Researchers have done experiments with people having lucid dreams.

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The dream world is not a closed universe.

Interactions between the sleeper and his environment are possible according to a new study conducted by researchers from Inserm, AP-HP, Sorbonne University and CNRS with several American, German and Dutch groups, reports

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As other laboratories were also doing research in this area, the results were pooled.

Whether it is narcoleptic subjects, as for the French team, or "without sleep disturbances", it appeared that dreamers could answer the questions of an awake person with eye codes or by moving the facial muscles. while they were still in a REM phase of sleep.

Lucid dreamers as subjects

They conducted their experiment with lucid dreamers, people able to detail a task that they perform during a dream.

They could then indicate the actions they performed during their sleep, specifies

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All thanks to an ocular code that they had learned beforehand.

To then prove that communication was possible in the other direction, they performed an experiment with a very experienced lucid dreamer.

During the session, the scientists asked the dreamer aloud questions, provided tactile stimulation or even offered to distinguish words.

To answer, he had to tense his muscles, smiling to nod or frowning to say no.

Better understand the role of dreams

The dreamer was able to respond to the experimenter.

In his words, the latter's voice came across as "divine" as he saw himself partying with friends.

This possibility of a two-way communication between dream and reality calls into question the idea of ​​a dreamlike universe closed in on itself.

It could also help to better understand the role of dreaming and sleep by analyzing the activities of the brain in these phases of consciousness and dreaming.

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