In lucid dreams, people are aware of the fact that they are dreaming, and can control their dream plot.
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Loran
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I found this article kind of scary. It suprises me that if you zap someone's mind with a certain amount of electricity, it can make them have a certain type of dream. I liked the way they made it but it wasn't specific enough. I wonder if this can work on animals though. Well, even if it does, they can tell us so whats the point. But won't this hurt?
I really liked this article. And though it was a bit creepy, it was also fascinating. Zapping the brain can basically make it do different things. What other actions can we trigger by zapping brains? That is something I really want to know. You can control someone's actions (for the most part) by zapping them with different frequencies! This interests me. Last week, there was an article on zapping rats to learn about memory. It is a bit similar to this, but for different purposes. The only thing that is worrying is that you might hurt the person if you do it wrong. Lucid dreaming is a strange thing that is hard to understand how it works. It's a little weird that you can both be in an awake state and in REM state. Lastly, I found this video that describes lucid dreaming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSX51xBkos&feature=kp
This article was cool, but kind of creepy. It surprises me that it is even possible to have a dream in which you are aware of your state and can control your dream. Lucid dreaming could be the next big thing, where you could access a video game, or a webpage in your head. In response to Loran's question about whether it hurts or not, the brain cannot feel, so these electrical zaps would be painless. The problem is, if you hit the wrong part of the brain, such as the part that controls emotion, it could have some really devastating effects. Overall, this article was really interesting but a bit scary.
Wow! This is a very interesting article. Lucid dreams are such amazing occurrences and are really fascinating. Perhaps more fascinating, however, is that scientists can induce the human brain to experience a lucid dream. I really enjoyed reading this article, and I believe it is informative as well as interesting. However, I would like to research a little bit more about lucid dreams. Information that I hope to uncover includes how many people regularly experience lucid dreams, whether there are traits that are often present in people who commonly have lucid dreams, and if there are steps or ways that can allow a person to make themselves have a lucid dream. Additionally, I would also like to find an example of a lucid dream that someone has had.
This post discusses the answers I discovered regarding my questions I wrote earlier about lucid dreams. First, as the article stated, lucid dreams are rare. However, according to studies conducted in 1988, most people experience a lucid dream at least once in their lifetime. Additionally, 20% of the population reported having lucid dreams at least once a month. Additionally, using a form of statistical analysis, an experiment in 1983 concluded, “high private self—consciousness was the best predictor, followed by high femininity, for self—reported lucid dreaming frequency among males. For females low social anxiety and high perceptual completion scores were the best two predictors of lucid dreaming frequency.” Those results were concluded using results from personality tests administered to the subjects. Surprisingly, there are quite a few websites that claim to offer steps that will help someone experience a lucid dream. According to one of the sites I researched, methods to induce lucid dreams include working on remembering ordinary dreams. This can be accomplished by repeating the phrase "I will remember my dreams when I wake up," immediately before drifting off to sleep. Additionally, after recalling their dreams, the person who wants to be a lucid dreamer should then right them down in a journal. While righting them down, the said person should notice details in the dream that don't make sense. For example, in the dream, if someone is flying, they will realize how impossible that is when recording the dream, though the person might not of noticed that while they were sleeping. As someone takes the time to notice impossible occurrences in their dream after they are awake, they will, hopefully, begin to notice impossible occurrences while they are asleep, which can then lead to them having a lucid dream. Being able to pick out those signs that indicate you are dreaming, however, means that you must be paying close attention in the dream to all events. In order to help you do that, the website advises all people who would like to have a lucid dream to carefully observe their surroundings while they are awake. For example, while awake, someone who wants to have a lucid dream should constantly ask themselves about what they smell, what they taste, what they see, what they hear, and what they feel. By doing this while awake, the person will hopefully do that while in a dream, which can lead them to noticing impossible occurrences. Additionally, while awake, someone who wants to have a lucid dream should constantly asks themselves if they are dreaming, so that that person might also ask themselves this question while asleep, which can lead to someone noticing an impossible occurrence, and having a lucid dream. Once someone knows that they are in a dream, they can "control" their dreams "and the direction they go in." Of course, as the article in the blog proves, scientists can artificially induce a lucid dream. An example of a particularly interesting lucid dream is as follows: A women dreamt that she was walking through a forest. The dim lighting made her believe that it was early evening, but her watch read 11:52 pm. Looking up, the women surveyed her surroundings. Still confused by why the lighting looked so much earlier, the women read her watch again. Now the watch said 4:30 pm. The women looked back up at her surroundings, and then glanced down at her watch for the third time. The watch now read 6:22 am. The women then realized how strange it was that when she was looking at her watch it read one time, and then when she looked away, the watch was switching to a completely different time. The weird and rapid time changes clued the women in on the fact that she was dreaming. Knowing this, she made herself fly about and explore the land she had dreamed up. Lucid dreams are truly amazing. It is wonderful that science is advanced enough to monitor and cause our complex human brain to have such an experience. Overall, I loved learning about lucid dreams.
