Abstract

We tracked sleep quality, dream memory and sense of agency, the feeling of control over thoughts and actions, using wearable devices and journals to assess how these experiences shift over time and over the course of individual dream sequences. In this talk, I discuss the use of agency-specific surveys as well as a novel protocol that focuses on the change of agency as a way of filling in the gaps of our understanding about control and the dream state.

Short Bio

Melanie Rosen is an associate professor at Trent University in Canada where she does interdisciplinary research on dreams and altered states of consciousness. She was a Carlsberg distinguished scholar at Aarhus university from 2017-2020, and completed her PhD at Macquarie University, Sydney in 2013. She is the author of "the dreaming mind", published with Routledge in 2024. 

What is an AIAS Seminar?

The AIAS Seminar Series is a session of seminars held by the AIAS fellows, AIAS Visiting or Tandem Fellows or by other speakers proposed by the fellows. In each seminar, a fellow will present and discuss her/his current research and work-in-progress to an interdisciplinary audience for 30 minutes, closing off with 30 minutes for questions, comments and discussion.

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