Controlling Your Own DreamsTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 958, Segment 3
Dec 5, 2018 • 16m
Guest: Deirdre Barrett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard
Have you ever been in the middle of what you thought was reality and then suddenly become conscious that it was really a dream? Lucid dreaming moments are not uncommon. And researchers are now working on a device that aims to use advanced sleep tracking techniques and light and audio signals to artificially stimulate a lucid dream. Can lucid dreaming be controlled and directed? And to what end?