“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.”
Our research focuses on the scientific study of dreams
- including everyday dreams, nightmares and lucid dreams -
as well as on sleep terrors and sleepwalking.
In 1867, Hervey de Saint Denys published Les Rêves et les Moyens de les Diriger (Dreams and How to Guide Them). In it, he wrote that “sleep without dreams cannot exist, just as wake without mentation does not exist.” Recent theoretical and empirical work suggests he was right.
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Science articles and book chapters.
TV documentaries and other presentations.
Frequently asked questions about dreams.