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Talking from inside a dream
In 2021, lucid dreamers answered simple maths questions while still asleep in REM.
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In four labs across the world, people who could recognise they were dreaming answered questions such as "what is 8 minus 6?" with eye movements while their brain waves showed they were still in REM sleep. It was the first real-time conversation with dreamers, and it shows how much of the mind stays awake in a dream.
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