SG - Dream Engineering
In short
Lecture- 22 September
- 20:00h
- Impulse Wageningen Campus
- Speaker: Martin Dresler
Dreaming
Since time immemorial, dreaming has been a deeply personal, mysterious and even sacred or magical realm. What we know about dreaming and how we know it are at the centre of this series. How have ancient contemplative dreaming cultures contributed to what we know today about dreaming? What is actually known and still unknown about the brain during sleep? And just where do reality and fantasy meet when it comes to sleep state steering, the mechanics of your wildest nighttime mind wanderings, dream hacking and even dream engineering?
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Dream engineering
When it comes to intervening in sleep-wake cycles and mind wanderings, is a - don’t try this at home – warning necessary? What is the future of dream engineering? And what does this mean for the utmost personal spaces of being?
Dream-hacking science is not the sci-fi of the future. It is the here and now. And Dr. Martin Dresler is at the forefront of applied research on it. He shares with us his insights into the potential of lucid dreaming. What explains the conjuring of images which float one away to the wildest adventures during sleep? What are the mechanics driving vivid dreams and our sleep state steering capabilities? When it comes to intervening in sleep-wake cycles and mind wanderings, is a - don’t try this at home – warning necessary? The edgy enchantment of cracking the code of sleep-time thoughts entails consideration of questions which transgress the most personal and even sacred spaces of intimacy. Ponder these together as we explore the science of dream hacking and the future of dream engineering.
Photo by: Eric Münch
Martin Dresler
Martin Dresler has 20 years of sleep research experience, with a particular interest in the cognitive aspects of sleep such as dreaming, and in methods how to record and modulate sleep. He leads the Donders Sleep & Memory Lab, and is Associate Professor at Radboud University Medical Center. He received training in Biological Psychology, Philosophy and Mathematics at Bochum University, did his PhD at Marburg University and the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, and performed postdoctoral research in Oxford and Stanford.
Date
20:00 - 22:00