Karen R Konkoly, Kristoffer Appel, Emma Chabani, Anastasia Mangiaruga, Jarrod Gott, Remington Mallett, Bruce Caughran, Sarah Witkowski, Nathan W Whitmore, Christopher Y Mazurek, Jonathan B Berent, Frederik D Weber, Başak Türker, Smaranda Leu-Semenescu, Jean-Baptiste Maranci, Gordon Pipa, Isabelle Arnulf, Delphine Oudiette, Martin Dresler, Ken A Paller
Dreams take us to a different reality, a hallucinatory world that feels as real as any waking experience. These often-bizarre episodes are emblematic of human sleep but have yet to be adequately explained. Retrospective dream reports are subject to distortion and forgetting, presenting a fundamental challenge for neuroscientific studies of dreaming. Here we show that individuals who are asleep and in the midst of a lucid dream (aware of the fact that they are currently dreaming) can perceive questions from an experimenter and provide answers using electrophysiological signals...
April 12, 2021: Current Biology: CB