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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dresler, Martin
• Wehrle, Renate
• Spoormaker, Victor I
• Koch, Stefan P
• Holsboer, Florian
• Steiger, Axel
• Obrig, Hellmuth
• Sämann, Philipp G
• Czisch, Michael

Titel

Neural correlates of dream lucidity obtained from contrasting lucid versus non-lucid REM sleep: a combined EEG/fMRI case study

Ist Teil von

• Sleep (New York, N.Y.), 2012-07, Vol.35 (7), p.1017-1020

Ort / Verlag

United States: Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To investigate the neural correlates of lucid dreaming. Parallel EEG/fMRI recordings of night sleep. Sleep laboratory and fMRI facilities. Four experienced lucid dreamers. N/A. Out of 4 participants, one subject had 2 episodes of verified lucid REM sleep of sufficient length to be analyzed by fMRI. During lucid dreaming the bilateral precuneus, cuneus, parietal lobules, and prefrontal and occipito-temporal cortices activated strongly as compared with non-lucid REM sleep. In line with recent EEG data, lucid dreaming was associated with a reactivation of areas which are normally deactivated during REM sleep. This pattern of activity can explain the recovery of reflective cognitive capabilities that are the hallmark of lucid dreaming.