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Worst live blogger ever

Posted by Ryan Hurd on June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments

The annual conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams starts today in Chicago, IL. I’ll be there, to give my lucid nightmares talk as well as chair the cultural and anthropological sessions.
Maybe I’ll do some live bloggin’ during the event. But let’s face it, I always say that at the beginning of [...]

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REM Sleep Improves Creativity: New Research Findings

Posted by Ryan Hurd on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

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New Survey for Finding the Meaning of Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 16, 2009 | 2 Comments

Here’s another opportunity to participate in dream research.
Carey Morewedge of Carnegie Mellon University and Michael Norton of Harvard are conducting a short survey on dreams and memory. I took it in less than 10 minutes. The results will be reported in the New York Times, thanks to dream-enthusiast and journalist John Tierney.
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Lucid Dreamers Wanted for Study on Hypnopompic Hallucinations

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 26, 2009 | 94 Comments

Theoretical Physicist Karl Simanonok, PhD is looking for lucid dreamers to join his study on “auditory binding,” which is the hypothetical moment when consciousness “sticks to” the auditory system while waking up out of sleep.
Specifically, potential co-researchers in this study are asked to consciously experience their hypnopompic imagery when moving out of a dream [...]

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Dreaming in Black and White

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 20, 2008 | 24 Comments

Do we usually dream in black & white” Or is the color in our remembered dreams just hard to remember? This has been a perplexing question for dream scientists for half a century, with most studies not able to report a firm conclusion.

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Dreams Influenced by Smell

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 22, 2008 | 7 Comments

Here’s a great piece of dream research that just hit the wires:
In a study of 15 healthy German women, smells in the dreamer’s environment effected their dream content. Specifically, the smells (rotten eggs for some, and roses for the luckier subjects) boosted the negative or positive emotions of dreams.

Tags:dream aromatherapy, dream smells

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