Qu
July 29, 2012, 9:15am
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[title]Lucid Dreamers Help Scientists Locate the Seat of Meta-Consciousness in the Brain[/title]
— Studies of lucid dreamers show which centers of the brain become active when we become aware of ourselves in dreams.
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By comparing the activity of the brain during one of these lucid periods with the activity measured immediately before in a normal dream, the scientists were able to identify the characteristic brain activities of lucid awareness.
“The general basic activity of the brain is similar in a normal dream and in a lucid dream,” says Michael Czisch, head of a research group at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. “In a lucid state, however, the activity in certain areas of the cerebral cortex increases markedly within seconds. The involved areas of the cerebral cortex are the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, to which commonly the function of self-assessment is attributed, and the frontopolar regions, which are responsible for evaluating our own thoughts and feelings. The precuneus is also especially active, a part of the brain that has long been linked with self-perception.” The findings confirm earlier studies and have made the neural networks of a conscious mental state visible for the first time.
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Awesome. That is a great discovery.
Fate
July 29, 2012, 2:28pm
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Hopefully this article can be used to convince “non-believers” that lucid dreaming exists.
@Fate
Nope, S. LaBerge’s research convinced them. This article opens the gate to the physical explanation and cause of lucid dreaming.
Nice. That’s pretty nuts…
web
December 20, 2012, 5:21am
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I have the full research paper if anyone is interested in groking it and providing some further analysis. There seems to be a decent amount of scientific research on lucid dreaming happening.
Does this prove that consciousness and lucid dreams are created by brain tissue? Again we have the analogy of the television set. Just because certain areas of the television circuitry are active at different times during a broadcast does not mean that the television set is producing the broadcast.