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I found this article kind of scary. It suprises me that if you zap someone's mind with a certain amount of electricity, it can make them have a certain type of dream. I liked the way they made it but it wasn't specific enough. I wonder if this can work on animals though. Well, even if it does, they can tell us so whats the point. But won't this hurt?
I really liked this article. And though it was a bit creepy, it was also fascinating. Zapping the brain can basically make it do different things. What other actions can we trigger by zapping brains? That is something I really want to know. You can control someone's actions (for the most part) by zapping them with different frequencies! This interests me. Last week, there was an article on zapping rats to learn about memory. It is a bit similar to this, but for different purposes. The only thing that is worrying is that you might hurt the person if you do it wrong. Lucid dreaming is a strange thing that is hard to understand how it works. It's a little weird that you can both be in an awake state and in REM state. Lastly, I found this video that describes lucid dreaming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSX51xBkos&feature=kp
This article was cool, but kind of creepy. It surprises me that it is even possible to have a dream in which you are aware of your state and can control your dream. Lucid dreaming could be the next big thing, where you could access a video game, or a webpage in your head. In response to Loran's question about whether it hurts or not, the brain cannot feel, so these electrical zaps would be painless. The problem is, if you hit the wrong part of the brain, such as the part that controls emotion, it could have some really devastating effects. Overall, this article was really interesting but a bit scary.
Wow! This is a very interesting article. Lucid dreams are such amazing occurrences and are really fascinating. Perhaps more fascinating, however, is that scientists can induce the human brain to experience a lucid dream. I really enjoyed reading this article, and I believe it is informative as well as interesting. However, I would like to research a little bit more about lucid dreams. Information that I hope to uncover includes how many people regularly experience lucid dreams, whether there are traits that are often present in people who commonly have lucid dreams, and if there are steps or ways that can allow a person to make themselves have a lucid dream. Additionally, I would also like to find an example of a lucid dream that someone has had.
This post discusses the answers I discovered regarding my questions I wrote earlier about lucid dreams. First, as the article stated, lucid dreams are rare. However, according to studies conducted in 1988, most people experience a lucid dream at least once in their lifetime. Additionally, 20% of the population reported having lucid dreams at least once a month. Additionally, using a form of statistical analysis, an experiment in 1983 concluded, “high private self—consciousness was the best predictor, followed by high femininity, for self—reported lucid dreaming frequency among males. For females low social anxiety and high perceptual completion scores were the best two predictors of lucid dreaming frequency.” Those results were concluded using results from personality tests administered to the subjects.
Surprisingly, there are quite a few websites that claim to offer steps that will help someone experience a lucid dream. According to one of the sites I researched, methods to induce lucid dreams include working on remembering ordinary dreams. This can be accomplished by repeating the phrase "I will remember my dreams when I wake up," immediately before drifting off to sleep. Additionally, after recalling their dreams, the person who wants to be a lucid dreamer should then right them down in a journal. While righting them down, the said person should notice details in the dream that don't make sense. For example, in the dream, if someone is flying, they will realize how impossible that is when recording the dream, though the person might not of noticed that while they were sleeping. As someone takes the time to notice impossible occurrences in their dream after they are awake, they will, hopefully, begin to notice impossible occurrences while they are asleep, which can then lead to them having a lucid dream. Being able to pick out those signs that indicate you are dreaming, however, means that you must be paying close attention in the dream to all events. In order to help you do that, the website advises all people who would like to have a lucid dream to carefully observe their surroundings while they are awake. For example, while awake, someone who wants to have a lucid dream should constantly ask themselves about what they smell, what they taste, what they see, what they hear, and what they feel. By doing this while awake, the person will hopefully do that while in a dream, which can lead them to noticing impossible occurrences. Additionally, while awake, someone who wants to have a lucid dream should constantly asks themselves if they are dreaming, so that that person might also ask themselves this question while asleep, which can lead to someone noticing an impossible occurrence, and having a lucid dream. Once someone knows that they are in a dream, they can "control" their dreams "and the direction they go in." Of course, as the article in the blog proves, scientists can artificially induce a lucid dream.
An example of a particularly interesting lucid dream is as follows: A women dreamt that she was walking through a forest. The dim lighting made her believe that it was early evening, but her watch read 11:52 pm. Looking up, the women surveyed her surroundings. Still confused by why the lighting looked so much earlier, the women read her watch again. Now the watch said 4:30 pm. The women looked back up at her surroundings, and then glanced down at her watch for the third time. The watch now read 6:22 am. The women then realized how strange it was that when she was looking at her watch it read one time, and then when she looked away, the watch was switching to a completely different time. The weird and rapid time changes clued the women in on the fact that she was dreaming. Knowing this, she made herself fly about and explore the land she had dreamed up.
Lucid dreams are truly amazing. It is wonderful that science is advanced enough to monitor and cause our complex human brain to have such an experience. Overall, I loved learning about lucid dreams.
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