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| Researchers say they've successfully communicated with individuals inside their dreams |
| 2021-02-22 |
| [Just The News] A group of scientists at Northwestern University are claiming that they successfully communicated with individuals in the throes of "lucid dreams," potentially suggesting a breakthrough in the study of the relatively poorly understood phenomenon of dreaming. Researchers at Northwestern "found that individuals in REM sleep can interact with an experimenter and engage in real-time communication," the university said in a press release announcing the findings. Dreamers participating in the study were reportedly "capable of comprehending questions, engaging in working-memory operations, and producing answers." In the study, the scientists note that dreams "take us to a different reality, a hallucinatory world that feels as real as any waking experience" and that "these often-bizarre episodes are emblematic of human sleep but have yet to be adequately explained." The new findings "can enable a variety of practical applications and a new strategy for the empirical exploration of dreams," they write. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Excellent reference Warthog |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2021-02-22 20:06 |
| #9 I regularly communicate with Charlotte McKinney. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-02-22 16:34 |
| #8 "Nightmare on Elm Street" |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-02-22 16:30 |
| #7 "When you go into a bathroom in your dream, turn around and leave. It's a trap!" /Dr. Admiral Akbar |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-02-22 14:50 |
| #6 Hypnosis and REM sleep are strongly related. Investigation of hypnosis is generally anathema to medical researchers. I never heard "hypnosis" even mentioned in my medical education decades ago. My most common lucid dream starts with dreaming I am attending a social gathering, but there is no coffee available. So I start searching for a source, sometimes I walk around looking for coffee beans, a pot, water, a stove, or maybe a Starbucks. Then I realize the dream means I just want real coffee, so I wake up and make some. |
| Posted by: Knuckles Fluper5134 2021-02-22 14:23 |
| #5 No surprise. What researcher hasn't dreamed of Raquel Welch or Dolly Parton's mammories? |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-02-22 14:20 |
| #4 You have no business in my dreams. Stay out! |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-02-22 14:05 |
| #3 see "Dreamscape" |
| Posted by: Warthog 2021-02-22 09:43 |
| #2 Field testing now occurring in the White House. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-02-22 08:18 |
| #1 One can imagine all sorts of possibilities __ none of them good. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2021-02-22 07:40 |