BrainCraft: The Truth About Lucid Dreaming

Teacher or professor: BrainCraft
Subject: Science
Content of the Lesson: To brush up on stats, science courses and more, go to http://brilliant.org and sign up for free (also, the first 200 people will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription) I'm talking about polyphasic sleep on the Big Think(!) 👉https://youtu.be/1Y-qLKZWyDs All three episodes of Sleeping With Friends are LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVDHsMx78wk&list=PLQwg0PxpUPlr4JgRnSD9GEtiqt3zmKzJQ SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! 👉 http://ow.ly/rt5IE My Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill | Instagram https://instagram.com/nessyhill Does lucid dreaming live up to the hype, and is it likely you'll have control if you actually lucid dream? In this video we chat about the history, the risks, and have a sip of my opinion. REFERENCES 📚 Denis, D. (2016). Lucid Dreaming May Help Us Unravel the Mysteries of Consciousness. https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-lucid-dreaming-3363/ Soffer-Dudek, N. (2020). Are Lucid Dreams Good for Us? Are We Asking the Right Question? A Call for Caution in Lucid Dream Research. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13(January), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01423 Erlacher, D., & Schredl, M. (2010). Practicing a motor task in a lucid dream enhances subsequent performance: A pilot study. The Sport Psychologist, 24(2), 157-167. Pavlou, A. (2019). I ’ m a lucid dream researcher – here ’ s how to train your brain to do it. https://theconversation.com/im-a-lucid-dream-researcher-heres-how-to-train-your-brain-to-do-it-118901 Mota-Rolim, S. A. (2020). On Moving the Eyes to Flag Lucid Dreaming. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14. Erlacher, D., & Schredl, M. (2008). Cardiovascular responses to dreamed physical exercise during REM lucid dreaming. Dreaming, 18(2), 112. Schadow, C., Schredl, M., Rieger, J., and Göritz, A. S. (2018). The relationship between lucid dream frequency and sleep quality: two cross-sectional studies. Int. J. Dream Res. 11, 154–159. doi: 10.11588/ijodr.2018.2.48341 Doll, E., Gittler, G., and Holzinger, B. (2009). Dreaming, lucid dreaming and personality. Int. J. Dream Res. 2, 52–57. doi: 10.11588/ijodr.2009.2.142 Images used under CC 🖼 Sleeping Brain https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6465/628/tab-figures-data Lucid drawing brain scans https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737577/ Prefrontal cortex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_cortex#/media/File:Prefrontal_cortex_(left)_animation.gif Brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe#/media/File:Lobes_of_the_brain_NL.svg Fmri https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Varian4T.jpg/1024px-Varian4T.jpg Dreams text by Biljana Jovanovic from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/BiljaST-2868488/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=4827288


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