Opinion | The Mind-Altering Power of Lucid Dreaming

We have a lot to say about dreaming too: pallerlab.psych.northwestern.edu/pubs.html

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

I’d like to form a dream team to study contemplative dreaming (lucid dreaming and dream control for transformative insight) - who’s in?

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong CHICAGO—Concluding that the costs of keeping such a device in the bedroom far exceeded the benefits, a study released Monday by the University of Chicago’s sleep lab found a strong link between poor s...

Here’s some research just like what we do in my lab at Northwestern, almost theonion.com/poor-sleep-l...

I'm excited to share our preprint: "Selfing without a self: The missing dimension of identification in computational accounts of selfhood"

The puzzle:

How can meditators claim persistent selfless experience without dysfunction when computational accounts claim it's maladaptive? 🧵

t.ly/vDv4n

Functional Neuroimaging of Cortical Dysfunction in Alcoholic Korsakoff's Syndrome Abstract. Many neuropsychological investigations of human memory have focused on the amnesic deficits of alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome. Structural neuroimaging suggests that the syndrome results from...

Here's an alternative view based on functional neuroimaging in Korsakoff's syndrome direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Spatial and semantic memory reorganize a hippocampal long-axis gradient | PNAS The hippocampus supports episodic memory by binding spatial and semantic information, yet how this information is simultaneously organized along it...

My first paper with @jkragel.bsky.social and Joel Voss came out yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! It’s real! :D

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Patricia Churchland's advice to @felipedebrigard.bsky.social

www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com#/felipe-de-b...

Inside the Sleeping Mind: Memory, Dream Yoga, & the Neuroscience of Sleep with Ken Paller, PhD YouTube video by Experiential Dreamwork

Saturday was a good day for a fun chat about dreams and stuff with Katherine Bell on her podcast "the Dream Journal" (on ksqd.org/the-dream-jo...) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4H...

Check out this wonderful and amazing set of brief lectures from David Linden, perspectives from biological science on a bunch of fascinating topics

Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.

SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates:

www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

💙 Bryan Chaney passed away at 25 to a sleep apnea–related cardiac event. His family created the Bryan Louis Chaney Memorial Fund to raise awareness and emphasize consistent treatment. Project Sleep is grateful to be a beneficiary of this meaningful effort.

➡️ Learn more: https://ow.ly/Qn9I50YBgXb

Benefits of mindfulness meditation go far beyond relaxation – here’s what it is and how to practice it Facing your own thoughts and sensations, without trying to suppress them, is harder than it may seem. But learning to do it can boost your mental health.

theconversation.com/benefits-of-...

Isrw group photo

Still pumped up from yesterday's international sleep replay workshop! Provocative talks, engaging discussion groups & enthusiastic engagement by all attendees from undergrads to full professors. Stay tuned for info on the next one. And now, on to @cnsmtg.bsky.social. Check out our lab's posters!

Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep Abstract. Dreams have arguably been a source of creative insight for millennia. The specific assertion that dreams during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep pr

🚨 New article in #NCONSC

Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

@paller.bsky.social

#consciousness
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Can Dreams Help You Solve Problems? Researchers wonder whether the dreaming state might be doing more than you realize.

Nice coverage of the recent Neuroscience-of-Consciousness article from the PhD dissertation of @karenkonkoly.bsky.social here in TIME magazine, with a photo showing how dreams help you put all the puzzle pieces of your life together
time.com/7381398/can-...

Sure - send me an email message

Why your most creative ideas may come after a night of sleep Got a problem? Science says you should sleep on it.

@carolynyjohnson.bsky.social did an excellent job today of summarizing the research and key issues surrounding the idea of "sleeping on it" (Not A Myth) — Thank You Carolyn!
wapo.st/4rqb1LF

Cool results from @tschreiner.bsky.social and colleagues: memory reactivation and retrieval found to vary with phase of respiration

How Scientists Hacked People’s Dreams to Help Them Solve Real-Life Puzzles A new study in Neuroscience of Consciousness tested whether researchers could steer dream content during REM sleep using audio cues.

More coverage of Karen's @karenkonkoly.bsky.social study www.vice.com/en/article/h...

Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality Experiments involving playing music during sleep have revealed a type of dream engineering that doubled subjects' problem-solving abilities.

Nice coverage of present and future hopes for research using dream engineering — from the PhD dissertation work of Karen Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social and her new publication in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social — here at The Debrief thedebrief.org/did-scientis...

Harnessing dreams to solve puzzles is no fantasy

Karen Konkoly's @karenkonkoly.bsky.social latest dream research on the front page of The Times, with the heading: Harnessing dreams to solve puzzles is no fantasy

Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep Abstract. Dreams have arguably been a source of creative insight for millennia. The specific assertion that dreams during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep pr

New publication out today from the amazing PhD dissertation of Karen Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social in Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social : Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Come to the International Sleep Replay Workshop in Vancouver on March 6th — registration and poster submission closes Feb 15 isrw.bio.uci.edu
The workshop will include symposia, short talks, posters, discussion groups, and many opportunities to interact - Memory - Sleep - Dreaming - and more

This applies to everyone

#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop

Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F

The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Registration for this satellite event is separate to CNS 2026. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Deadline, Feb 15th

I am so proud to be part of a community who does not rest in this fight for justice. We are a city that resists come rain or come shine.

Guest Essay: ICE committed murder in Minneapolis - where do we go from here? - Evanston RoundTable I first started to write this piece on the evening of January 7th. I saw at around 11 a.m. that morning that a woman in Minnesota had been shot by ICE. At

Guest Essay: ICE committed murder in Minneapolis - where do we go from here? evanstonroundtable.com/2026/01/18/g...

This is actually extremely troubling because it means that every ICE employee has a 50K incentive to help ensure that Trump (or JD) is re-elected.