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Message Subject Experts in Lucid Dreaming: A Question
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lucid dreaming comes and goes ... not sure what causes them, perhaps hormones ... it is a very enjoyable experience, non the less - sights, sounds and vivid colors ... even smell and touch ... soooo real and memorable

but I do know what will increase your chances of lucid dreaming... and that is Krill oil (capsules) ... take three or more at bedtime and ... waalaaa Lucid Dreams on demand
 Quoting: Shadow Dance


Lucid or self-aware dreaming emerges when there is activity in the prefrontal cortex during sleep. The first empirical evidence emerged with Dr. Keith Hern and Dr. Stephan LaBerge's research in the late 1970s with eye movements.

What they did is had people when they achieved lucidity in a dream look left and right, left and right which caused their physical eyes to move left and right, left and right. Then researchers started to connect lucid dreamers to PET/EEG monitors and started seeing the activity in the prefrontal cortex when a person was lucid which gave even more emperical evidence. Then along came fMRI which could give detailed brain imaging and showed a dramatic increase in prefrontal cortex activity during sleep with lucid dreaming. It's this research that also lead to a lot of understanding of brain neurology with dreaming and what was different between lucid dreamers and non-lucid dreamers. Which gives us this study.
[link to www.researchgate.net (secure)]

And this study.
[link to www.nature.com (secure)]

From the second study they discovered people who lucid dream more have increased white matter and grey matter density in the prefrontal cortex.

"We additionally evaluated average gray matter density between groups in the two regions of prefrontal cortex and bilateral hippocampus observed by ref.30 to show increases in a “high lucidity” group."

This means more neurons developed for lucid dreaming along with neural pathways. This pattern of white matter and grey matter density shows up in many of the regions of the brain that involve aspects of the dream experience including dream recall.

The correlate between our neurology and our dreams is pretty much covered now since fMRI started to map out the dreaming mind and neuroscientists are starting to see that dreaming is linked to a more developed dreaming mind in those people who frequently dream.

LaBerge's lucidity techniques have been the staple for most people who want to learn how to have them and most of the generic dream guru's out there rebrand his techniques because they are effective. I also present some of his techniques because they work, but make sure he's cited and credited as I greatly respect his contribution to this fun art.

We can actively become lucid in our dreams but it is a skill, and we do develop neurologically along with the skill as we do any skill we learn. This is why I cringe at all the lucid dream in 3 easy steps and all the supplementation advice because dreaming really is an active skill of learning how to dream and the reason why we call it a dream practice, is because it takes practice to become skilled at it.

Where I differ from most is the link to neural pathway development and stunted dream development based on my own practice and having read literally every study on dreaming spanning decades thanks to friends who are dream researchers that send me papers frequently and being a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

I go with stimulation training to address all the deficiencies in cognition with stunted dream development including awareness which as people are finding out becomes very efficient and builds up a long-term dream practice.

Too many people think that just taking a pill is going to help us develop our ability to dream. Sure it might stimulate certain regions of our brain activating aspects of it during sleep but that doesn't mean we will start to develop neural pathway density and neural density as a result of a stimulant. That comes with repetition over time.

Now we are getting into dream incubation devices like the one from MIT which is great, but does that address deficiencies in those who have memory issues, or problems with sensory-replay, or even lucidity? I think it's helpful but there is so much more to our development as a dreamer that often gets overlooked.

for me it's like working out at the gym, if I practice and maintain it, it's there. If I slack off it starts to degrade just like if I stop going to the gym because we have atrophy in these regions that also gets overlooked.

Just train the brain for dreaming and it will evolve with you as you work on it through participation in our already existing 3-5 dreams.
 
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