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A lucid dream is one in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. They are able to exert some or a complete control over the dream's characters, narrative and/or environment. Early references to the phenomenon are found in ancient Greek texts.
The capacity to have lucid dreams is a trainable cognitive skill. [1] During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of volitional control over the dream characters, narrative, or environment, although this control of dream content is not the salient feature of lucid dreaming.
In internet culture, brain rot (or brainrot) describes internet content deemed to be of low quality or value, or the supposed negative psychological and cognitive effects caused by it. [1] The term also more broadly refers to the deleterious effects associated with excessive use of digital media in general, especially short-form entertainment ...
A little over half the population has experienced a lucid dream at least once in their lives, according to a 2017 study, and about 20 percent of individuals experience lucid dreams at least once a ...
People who spend a lot of time on social media have noticed that the online world is increasingly creeping into the physical world. They’re attributing the phenomenon to “brain rot.”
Research into dreams includes exploration of the mechanisms of dreaming, the influences on dreaming, and disorders linked to dreaming. Work in oneirology overlaps with neurology and can vary from quantifying dreams to analyzing brain waves during dreaming, to studying the effects of drugs and neurotransmitters on sleeping or dreaming.
He devised the reflection technique for inducing lucid dreams, consisting in continuously suspecting waking life to be a dream, in the hope that such a habit would manifest itself during dreams. Tholey's research included the examination of the cognitive abilities of dreamers, as well as the cognitive abilities of dream figures .
Attracting "a 'rainbow coalition' of scientists, scholars, therapists, cultural practitioners, artists, and the general public", [8] the organization publishes scientific research across all dream-related subjects, including dreams in analytical psychology, oneirology, dreamwork, oneiromancy, and lucid dreaming via its: