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Ken Paller
@paller.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist at Northwestern U investigating memory, sleep, consciousness, other stuff
http://kenpaller.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Great ideas, @laurahelmuth.bsky.social — we’re working on sleep-engineering methods with wearables to supplement such strategies, but they aren’t ready to use yet. A good therapist knowledgeable about behavioral sleep medicine can also help, and they have a community = SBSM www.behavioralsleep.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Indiana (and any state) can #DitchDST in coordination with surrounding states. Tell your state legislators to file our pact bill now for this January! savestandardtime.com/legislation/...
DRAFT LEGISLATION TO DITCH DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME | Save Standard Time
Abolish Daylight Saving Time and restore permanent Standard Time.
savestandardtime.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In class on paper, one short-answer question you select from a list given to students in advance?
August 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
@karenkonkoly.bsky.social welcome to bluesky
August 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
See also: the new paper co-first-authored by PhD students Daniel Morris and Blaise Elliott, which describes a way to provoke lucid dreams about revisiting a profound Virtual-Reality experience - academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Lucid dreaming of a prior virtual-reality experience with ego-transcendent qualities: a proof-of-concept study
Abstract. The immersive environments of virtual reality (VR) have potential to engender a vast range of experiences. Although participants recognize these
academic.oup.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
See also, Karen Konkoly's new paper:
“Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
August 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The VR experience is from David Glowacki and colleagues, and described in this paper: "Group VR experiences can produce ego attenuation and connectedness comparable to psychedelics,” Nature Scientific Reports, 12, 8995 (2022), doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-12637-z
August 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM