Lucid dreaming

Biologist Dr. Doping says about sleep mechanisms, psychotherapy and dream control techniques.

When they began to study lucid dreaming? How a person experiences a dream? How to use dream control techniques for psychotherapy? And whether lucid dreaming be dangerous?

Lucid dreaming is a phenomenon that was discovered in any case described in the literature, in the XIX century. There have been several attempts of different people who claimed that they have learned to manage their own dreams. This phenomenon has become more famous since the time of Carlos Castaneda magician who created an entire school and methodology to manage their own dreams. However, it took a scientific character only when American psychologist Stephen LaBerge at the end of the 50s went on training for this magician and studied this phenomenon from a scientific point of view, and saw that it was not a hoax and is not the focus, it really is, and produced a device that allows you to use feedback to learn this very quickly.

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Studies have shown that lucid dreaming - a special form of altered consciousness, is not identical with dreams. That is, if you keep practicing this state, you are depriving yourself of normal sleep with dreams, and what is the reason, what this means, we can not fully understand, but it is clear that there is nothing good about it. Thus, it was shown that this is a very interesting model for a whole range of things that it should be further study, it can be practiced under certain circumstances, in particular the victims of terrorist attacks, accidents, post-traumatic syndrome, which is also now being intensively studied, but against recommendations of this technique normal healthy people to experience unusual sensations during sleep is very psycho-neurologists object.

Status rapid or REM sleep - a special state, it is associated with a totally unusual work normal brain mechanisms. This made a very strong activation of the brain. This leads to the fact that we can not perceive anything outside, it remains intact, we do not wake up, we are not running any vision or hearing, is completely off the muscular system, that is, it is turned off is active - from the brain come strong signals on the dorsal brain, inhibiting the activity of all muscle man.