Just read a section on it in the last day or two - he describes a study in which is fascinating.
They took people who said they could lucid dream, and had them alternately clench their right and left hands into fists, and did scans while they were doing that to map the areas of the brain involved.
Then they let the people fall asleep in the MRI, with pre-established cues from eye movement to indicate what they were doing, since there is complete paralysis in REM sleep. (So, for example, three looks to the left when they entered lucid dreaming, two to the right when they were clenching their right hand, etc.)
And then the person in the MRI went and did things in the dream, including specific actions (moving left, moving right, repeating the hand gestures they'd mapped while awake) and the brain scans match up.
Which is definitely some interesting science. (He goes into more detail than I'm typing up here, and also has footnotes.)
I haven't done anything with lucid dreaming because I remember dreaming very irregularly unless certain med things are going on.
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Date: 2018-01-26 08:36 pm (UTC)They took people who said they could lucid dream, and had them alternately clench their right and left hands into fists, and did scans while they were doing that to map the areas of the brain involved.
Then they let the people fall asleep in the MRI, with pre-established cues from eye movement to indicate what they were doing, since there is complete paralysis in REM sleep. (So, for example, three looks to the left when they entered lucid dreaming, two to the right when they were clenching their right hand, etc.)
And then the person in the MRI went and did things in the dream, including specific actions (moving left, moving right, repeating the hand gestures they'd mapped while awake) and the brain scans match up.
Which is definitely some interesting science. (He goes into more detail than I'm typing up here, and also has footnotes.)
I haven't done anything with lucid dreaming because I remember dreaming very irregularly unless certain med things are going on.