Many people are familiar with one-way communication with a sleeping person, as sleepwalking and sleep talking are common phenomena. They also theorized that this communication could be induced and replicated under the right conditions in the lab, which would be great for future sleep research.
At least three other research groups in France, Germany, and the Netherlands had been pursuing the same goal. The study was published Thursday in Current Biology, while the work will also be featured in a PBS documentary airing on Friday the segment can already be viewed on YouTube here.
Altogether, the study involved 36 volunteers. And of course for entertainment. KA: There are many different things. For example, how does dreaming work? What actually influences dreams? How does the narrative of a dream develop? If you can manipulate somehow the course of the dream, then you might find out more about how the brain usually does it with and without this intervention. So you could find out a lot of things about dreaming. KA: One thing that I find very exciting is how you can actually increase message complexity.
Konkoly et al. One of the study authors sleeping in the lab. Electrical signals from his brain and eye movements are displayed on a computer monitor. Diet Implicated in Autism-Microbiome Link. Increased creative thinking may help a sleeping person reach the lucid dreaming state, Chabani adds. Chelsea Mackey, a clinical psychology Ph.
Now a junior at Northwestern majoring in neuroscience, Mazurek is working in the lab of study author Ken Paller. Once turned on, the app will wait six hours. Then, in an attempt to induce lucid dreaming in its user, it will play preset soft noises.
Users are asked to fill out a dream report upon waking up to record their experiences. The early results have been promising: App users tend to have lucid dreams more often than other people, Mazurek explains. Historically, dream reporting has been fraught with difficulty, as many people cannot reliably or coherently recall a dream after waking up.
Mackey agrees that the findings of the study are promising. Machine translations can generate errors or inaccuracies; we will continue the work to improve these translations. You can find the original version here.
Dreams have always fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike, since all human beings dream, even if they cannot remember them. In addition, the dream world has almost always provoked a certain aura of mystery for society as a whole, due to certain issues related to sleep, such as sleepwalking, lucid dreaming , or sleep paralysis.
Now, can you imagine that during sleep you could communicate with the real world? Would you be able to solve a mathematical problem or even write a novel or compose a score for an orchestra?
This is what has been investigated by a group of scientists from different countries, with a sample of 36 people in 4 different laboratories, which have published their findings in Current Biology. According to this study, a new form of rest, interactive sleep , has been discovered, in which people in deep sleep or lucid dreaming are able to follow instructions, answer yes or no to different questions, and even solve basic mathematical problems.
This experiment is of vital importance, as a new form of communication between the dream state of things and the real world has been discovered, which could lead to numerous applications. In the case of Appel's lab, the researcher asked sleeping subjects mathematical questions via Morse code.
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