Kingdom of Dreams

Igor Rudan
13 min readMay 17, 2021

An average person will spend more than 20 years of their lives sleeping. Why?

Anyone who has ever watched professional acrobats in a circus, jugglers on the street, ice skaters, pianists or cello players surely must have been surprised with the extent to which people can develop various abilities by constantly practising. But few have thought of developing their ability to participate more actively in their own dreams during the night. Psychologists from the University of Adelaide in Australia have decided to try just that: to develop techniques that can increase their chances of having so-called…

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Igor Rudan

Director, Centre for Global Health at the University of Edinburgh, UK; President, International Society of Global Health; Editor, Journal of Global Health;