World Sleep Day at NaPS - Free event

World Sleep Day - Make Sleep Health a Priority

As part of World Sleep Day, the Neuroscience and Psychology of Sleep (NaPS) lab at CUBRIC, Cardiff University, are hosting a public event with talks from our sleep researchers, guest speakers and sleep activities.

Get your ticket today for free. This is an in-person event.

We will have interactive talks and stalls on the following topics:

• Foods that are good for our sleep

• Can eye masks help us to get better sleep?

• Overnight Therapy - Can we alter our memories overnight?

• Sleep Lab tours

• Guest Speakers on Dreams - what do they mean and what do we get from them?

  • We're very fortunate to welcome sleep scientist Professor Mark Blagrove and artist/design writer Professor Julia Lockhart from DreamsID. They are hosting a talk on their research on dreams as well as a dream workshop where a guest's dream is discussed and painted live to help understand our dreams.

  • Talk description:

    • There is longstanding debate as to whether dreams are fleeting, nonsensical and have no function, versus having a function of processing emotions or memories while we sleep. This talk will present a new, third option. Humans have evolved to have complex dreams because of the group-bonding and empathy effects of telling dreams after we wake. The talk will present evidence for this view, and the audience will discuss these different views as to whether dreaming has a function. 

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See schedule below.