| Self-Awareness Activates Particular Brain Centers |
| Meditators show similar activation. References: "Neural Correlates of Dream Lucidity Obtained from Contrasting Lucid versus Non-Lucid REM Sleep: A Combined EEG/fMRI Case Study"; Martin Dresler, Renate Wehrle, Victor I. Spoormaker, Stefan P. Koch, Florian Holsboer, Axel Steiger, Hellmuth Obrig, Philipp G. Sämann, Michael Czisch; SLEEP July 2012, 35(7): 1017-1020; DOI: 10.5665/sleep.1974; Link to Abstract. Additional source: Max Planck Society. |
| CATHARINE PADDOCK PHD - Medical News Today |
| Scientists in Germany have found which centers of the brain become active when we are aware of ourselves, the so-called state of "metaconsciousness". Their study, which appears online in the July issue of SLEEP, is the first to show visible evidence of the neural networks that underpin the human conscious state. They identified them by comparing brain scans of a volunteer during "lucid dream" episodes, to brain scans taken during normal dream states. The areas they pinpointed as the seat of meta-consciousness belong to a network in the outer layer (cortical) of the brain that includes the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the frontopolar regions and the precuneus. Some people can have episodes of self-awareness while they sleep and dream. These "lucid dreamers" are aware that they are dreaming, and are also able to control their dreams. During lucid dreaming episodes they can access their memories, perform actions ... |
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Do blind people dream?
Answer seems to be that we dream based upon our experiences.
So a person blind from birth does not dream images, but has auditory dreams. A person blind sometime after birth dreams partly based on images recalled before, and apparently partly from auditory stimuli after blindness. A person becoming blind when her/his mother is 30, always has a visually 30-year-old Mom.
Thank you again, Clarke.