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Antonio Zadra
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Couverture du livre "The Dream Keepers"

“A brilliant and mind-bending debut that interweaves both the science and the mythology of dreams in a tale that is inventive, original, and utterly spellbinding. The Dreamkeepers will change how you view your own nocturnal dreams, and the figures that inhabit them.”

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Couverture du livre "When Brains Dream"

"A comprehensive, eye-opening exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them."

Our research focuses on the scientific study of dreams
- including everyday dreams, nightmares and lucid dreams -
as well as on sleep terrors and sleepwalking.

Did you know?

Frontal EEG theta activity is one of the most robust electroencephalographic (EEG) correlates of dream recall from REM sleep.

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Visit these pages containing a wealth of information about dreams and sleep disorders

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Science articles and book chapters.

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TV documentaries and other presentations.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about dreams.

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Random FAQ question

How common are nightmares?

There is a growing appreciation among health specialists and the general public that nightmares are a frequent sleep problem with important consequences for sleep quality and mental health. Large student and community-based epidemiological studies across different countries indicate that 8% to 29% of adults report monthly nightmares while 2% to 6% report weekly nightmares.  Community surveys assessing incidence of nightmare “problems” rather than frequency found that between 5% and 8% of the adult general population report a current problem with nightmares, while about 6% report a past problem.

Finally, one of our own studies based on almost 10 000 dream reports collected in home dream logs from over 550 participants showed almost 3% of all prospectively collected dream narratives were nightmares (very disturbing dreams that wake up the dreamer) while bad dreams (disturbing dreams which do not cause the dreamer to awaken; they are remembered only after being awakened by external factors such as an alarm clock or later during the day) accounted for almost 11% of the dream reports. Thus almost 15% of all remembered dreams are considered to be highly disturbing dreams.

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SLEEP SCIENTIST, ONEIRONAUT, AUTHOR

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