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Fri, 16:59: RT @CBCQuirks: A guy using brain-computer interface tech did a task from within his lucid dream. Here's the science: https://t.co/kfeJx7C4f…
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Sat, 08:20: RT @praddenkeefe: By the time I figured out what was happening they were just staring at each other through the screen, both equally surpri…
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Sat, 09:54: RT @nostalgicbroad: Look! I get to air one of my major professional grievances in The South Carolina Review, right after International Wome…
Sat, 10:00: A "joke" that everyone with non-binary pronouns has already heard a gazillion times: "Well, *my* pronouns are Nitwit/Blubber/Oddment/Tweak!"

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/don-t-pee-in-the-pool-bees-play-ball-and-lucid-dreaming-1.4008562/can-we-control-computers-with-our-dreams-1.4008629
Quirks & Quarks
Can we control computers with our dreams?
CBC Radio · Posted: Mar 03, 2017 3:27 PM ET | Last Updated: May 1, 2020

Can we control our computers with our dreams? (Quirks & Quarks graphic)
Have you ever woken up inside of a dream and realized you were dreaming? Many people claim they have and say they've even able to take control of their dreams to do things like fly or confront their nightmares. This is a phenomenon known as lucid dreaming.

When Remy Mallet, a cognitive neuroscience graduate student at the University of Texas Austin, was an undergrad at the University of Missouri, he was inspired by a science news story out of Brown University. A woman who was paralyzed was able to control a robotic prosthetic limb using her mind. So, using a computer rigged up to respond to brain signals, he went to sleep, started dreaming, took control of that dream and actually completed a computer task from within his dream. He sees this as a potential way to communicate with other people from within dreams.

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Dr. Ursula Voss, a professor of psychology at Goethe University, Frankfurt, in Germany, has studied lucid dreaming. She says something very unusual happens in the brains of lucid dreamers when they wake up within their dreams. They have a partial awakening in the frontal regions of their brain while the rest of their brain tries to maintain sleep. Dr. Voss says lucid dreaming can be a great tool for helping people, especially those with PTSD, to overcome recurring nightmares.

Related Links:

Why do we sleep? What happens when we don't?
Induction of self awareness in dreams through frontal low current stimulation of gamma activity
Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming
Use of Brain-Computer-Interface during a Lucid Dream: Pilot Study and Future Directions
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