Also this year, spring brings one of the major popular science events in Slovenia. Brain Week 2018 will be held under the title The world stands on dreams from March 12 to 16, 2018. The main venue of the event will be Ljubljana, and the accompanying program will also take place in other major cities in Slovenia. Through lectures, workshops, film screenings and a round table, we will question the role of sleep, dreaming and daydreaming through the prism of the brain. Entry is free.
What is a dream? What are they for? Why do we have to spend a third of your life sleeping? We have been wrestling with these questions for thousands of years, and until recently it seemed that we were not very successful in finding the answers. Modern science is removing the veils of these mysterious phenomena for the first time in history, and this year Brain week we will be able to meet the latest discoveries about dreaming, reverie and sleep. Brain Week 2018, with Title The world stands on dreams, will be held from March 12 to 16, 2018 in ZRC Atrium and Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana, and the accompanying program will also take place in other major Slovenian cities. During this time we will be able to attend interesting lectures, workshops for children and adults, film screenings with discussion and closing round tables. The event is intended for everyone who is interested in the function, capabilities and diseases of the brain.
We usually treat dreams as something ethereal, completely separate from reality and the material world. Through lectures, workshops and film screenings, this belief will be at Brain Week challenged and turned upside down: dreams are not the opposite of the real world, but co-create it. A set of renowned and newly minted lecturers will be a dream during sleep through lectures and discussions placed in the physical world of our brain and presented neurophysiological processes of dream weaving. Through the interpretation of dreams, we will get to know theirs entanglement with waking life and get to know in more detail the phenomenon of lucid dreaming, where we are awake in sleep. This year's Brain Week will also focus on daydreams, so daydreaming, fantasies and visions of the future. Together we will walk away from this, how visions guide our everyday decisions, to ways, how common dreams and utopias create civilizations and build the future. Do those who sleep too much dream, or does the world need more dreamers? Come to Brain Week 2018 and see for yourself. Entry to the event is free. For film screenings at the Slovenian Cinematheque, it is necessary to pick up free ticket. More information about Brain Week can be found at this link.
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