Featured
Learn more about my research! This is a collection of popular press videos and articles about my research.
Videos
National Science Foundation Scientist Selfie: Meet Karen Konkoly
This Could Be a Dream | TEDxLehighU
How Scientists Learned to Enter People's Dreams | Popular Mechanics
Mind Science Brainstorm Pitch Competition Winner | Dreams on Demand: A New Method to Find Out Why We Dream at Night
NOVA PBS Official: Dream Hacking
IGPP Freiburg Colloquium: Conversing with Dreamers: New Strategies for Dream Science
Selected coverage in the lay press
Northwestern Now: Study shows pre-sleep training coupled with sensory cues can trigger lucid dreaming
PsyPost: Lucid dreaming app triples users’ awareness in dreams, study finds
NSF.gov: Scientists break through the wall of sleep to the untapped world of dreams
Science News: Scientists entered people’s dreams and got them ‘talking’
Vice: Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication With Lucid Dreamers in Breakthrough
Forbes: Scientists Just Got People To Solve Math Problems While Dreaming
CNN: Real-time talk with a sleeping person is possible – and they can even understand it
Scientific American: People Answer Scientists’ Queries in Real Time while Dreaming
US News & World Report: Folks Can Have Real-Life Conversations While Dreaming, Study Finds
Selected Podcast Appearances
California Science Podcast: Ever wonder if you can control your dreams?
Lucid Sage Podcast: Episode 31 Karen Konkoly
Sleep Science Podcast: Episode 9: Michelle Carr and Karen Konkoly - What is lucid dreaming and how can it help us?
NPR: Scientists Talked To People In Their Dreams. They Answered
The Dream World Podcast: EP60: Lucid Dream Research Lab Feat. Karen Konkoly
Nocturnal Frequency Radio: S13E29 – Communication with Lucid Dreamers with guest Karen Konkoly
Open BCI Video Blog
Here is my (informal!) video blog about self-experimentation with Open BCI, with collaborator Dashiell Bark-Huss!