Study: “Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep”
February 22, 2021
The study “Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep” was published in Current Biology on February 18.
Professor Ken Paller, of the Department of Psychology and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program, was senior author of the study showed that individuals in REM sleep could engage in real-time dialogue with the experimenter.
Read more about this study in the Northwestern Now story, “Real-time dialogue with a dreaming person is possible.”
Watch Paller’s lucid dreaming experiment on PBS NOVA’s “What the Physics?!” series below.
Related:
Scientists Talked To People In Their Dreams. They Answered – NPR
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