Dr Michelle Carr

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Science Weekly · Revisited: The surprising science of dreams and nightmares · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Maybe right in bed before you go to sleep at night, you imagine this more positive version of the dream.

And doing this over time reduces nightmare frequency and leads to generally less negative dreams over time.

Yeah, definitely.

Dream engineering really can be this broad range of techniques that we use to try to influence the content of our dreams.

And one of the main focuses is treating nightmares and overcoming nightmares.

But we can also explore using different methods to try to have dreams.

more creative dreams.

One study in my colleague's lab, they looked at inducing flying dreams.

I mean, flying is one of the most positive and kind of euphoric dream experiences.

And that's an enjoyable dream experience that can make you feel good when you wake up in the morning.

Musicians talk about practicing their instrument in the dream, or athletes can practice their sport in a dream.

So there's all sorts of different ways that you can start to use your dreaming life

either for fun or for inspiration.

Well, there's a few different techniques.

One of them, quite simply, is when you go to bed at night, if there's a particular theme that you want to dream about, you can spend 10 or 15 minutes while you're lying in bed really visualizing the type of dream experience that you want to have.

This is called dream incubation.

But for lucid dreaming as well, there are other techniques.

One of them is throughout the day, you can do something called reality checks, which is where you, you know, maybe 10 times across the day, you remind yourself to check whether you're dreaming or not and just take a moment and look around at what you're experiencing.

And ask yourself if what you're experiencing is like a dream.

It's kind of training your mind to pay attention.

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