLMs for the analysis of dream content and task incorporation...

The Influence of Intentions on Dream Content

AbstractStudy Objectives. The

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Very very proud of Giorgia Bontempi who’s presenting her first poster, titled “Dream Recall and Content in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep Behaviour Disorder”, at the XXXIV conference of the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine (AIMS) in Pisa!

A very much needed multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Because words matter!

Jamie Reilly 🦜@reilly-coglab.com · 2y ago

THE BIG ONE! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Last chance to register and submit your project proposal for the #BrainHackLucca2024! Join us December 1-5 at @IMTLucca! Link to the official website: brainhacklucca.github.io