Researchers have held real-time conversations with people while they were asleep and dreaming: lucid dreamers in verified REM sleep correctly answered maths problems and signalled their responses with prearranged eye movements — processing questions from the waking world without ever waking up.
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A sleeper hears a maths problem, works out the answer inside a dream, and moves their eyes in a rehearsed pattern. Electrodes beside the eyes record the reply while brain and muscle signals still meet the standard criteria for rapid-eye-movement sleep.
That is the core of a remarkable 2021 proof-of-concept study conducted by four independent teams. It showed that a small number of lucid dreamers could receive new information and send a limited answer back without waking for the exchange. The fin
That is the core of a remarkable 2021 proof-of-concept study conducted by four independent teams. It showed that a small number of lucid dreamers could receive new information and send a limited answer back without waking for the exchange. The fin
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