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Scientists Measure Dream Content for the First Time
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Adjective: | 1. Expressed clearly; easy to understand: “a clear and lucid style”. 2. Showing ability to think clearly, esp. in the intervals between periods of confusion or insanity. |
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1) Q. Can scientist measure anyone’s dream content?
A. NO only lucid dreamers, People who become aware of their dreaming state and are able to alter the content of their dreams.
2) Q. What did the scientists find?
A. The scientists measured that the brain activity during the dreamed motion matched the one observed during a real executed movement in a state of wakefulness.
3) Q. Who wrote this article?
A. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
4) Q. Where do they do there research?
A. The Charité hospital in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
5) Q. What exactly did they measure?
A. we can measure not only simple movements during sleep but also the activity patterns in the brain during visual dream perceptions,” says Martin Dresler, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry.
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INTRODUCTION II. (Reveal Topic) A dream is amazing and the way one interprets it depends on who is having the dream. III. (Credibility Statement)I have done a lot of research on the topic of Dream Interpretation and find that it varies from person to person. Some believe that a dream stems from a collaboration of your everyday experiences and past memories. Whereas others believe it is the brains ...
This article relates to my life because i have always wondered if any one can see or know if or when you are dreaming and finaly they have measured dream content for the first time. I also look forward to seeing if they can watch what our dreaming.
Why do humans dream and do animals dream?
“Scientists Measure Dream Content for the First Time: Dreams Activate the Brain in a Similar Way to Real Actions.” Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology. Web. 01 Nov. 2011. .
Scientists Measure Dream Content for the First Time: Dreams Activate the Brain in a Similar Way to Real Actions
ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2011) — The ability to dream is a fascinating aspect of the human mind. However, how the images and emotions that we experience so intensively when we dream form in our heads remains a mystery. Up to now it has not been possible to measure dream content. Max Planck scientists working with colleagues from the Charité hospital in Berlin have now succeeded, for the first time, in analysing the activity of the brain during dreaming.
They were able to do this with the help of lucid dreamers, i.e. people who become aware of their dreaming state and are able to alter the content of their dreams. The scientists measured that the brain activity during the dreamed motion matched the one observed during a real executed movement in a state of wakefulness.
The research is published in the journal Current Biology.
Methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging have enabled scientists to visualise and identify the precise spatial location of brain activity during sleep. However, up to now, researchers have not been able to analyse specific brain activity associated with dream content, as measured brain activity can only be traced back to a specific dream if the precise temporal coincidence of the dream content and measurement is known. Whether a person is dreaming is something that could only be reported by the individual himself.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, the Charité hospital in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig availed of the ability of lucid dreamers to dream consciously for their research. Lucid dreamers were asked to become aware of their dream while sleeping in a magnetic resonance scanner and to report this “lucid” state to the researchers by means of eye movements. They were then asked to voluntarily “dream” that they were repeatedly clenching first their right fist and then their left one for ten seconds.
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This enabled the scientists to measure the entry into REM sleep — a phase in which dreams are perceived particularly intensively — with the help of the subject’s electroencephalogram (EEG) and to detect the beginning of a lucid phase. The brain activity measured from this time onwards corresponded with the arranged “dream” involving the fist clenching. A region in the sensorimotor cortex of the brain, which is responsible for the execution of movements, was actually activated during the dream. This is directly comparable with the brain activity that arises when the hand is moved while the person is awake. Even if the lucid dreamer just imagines the hand movement while awake, the sensorimotor cortex reacts in a similar way.
