This week on TestTube Plus, we’re discussing dreams: yesterday talked about seven insane things we’ve gotten from dreams. Today, Trace talks about whether or not it’s possible to record our dreams.

It would be cool if we could record our dreams, but how close are we? Scientists in Kyoto, Japan, recorded brainwaves of dreaming subjects and then woke then up while they were in REM sleep. They asked them to recall their dreams, and tried to match their brainwave patterns with an algorithm that could help predict what they were dreaming moving forward. It’s rudimentary, but it matched 60 percent of the time. UC Berkeley is also doing some fascinating research into this topic as well. Check out this episode to find out more.

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History of Lucid Dreaming: Ancient India to the Enlightenment (Dream Studies)
“Although the scientific community did not recognize lucid dreaming until 1978, the history of this unique dreaming experience reaches back thousands of years, and potentially into the Paleolithic Era. However, the first verifiable documentation of lucid dreaming originated in the East thousands of years ago.”

Lucid dreaming: Evidence that REM sleep can support unimpaired cognitive function and a methodology for studying the psychophysiology of dreaming (lucidity.com)
” Lucid dreaming provides a test case for theories of dreaming. For example, whether or not “loss of self-reflective awareness” is characteristic of dreaming, it is clearly not necessary to dreaming. Theories of dreaming that do not account for lucidity are incomplete, and theories that do not allow for lucidity are incorrect.”`