Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep
| Autor: | Remington Mallett, Emma Chabani, Sarah Witkowski, Jonathan B. Berent, Nathan Whitmore, Jarrod Gott, Bruce Caughran, Smaranda Leu-Semenescu, Anastasia Mangiaruga, Martin Dresler, Karen Konkoly, Jean Baptiste Maranci, Gordon Pipa, Isabelle Arnulf, Kristoffer Appel, Christopher Y. Mazurek, Frederik D. Weber, Başak Türker, Delphine Oudiette, Ken A. Paller |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Gestionnaire, Hal Sorbonne Université, Northwestern University [Evanston], Universität Osnabrück - Osnabrück University, Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen], University of Bologna/Università di Bologna, University of Texas at Austin [Austin], Service de Pathologies du sommeil [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Osnabrück University, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Bologna, Service des Pathologies du sommeil [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière] |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Adult Male Adolescent Research Subjects media_common.quotation_subject Polysomnography [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] Stress-related disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 13] Sleep REM Biology consciousness Lucid dream General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences Researcher-Subject Relations Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center two-way communication Perception 130 000 Cognitive Neurology & Memory medicine Humans sleep mentation lucid dream Dream sensory processing sleep learning targeted memory reactivation Sleep-learning media_common Forgetting Communication dreams Cognition medicine.disease Research Personnel [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] 030104 developmental biology Female REM sleep interactive dreaming Consciousness General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Narcolepsy Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Current Biology-CB Current Biology-CB, 2021, ⟨10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.026⟩ Current Biology, 31, 7, pp. 1417-1427.e6 Current Biology, 31, 1417-1427.e6 Current Biology-CB, Elsevier, 2021, ⟨10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.026⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0960-9822 1879-0445 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.026⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; Dreams take us to a different reality, a hallucinatory world that feels as real as any waking experience. These often-bizarre episodes are emblematic of human sleep but have yet to be adequately explained. Retrospective dream reports are subject to distortion and forgetting, presenting a fundamental challenge for neuroscientific studies of dreaming. Here we show that individuals who are asleep and in the midst of a lucid dream (aware of the fact that they are currently dreaming) can perceive questions from an experimenter and provide answers using electrophysiological signals. We implemented our procedures for two-way communication during polysomnographically verified rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep in 36 individuals. Some had minimal prior experience with lucid dreaming, others were frequent lucid dreamers, and one was a patient with narcolepsy who had frequent lucid dreams. During REM sleep, these individuals exhibited various capabilities, including performing veridical perceptual analysis of novel information, maintaining information in working memory, computing simple answers, and expressing volitional replies. Their responses included distinctive eye movements and selective facial muscle contractions, constituting correctly answered questions on 29 occasions across 6 of the individuals tested. These repeated observations of interactive dreaming, documented by four independent laboratory groups, demonstrate that phenomenological and cognitive characteristics of dreaming can be interrogated in real time. This relatively unexplored communication channel can enable a variety of practical applications and a new strategy for the empirical exploration of dreams. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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