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Recordings
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Day
All
Day 1
Day 2
Opening Keynote
Using Sensory Stimulation to Enhance the Benefits of Sleeping and Dreaming
Ken Peller
Engineering Dreams Using Anesthesia
Pilleriin Sikka
Inducing Lucid Dreaming with Multisensory Stimulation in REM Sleep
Claudia Picard-Deland
Lucid Dreaming Research at the Large Scale
Martin Dresler
Translational Science and Applied Dream Engineering
Adam Horowitz
The Individual Determinants of Morning Dream Recall
Valentina Elce
Q&A – Advances in Dream Engineering
Advances in Dream Engineering panel Q&A
From Sleep Health to Dream Health: Reconceptualizing Dreams in the Context of Health Behavior
Michael Grandner
The Role of Dreaming in the Perception of Subjective Sleep Depth
Adriana Michalak
The Interplay Between Sleep, Addiction, and Society
Pouya Azar
Maladaptive Daydreaming Is Associated with Unusual Nocturnal Dreaming
Nirit Soffer Dudek
Neuroscience and Legal System
Judy Edersheim
Q&A – Dreams and Health
Rescripting Revisited: A Clinician's Perspective on Nightmare Treatment
Leslie Ellis
Narcolepsy-Related Nightmares: A Window into Interconnected REM Phenomena
Jennifer Mundt
Lucid Dreaming Workshop Reduces Nightmare Distress in Individuals with PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Study
Garret Yount
The Role of Dream Self-Efficacy within Trauma-Related Nightmares
Westley Youngren
Q&A – Nightmares
Tech Talks (Day 1)
Spiritual Dream Incubation: A Pilot Study
Michael Scullin
Democratizing Consciousness: Engaging the Dream World on Its Terms
Andrew Holecek
Eliciting Meaningful Encounters within Lucid Dreams
Michelle Carr
Sense of Agency, Control and Wellbeing in Dreams
Melanie Rosen
Dreaming Awake: A Framework for Waking Transformation Through Contemplative Sleep Practices
Gabriela Torres Platas
Dreaming and Technologies of the Sacred
Kelly Bulkeley
Q&A – Dreams and Human Flourishing
The Last Frontier of Surveillance: Algorithmic Synchronicity and Dreams of Capital
Dustin Marlan
Under the Dream: Somatic Cinema and the Future Stakes for Our Minds at Night
Saelyx Finna
The Role of the Artist in Unconscious Media
Jed DeMoss
Dream Machines
Carsten Holler
Dreaming as Ethical Decision-making
Suzanne Kite
The Dream Parliament: Dream Sharing as a Tool for Democratizing the Collective Imaginary
Matthew Spellberg
Q&A – Dream Engineering and Society
Smartbuds: A Platform for Closed-Loop Ear-EEG Dream Engineering
JB Berent
LuciCeption: Towards Understanding the Design of Lucid Dream Environment Control
Cosmos Wang
A Numadelic Aesthetic for the Design of Virtual Experiences
David Glowacki
Engineering Dream Yoga in Virtual Reality
Michael Sheehy
Remote Sleep Interventions To Get the Data Of Your Dreams
Nathan Whitmore
Beyond Sound and Light: Opportunities and Challenges for Interfacing with the Sleeping Mind
Abhi Jain
Traumschreiber
Kris Appel
Creating Collective Dreams: Inducing Shared Flow States through Social Biofeedback
Suzanne Dikker
AI for the Adaptive Night: Consumer Sleep Tech That Learns to Change Behavior
Elie Gottlieb
Decoding Sleep at Your Fingertips: The Dreame AI Haptic Ring, Redefining Proactive Sleep Management
Zhidong (Adong) Pan and Siyi (Vivian) Chen
Day
All
Day 1
Day 2
Opening Keynote
Using Sensory Stimulation to Enhance the Benefits of Sleeping and Dreaming
Ken Peller
