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Lucid Dreaming: The Bonkers World Inside Our Minds

2024/11/14
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Archer
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Başak Türker
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Denham Adventurehart
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Rose Rimler
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Wendy Zukerman
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Wendy Zukerman: 我对清醒梦的研究始于对自身体验的疑问，以及对这一现象背后科学机制的探索。通过采访多位专家和自身实验，我试图揭示清醒梦的奥秘，并探讨其在改善心理健康和理解意识方面的潜力。我的实验结果显示，MILD方法有一定的有效性，但并非对所有人都有效。此外，我还探讨了清醒梦中大脑活动的特殊性以及与意识的关系。 Archer: 我利用清醒梦来探索和处理我的性别认同问题，虽然结果并非如预期般完美，但这对我来说是一个重要的疗愈过程。 Denham Adventurehart: 我通过大规模研究测试了现实检验法对诱导清醒梦的有效性，结果显示其效果并不显著，这与普遍认知有所不同。我的研究也证实了MILD方法的有效性，并为清醒梦的研究提供了新的视角。 Rose Rimler: 我希望通过学习清醒梦技术来体验在梦境中变小的感觉，这对我来说是一种放松和探索的方式。 Başak Türker: 通过与清醒梦者AC的合作，我们成功地实现了在清醒梦状态下与睡眠者进行交流，这颠覆了我们对睡眠和意识的传统认知。我们的研究表明，即使在非清醒梦状态下，大脑也可能存在短暂的对外界刺激做出反应的窗口，而清醒梦者这种窗口的开放频率更高。 AC: 我拥有嗜睡症，这使得我更容易做清醒梦，我每天花大量时间在清醒梦中，这对我来说如同拥有第二人生。我参与了研究人员的实验，并在清醒梦中成功地回答了他们的问题。 Brigitte Holzinger: 我研究了清醒梦在治疗噩梦方面的应用，虽然一些研究显示清醒梦可以帮助减少噩梦，但其有效性仍需进一步研究，并且清醒梦本身也可能带来焦虑。

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Some people can control their dreams. While they're fast asleep: they fly, create new worlds, live other lives. But Wendy isn't one of them. So in today's episode, Wendy and the Science Vs team find a scientifically approved method to try to lucid dream. We test it out — and bizarre things start happening. We also explore how scientists are trying to harness the strange powers of lucid dreaming to help people, as well as to crack huge scientific mysteries, like: What is consciousness? And what exactly goes on in all of our heads when we're asleep? To do all this and more, we talk to psychologists Dr. Denholm Adventure-Heart and Dr. Brigitte Holzinger, as well as cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Başak Türker.

Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsLucidDreaming)

In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Let's Fly!

(04:24) Does Reality Testing Work?

(11:30) Does the MILD Technique work?

(14:10) Wendy and the Team Try to Lucid Dream

(17:37) Can Drugs or Masks Help You Lucid Dream?

(19:28) Inside the Mind of a Lucid Dreamer

(26:24) Strange Windows of Consciousness 

(27:58) The Lucid Dreaming Brain

(34:53) Can We Use Lucid Dreaming to Help Us?

(38:32) Did the Science Vs team have a Lucid Dream?

This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman, with help from Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang, Joel Werner, Meryl Horn and Ekedi Fauster-Keeys. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Erica Akiko Howard. Mix and sound design by Sam Bair. Music written by Bobby Lord, Bumi Hidaka, So Wiley, Peter Leonard and Emma Munger. Thanks to all the researchers we spoke to including Dr Karen Konkoly, Dr Benjamin Baird, and Professor Ken Paller. Also thanks to the Zukerman Family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson.

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