As we dream, we can listen in on the waking world – podcast

While researchers can tell quite accurately when somebody is asleep using electrodes to sense their brain activity, there are no neural markers for dreams.

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  • While researchers can tell quite accurately when somebody is asleep using electrodes to sense their brain activity, there are no neural markers for dreams.
  • That means you just have to ask someone about their dreams when they wake up.
  • Dream researchers realised back in the 1980s that one special group of people could help open a window into the dream world: lucid dreamers.
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