Engineering Dreams Using Anesthesia
Pilleriin Sikka
Inducing Lucid Dreaming with Multisensory Stimulation in REM Sleep
Claudia Picard-Deland
Lucid Dreaming Research at the Large Scale
Martin Dresler
Translational Science and Applied Dream Engineering
Adam Horowitz
The Individual Determinants of Morning Dream Recall
Valentina Elce
Q&A – Advances in Dream Engineering
Advances in Dream Engineering panel Q&A
From Sleep Health to Dream Health: Reconceptualizing Dreams in the Context of Health Behavior
Michael Grandner
The Role of Dreaming in the Perception of Subjective Sleep Depth
Adriana Michalak
The Interplay Between Sleep, Addiction, and Society
Pouya Azar
Maladaptive Daydreaming Is Associated with Unusual Nocturnal Dreaming
Nirit Soffer Dudek
Neuroscience and Legal System
Judy Edersheim
Q&A – Dreams and Health
Rescripting Revisited: A Clinician's Perspective on Nightmare Treatment
Leslie Ellis
Narcolepsy-Related Nightmares: A Window into Interconnected REM Phenomena
Jennifer Mundt
Lucid Dreaming Workshop Reduces Nightmare Distress in Individuals with PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Study
Garret Yount
The Role of Dream Self-Efficacy within Trauma-Related Nightmares
Westley Youngren
Q&A – Nightmares
Tech Talks (Day 1)
Spiritual Dream Incubation: A Pilot Study
Michael Scullin
Democratizing Consciousness: Engaging the Dream World on Its Terms
Andrew Holecek
Eliciting Meaningful Encounters within Lucid Dreams
Michelle Carr
Sense of Agency, Control and Wellbeing in Dreams
Melanie Rosen
Dreaming Awake: A Framework for Waking Transformation Through Contemplative Sleep Practices
Gabriela Torres Platas
Dreaming and Technologies of the Sacred
Kelly Bulkeley
Q&A – Dreams and Human Flourishing
The Last Frontier of Surveillance: Algorithmic Synchronicity and Dreams of Capital
Dustin Marlan
Under the Dream: Somatic Cinema and the Future Stakes for Our Minds at Night
Saelyx Finna
The Role of the Artist in Unconscious Media
Jed DeMoss
Dream Machines
Carsten Holler
Dreaming as Ethical Decision-making
Suzanne Kite
The Dream Parliament: Dream Sharing as a Tool for Democratizing the Collective Imaginary
Matthew Spellberg
Q&A – Dream Engineering and Society
Smartbuds: A Platform for Closed-Loop Ear-EEG Dream Engineering
JB Berent
LuciCeption: Towards Understanding the Design of Lucid Dream Environment Control
Cosmos Wang
A Numadelic Aesthetic for the Design of Virtual Experiences
David Glowacki
Engineering Dream Yoga in Virtual Reality
Michael Sheehy
Remote Sleep Interventions To Get the Data Of Your Dreams
Nathan Whitmore
Beyond Sound and Light: Opportunities and Challenges for Interfacing with the Sleeping Mind
Abhi Jain
Traumschreiber
Kris Appel
Creating Collective Dreams: Inducing Shared Flow States through Social Biofeedback
Suzanne Dikker
AI for the Adaptive Night: Consumer Sleep Tech That Learns to Change Behavior
Elie Gottlieb
Decoding Sleep at Your Fingertips: The Dreame AI Haptic Ring, Redefining Proactive Sleep Management
Zhidong (Adong) Pan and Siyi (Vivian) Chen
Day
All
Day 1
Day 2
Opening Keynote
Using Sensory Stimulation to Enhance the Benefits of Sleeping and Dreaming
Ken Peller
Engineering Dreams Using Anesthesia
Pilleriin Sikka
Inducing Lucid Dreaming with Multisensory Stimulation in REM Sleep
Claudia Picard-Deland
Lucid Dreaming Research at the Large Scale
Martin Dresler
Translational Science and Applied Dream Engineering
