RRC
Progress

Where things stand, honestly.

No inflated numbers. Just what we've finished, what's in progress, and a dated log of what changed and when.

Roadmap

Current milestones

What's finished, what's underway, and what's next, in one place.

  • Research Framework

    Complete

    We've settled how a project gets scoped, documented, and reviewed.

  • Team Formation

    Complete

    Core team is together, covering theory, anatomy, biochemistry, and computation.

  • Theory Paper Drafted

    Complete

    The six-step cascade is written up in full, with its divergences from the classical account stated so they can be tested.

  • Publication by End of October

    In progress

    The theory paper is in the publication pipeline, targeted to be out by the end of October 2026.

  • Clinical Testing

    Planned

    After publication, the model goes into clinical testing, evaluated against the competing accounts rather than in isolation.

  • Companion Empirical Study

    Planned

    The directed-influence predictions get their own study, designed to separate our ordering claim from the classical architecture.

  • Dream Emotional-Tone Study

    In progress

    A behavioral companion study testing whether emotionally salient experience leaves a trace in later dreams, prepared for IRB review at Cerritos College.

Log

Roadmap updates

Newest first. We add to this as things actually happen.

Behavioral companion study proposed

Wrote up a one-month dream-diary study testing whether emotional waking experience shows up in the emotional tone of later dreams. It's headed for IRB review with our Cerritos College faculty sponsor, Prof. Anthony Mendez.

Theory paper submitted for publication

The six-step cascade paper is out of our hands and into review. We're aiming to see it published by the end of October.

Cascade restated as a directed-influence claim

Rewrote the model so its three divergences from Hobson and McCarley are claims about what causes what, not about which regions light up. Activation mapping can't settle it; that's the point.

Research framework finalized

Agreed on how a project gets scoped, written up, and reviewed before we call it real work.

Core team structure defined

Sorted out who owns what, and where we still need more hands.

REM Research Collective founded

Got started: a few students who wanted to study dreaming properly.