#8 How can we get rid of our nightmares? Brain-to-brain with Katharina Lüth.

Do you remember what you’ve been dreaming last night? At least a tiny bit of it? Even if some people cannot remember, most of us dream several different dreams each night. Often, those dreams are connected to what has happened during our wake life. Some of us might frequently experience rather stressful dreams, which cause us to wake up shaking or ruffled. And for some, those nightmares can be something that tremendously impacts their daily life and might make them afraid of going to bed. Katharina Lüth is a PhD student at the institute of Cognitive Science and is researching Sleep & Dreams. She is in particular interested in nightmares and helping people to deal with bad dreams. Listen to this episode to learn why we dream in the first place, what lucid dreaming is and whether animals dream too!

Mentioned papers:

Appel, K., Füllhase, S., Kern, S., Kleinschmidt, A., Laukemper, A., Lüth, K., … & Vogelsang, L. (2020). Inducing signal-verified lucid dreams in 40% of untrained novice lucid dreamers within two nights in a sleep laboratory setting. Consciousness and Cognition, 83, 102960.

Gupta, A. S., Van Der Meer, M. A., Touretzky, D. S., & Redish, A. D. (2010). Hippocampal replay is not a simple function of experience. Neuron, 65(5), 695-705.

(German only:)

https://www.dgsm.de/fileadmin/dgsm/Arbeitsgruppen/traum/Alptraeume_Was_kann_ich_dagegen_tun.pdf

Credits:

Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder