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For example, for the question, ‘three plus one,’ would be something like ‘dih dih dih diiiih diiiih’ for ‘three,’ then ‘dih diiiih diiiih dih’ for ‘plus’ then ‘dih diiiih diiiih diiiih diiiih’ for ‘one.’ These beeping tones are presented to the subject sleeping in the sleep laboratory. KA: In Germany, I asked math questions via Morse code. KONKOLY TS: How did you ask questions to the dreamers? And also have the person answer these messages either by eye movement that you can control from within the dream or via facial muscle contractions. So the idea was to have someone achieving lucidity and in the dream state and then interact with them either via spoken messages or via beeping tones, flashing lights, or tactile stimulation to get messages inside the dream. KA: This study was conducted by four independent labs in four different countries, which is also kind of special.
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TS: Could you describe your experimental design for interacting with lucid dreamers?
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And we also tried to continue this line of research and find a way to transfer actual messages with real content between the dream world and the waking world. So this lucid dreaming study was a step forward from what has been done previously in other lucid dreaming studies. So it’s kind of cool to try to interact with these people and see if you can actually get answers to your questions and try to see if you can find some new ways of doing dream research. Kristoffer Appel: First of all, it’s exciting to try something that is seemingly impossible-to communicate with someone who’s sleeping. The Scientist: What was the inspiration for doing this study? The Scientist spoke with Appel to learn more about the research on communication with lucid dreamers and the doors it could open for dream research, learning, and even entertainment.
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In response to yes/no questions and simple math problems, six participants correctly answered a total of 29 questions with pre-arranged eye signals. While the participants snoozed, the researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) analyses of brain activity to confirm that they were asleep. In a proof-of-concept study, the sleep researchers recruited volunteers who were frequent lucid dreamers or who learned lucidity-inducing techniques. See “ Scientists Engineer Dreams to Understand the Sleeping Brain” To overcome this problem, Appel and his colleagues sought to communicate in real-time with dreamers. “Of course, this relies on the memories of the participant, and this might be distorted,” says Kristoffer Appel, a sleep and dream researcher at Osnabrück University and the Institute of Sleep and Dream Technologies in Hamburg and a coauthor of the study. But to learn the content of these dreams, researchers still rely on sleepers’ recollection upon waking. In other lucid dreaming studies, sleepers have signaled lucidity with eye movements, allowing researchers to distinguish brain activity during these episodes. In a study published today (February 18) in Current Biology, scientists show that lucid dreamers can process and exchange complex messages with the waking world. Lucid dreaming could also help researchers peer inside the dream state in new ways. Unshackled from space and time that govern waking life, lucid slumberers can explore endless possibilities of the dreaming world. Lucid dreams, the kind in which dreamers become aware that they’re dreaming, often allow control of the dreams’ narratives.