Adam Horowitz
The Individual Determinants of Morning Dream Recall
Valentina Elce
Q&A – Advances in Dream Engineering
Advances in Dream Engineering panel Q&A
From Sleep Health to Dream Health: Reconceptualizing Dreams in the Context of Health Behavior
Michael Grandner
The Role of Dreaming in the Perception of Subjective Sleep Depth
Adriana Michalak
The Interplay Between Sleep, Addiction, and Society
Pouya Azar
Maladaptive Daydreaming Is Associated with Unusual Nocturnal Dreaming
Nirit Soffer Dudek
Neuroscience and Legal System
Judy Edersheim
Q&A – Dreams and Health
Rescripting Revisited: A Clinician's Perspective on Nightmare Treatment
Leslie Ellis
Narcolepsy-Related Nightmares: A Window into Interconnected REM Phenomena
Jennifer Mundt
Lucid Dreaming Workshop Reduces Nightmare Distress in Individuals with PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Study
Garret Yount
The Role of Dream Self-Efficacy within Trauma-Related Nightmares
Westley Youngren
Q&A – Nightmares
Tech Talks (Day 1)
Spiritual Dream Incubation: A Pilot Study
Michael Scullin
Democratizing Consciousness: Engaging the Dream World on Its Terms
Andrew Holecek
Eliciting Meaningful Encounters within Lucid Dreams
Michelle Carr
Sense of Agency, Control and Wellbeing in Dreams
Melanie Rosen
Dreaming Awake: A Framework for Waking Transformation Through Contemplative Sleep Practices
Gabriela Torres Platas
Dreaming and Technologies of the Sacred
Kelly Bulkeley
Q&A – Dreams and Human Flourishing
The Last Frontier of Surveillance: Algorithmic Synchronicity and Dreams of Capital
Dustin Marlan
Under the Dream: Somatic Cinema and the Future Stakes for Our Minds at Night
Saelyx Finna
The Role of the Artist in Unconscious Media
Jed DeMoss
Dream Machines
Carsten Holler
Dreaming as Ethical Decision-making
Suzanne Kite
The Dream Parliament: Dream Sharing as a Tool for Democratizing the Collective Imaginary
Matthew Spellberg
Q&A – Dream Engineering and Society
Smartbuds: A Platform for Closed-Loop Ear-EEG Dream Engineering
JB Berent
LuciCeption: Towards Understanding the Design of Lucid Dream Environment Control
Cosmos Wang
A Numadelic Aesthetic for the Design of Virtual Experiences
David Glowacki
Engineering Dream Yoga in Virtual Reality
Michael Sheehy
Remote Sleep Interventions To Get the Data Of Your Dreams
Nathan Whitmore
Beyond Sound and Light: Opportunities and Challenges for Interfacing with the Sleeping Mind
Abhi Jain
Traumschreiber
Kris Appel
Creating Collective Dreams: Inducing Shared Flow States through Social Biofeedback
Suzanne Dikker
AI for the Adaptive Night: Consumer Sleep Tech That Learns to Change Behavior
Elie Gottlieb
Decoding Sleep at Your Fingertips: The Dreame AI Haptic Ring, Redefining Proactive Sleep Management
Zhidong (Adong) Pan and Siyi (Vivian) Chen
Discover what your dreams could be made of
Get early access to the DUST app, plus lullabies, exclusive insomnia support courses and wind-down tools from world-class scientists and sleep researchers.
Discover what your dreams could be made of
Get early access to the DUST app, plus lullabies, exclusive insomnia support courses and wind-down tools from world-class scientists and sleep researchers.
Discover what your dreams could be made of
Get early access to the DUST app, plus lullabies, exclusive insomnia support courses and wind-down tools from world-class scientists and sleep researchers.