QS Brussels meetup January 2014 - Lucid Dreaming and Dream Tracking

Dream trackingand lucid dream training

Dream trackingand lucid dream training

QS Brussels Meetup January 2014

Laurens Van Keer

Lucid Dreaming

Dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming

Why dreams?

What are dreams?

Random by-productor

Selective simulation?

An evolutionary hypothesis

for the function of dreams

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Lucid dreams

to enhance

psychological

development

✓Nightmare treatment

✓Mental rehearsal

✓Creative problem-solving

Relation to sleep tracking

Back to basicsRetrospecti

vememory

Prospectivememory

Testing dream journals

Dream journalling

silver bullet?

Research participants wanted!

www.dreamresearch.be

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