At one time, the idea of communicating with people while they were dreaming would have been regarded by most scientists as hokey New Age stuff. But now a research group has done it:
What people can do during lucid dreams was unexpected:
“Overall, the researchers found that it was possible for people while dreaming to follow instructions, do simple math, answer yes-or-no questions, or tell the difference between different sensory stimuli. They could respond using eye movements or by contracting facial muscles. The researchers refer to it as “interactive dreaming.” – Cell Press, “Real-time Dialogue with A Dreaming Person is Possible” At Sciencedaily (February 18, 2021) the Paper is Open Access.”
The researchers hope that their find will help people who must cope with nightmares or other sleep disorders.
News, “Yes, we can communicate with people when they are dreaming” at Mind Matters News
Later, they hope subjects will describe dreams so they can check whether recall after the fact matches descriptions in real time.
See also: Your soul has no Off switch: A major modern misunderstanding of the human mind is to assume that it is like a machine with an “on” and an “off” switch. (Michael Egnor)
Could the FBI obtain someone’s phone password while they were asleep? It might be more effective than torturing them but not as much fun I guess.
Nothing new about this. When sleep is in a mode with the audio channel partly open, external words enter dreams. The tricky part is that the dream scripter re-interprets the words to fit the narrative of the running dream.
http://polistrasmill.blogspot......cript.html
Incidentally, the article itself is HORRIBLE. The sleeping person is being strangled by a muzzle because muzzles are in fashion this year.
Before 2020 this would have failed all university ethics committees, and the picture would become infamous in the same way as the Milgram experiment.
Imagine the proposal being reviewed in 2019: “We will allow subjects to sleep in our lab while we try to communicate with them during dreams. And we will strangle them with muzzles while sleeping, which has nothing to do with the experiment except that we insist everyone should be strangled at all times.”
Milgram. Hitler.
Babylon bee hinted at reality of dreams here
https://babylonbee.com/news/man-forced-to-apologize-for-whatever-he-did-in-wifes-dream-last-night
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