bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
May 22, 2026
Somayeh Ataei, Mahdad Jafarzade Esfahani, Nikolai Axmacher et al.
preprint
Abstract Dream recall varies substantially both between individuals and from night to night within the same individual. Although nocturnal awakenings are thought to facilitate the encoding and later retrieval of dream experiences, it remains unclear whether dream recall is shaped primarily by awakening frequency or by more specific awakening characteristics, including duration, sleep stage, and...
Nature Communications
August 13, 2025
William Wong, Rubén Herzog, Kátia Cristine Andrade et al.
10 citations
Magneto/electroencephalography (M/EEG) studies of dreaming are an essential paradigm in the investigation of neurocognitive processes of human consciousness during sleep, but they are limited by the number of observations that can be collected per study. Dream research also involves substantial methodological and conceptual variability, which poses problems for the integration of results. To...
bioRxiv
June 27, 2024
Claudia Picard-Deland, Mahdad Jafarzadeh Esfahani, Leila Anna Christina Salvesen et al.
preprint
Lucid dreaming occurs when one is aware of dreaming while asleep. While lucid dreaming can occur spontaneously, it remains rare. This multi-center study (Netherlands, Italy, Canada) tested a combined induction approach integrating senses-initiated lucid dreaming (SSILD) with targeted lucidity reactivation in a large sample of participants with varying lucid dreaming experience. Sixty...
March 6, 2023
Claudia Picard-Deland, Giulio Bernardi, Lisa Genzel et al.
2 citations
preprint
Newly encoded memory traces are spontaneously reactivated during sleep. Since their discovery in the 1990s, these memory reactivations have been discussed as a potential neural basis for dream experiences. New results from animal and human research, as well as the rapidly growing field of sleep and dream engineering, provide essential insights into this question, revealing both strong parallels...
Journal of Sleep Research
February 1, 2019
Sarah F. Schoch, Maren J. Cordi, Michael Schredl et al.
Collecting dream reports typically requires waking subjects up from their sleep-a method that has been used to study the relationship between dreams and memory consolidation. However, it is unclear whether these awakenings influence sleep-associated memory consolidation processes. Furthermore, it is unclear how the incorporation of the learning task into dreams is related to memory...