Science 2 entries
- Interactive Dreaming: How Scientists Learned to Talk with People Inside Their DreamsFor most of history a dream was a sealed room — you could only describe it after you woke up. Then scientists found a way to get a deliberate signal out of a dream, and, decades later, to hold a real-time two-way conversation with a sleeping, dreaming person. Here is how interactive dreaming works, and what it has and hasn't shown.
- Is lucid dreaming real? How scientists proved itLucid dreaming sounds like something that could never be tested. Yet since the 1980s, sleep laboratories have objectively verified it — and have even held real-time conversations with people inside their dreams. Here is how the science was done, and what it does and does not show.