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Pouria Javaheri
Generative world models enable robotic agents to "dream" potential futures for planning. However, modeling rigid-body dynamics in high-dimensional compressed latent spaces (such as NVIDIA Cosmos) presents significant challenges. Standard deterministic approaches often suffer from conditional mean averaging (often visually mistaken for posterior collapse), resulting in blurry predictions, while...
Elizaveta Solomonova, Simon Dubé, Arnaud Samson-Richer et al.
Vipassana meditation is characterized by observing bodily sensations, developing emotional and attentional stability and promoting pro-social qualities. Whether these qualities are also reflected in dream content is not currently known. Evidence relating dream content with sleep-depending learning is mixed: some studies suggest that dreaming of a task is beneficial for improvement, while others...
Journal of Sleep Research October 27, 2026 Claire Friedrich, Tore Nielsen
Typical content themes in dreams still defy clear explanation. While a series of studies administering typical dream theme questionnaires mainly to college students point to a surprising consistency in the prevalence of such themes over gender, age, culture, and time, it is still unclear how generalizable such findings are to the larger population. We used a validated online questionnaire, the...
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry August 14, 2026 Zhiyu Cui, Linlin Z Fan
The association between sleep-related phenomena and psychosis has received increasing attention in recent years, as sleep disturbances (e.g., insomnia) have shown robust associations with psychotic symptoms. However, the role of other, more specific sleep processes in psychosis remains unclear, despite their potential importance as symptom-related correlates. Particularly, phenomena such as...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 4, 2026 preprint
There is no direct evidence for therapies specifically targeting vivid dreams from antidepressant use. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Imagery Rehearsal Therapy, and certain medications are viable options derived from broader contexts of nightmare treatment.
Sleep May 1, 2026 Holland Doise, A. Gonzalez Quesada, Garrett Baber et al.
Abstract Introduction Nightmares are associated with more severe posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The advent of large language models (LLM) offers unique advantages to efficiently code affective dream content over human methods, which can be resource intensive and prone to error. This study tested whether dream affect (DA), measured via self-report, human-rated narrative coding, and LLM...
Cell Reports April 7, 2026 Nicolas Decat, Arthur Le Coz, Jade Sénéchal et al.
A popular view holds that mental experiences uniquely differ between wakefulness and sleep, yet recent work suggests continuity across these stages. Here, we address this question by examining the wake-sleep transition, a window marked by rapid shifts in wake/sleep stages and mental experiences. We recorded electroencephalography (EEG) activity in 92 participants during two daytime resting...
arXiv (Cornell University) March 27, 2026 Remington Mallett preprint
All varieties of dreaming remain a mystery. Lucid dreams in particular, or those characterized by awareness of the dream, are notoriously difficult to study. Their scarce prevalence and resistance to deliberate induction make it difficult to obtain a sizeable corpus of lucid dream reports. The consequent lack of clarity around lucid dream phenomenology has left the many purported applications...
Institutional Repositories DataBase March 2, 2026 Hitoshi Okada
I investigated individual differences in the frequency of lucid dreams experienced by university students and related factors. In Study 1, approximately 700 university students were surveyed regarding lucid dreams, nightmares, the frequency of sensory experiences in dreams, vividness and control of imagery, fantasy proneness, and nightmare distress. Results indicated that the frequency of lucid...
University Library Heidelberg January 26, 2026 Michael Schredl, Anja S. Göritz
The continuity hypothesis of dreaming states that dreams reflect waking life, however, research has also shown that dreams can affect waking life, e.g., creativity, daytime mood. So far, factors that are associated with the effect of dreams on waking life have been rarely studied. Overall, 2492 persons (1437 woman, 1055 men) with a mean age of 47.75 ± 14.41 years participated in the study. The...