gave a casual talk on sleep, dreams, and brain waves! to a qualia interest group through interact. some topics covered:

brain wave frequencies and brain states
- delta, theta, alpha, smr, beta, gamma
sleep and dreams
- sleep stages, rem sleep, sleep and eeg
- liminal dream states: hypnagogia, hypnopompia, sleep paralysis
- theories of dreaming
- lucid dreaming
- oneirogens, aka dream herbs
neurofeedback
- history and applications
binaural beats
- hearing theory, frequency theory
- brain wave entrainment
- solfeggio tones
visual reconstruction of dreams

here are the slides:

i’ve been on a real neuroscience + neurofeedback + brain waves kick this year and have been really interested in getting into dream research! i read dream researcher allan hobson’s dream life: an experimental memoir and currently reading jennifer dumpert’s liminal dreaming: exploring consciousness at the edges of sleep. i also wrote a speculative fiction short story earlier this year exploring dream therapy, neurofeedback, binaural beats, and music, to be published later this summer :-) excited to share it once it’s out!

i’ve been particularly interested in:

neurofeedback + eeg + music
therapeutic applications of lucid dreaming
dream generation and reconstruction
autoencoders for brain states and dreams

if any of these topics interest you, please get in touch! i would love to collaborate or chat more about any of these explorations :-)