Martin Dresler

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...

More info & sign-up: bit.ly/lucidathome (we close soon, so being fast is recommended!) Sleep & Memory lab Nijmegen: @dresler.bsky.social

We're recruiting for our lucid dream induction study using a fully automated at-home set-up 💤 Already many people from Nijmegen and far beyond have joined. Now we are filling up our last spots... Sign-up: www.bit.ly/lucidathome Sharing appreciated! ▶️ @dresler.bsky.social @paulzerr.bsky.social

Neurotech.eu winter school on smart sleep: exploring the future of sleep measurements. neurotecheu.i-med.ac.at/neurotecheu-...

Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology or Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at Radboud University: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

End of August the University of Zurich is holding another Scientifica with the topic "Wie wir wissen schaffen". I am holding a presentation on how we study dreams, what we dream and why on Saturday 29. August at 4 pm. If you are interested, feel free to drop by! scientifica.ch/event/how-do...

Are you a sleep researcher? Then we're interested in your opinion on preregistrations! Help advance the field by filling out this short (5-minute) survey redcap.link/1zg4tezm (Any career stage, doesn't matter if you've preregistered before or not, we need you. Please share!)

Night-to-night sleep EEG variability over one year: We found that intra-individual night-to-night variation was low for spectral power, sleep duration, N2 and REM sleep; medium for N3 and macrostructure; and high for sleep cycle duration, wake and N1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cheating Hypnos: Can polyphasic sleep schedules reduce the need for sleep? academic.oup.com/sleep/advanc...

Introducing one of the workshops at #ConfMusSleep: SLUMBER: A Framework for Home-Based Sleep Ex-periments Offering Dynamic Delivery of Auditory Stimuli. Led by Ali Saberi (RadboudUMC, NL), Samuel Morgan (Uni Stuttgart, DE), Tinke van Buijtene (UPF, ES). More info: confmussleep.au.dk #musicscience

👋 Hello World! EEG101 is live! 🚀 🤝Join our global community for open, rigorous EEG science, academia & industry welcome! 🗓️ June 11–13, 2026: EEG101 Meeting at OHBM Brainhack, Bordeaux. 📢 Training & mobility funding coming soon! 🌐 www.eeg101.eu #EEG101 #OpenScience #Neuroscience #OHBM #Brainhack

Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor Sessions on: memory processes sleep & replay analysis and stimulation techniques www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab... plz rp

Job alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)

The registration for the 1st Conference on Music and Sleep is now open! 🎶💤 Early bird registration open until the 15/03 📆 Follow the link for info on fees and deadlines! #confmussleep #musicscience

⏳ 1 week left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, Lucca 🇮🇹)! A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking. 👉 Info: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

😴 Our new review on non-invasive sleep stimulation in Physiological Reviews! Huge thanks to my shared first co-author Friederike Breuer, to Til Ole Bergmann & Martin Dresler for their supervision, and to all co-authors for an inspiring collaboration ✨ #SleepResearch #Donders

Apply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠 #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe

"I learned how to control my dreams to better my mental health. Here’s how." www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/ho...

Why the memory palace is mightier than the memory pharmacy: Mnemonic strategies considerably outperform pharmacological strategies of cognitive enhancement by providing cognitive tools that change the affordances of the learning task. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧠💤 #Sleep is crucial for the production of #antibodies, the #clearing of harmful substances from the brain, and the release of #growthhormone. 👶🧒 Some recent examples of sleep benefits according to @dresler.bsky.social. Read the full article here: 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

⏳ One month left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)! 👉 Register by January 15: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it #dreamresearch #sleepresearch #sleepscience #neuroscience

Come work with us - as the scientific director of the >1000 neuroscientists at the Donders Institute: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

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

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

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

🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.

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...

Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

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

Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring

🎶🛏️ 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

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

Sleep and dreams as reflected by science fiction literature and films - anything to learn from? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧠 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!

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...

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...

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

🧠🧪 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

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

‪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 ‪‬

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...

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 !