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Re:Scientists talked to people in their lucid dreams by bongoman37 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:00AM (#26326179)
It is interesting to me that this is the first time someone has done this in a lab setting. I have lucid dreams and I talk in my sleep a fair amount as well. I used to be a somnambulist as a kid as well, though haven't done that in a long time though I will still kick out occasionally in my dreams.

I have had reasonably long conversations in my sleep. When I was living in the dorms once my roommates were solving a physics problem and I answered several parts correctly leading them to the solution though on waking up I knew I had some conversation but no recollection of the actual problem they were solving. My wife often says I am funny to talk to when I am talking in sleep as in the answers can be wildly creative but getting information out is usually impossible, as in if she asks me a password or something I will deflect rather than give an answer.

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Re:Scientists talked to people in their lucid dreams by frongpik on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:12AM (#26326242)
Let them ask you "who are you?" and "what's your name?"
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Re:Scientists talked to people in their lucid dreams by emteycz on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:38AM (#26326390)
I know the answers, but can't really drive my attention. So I might say that I am a train occasionally... But then I'm able to correct myself sometimes!

(All of this is absolutely out of my memory, you have to trust my girlfriend)

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Re:Scientists talked to people in their lucid dreams by jbotz on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:28PM (#26331617)
My wife is a lucid dreamer, and once there was smoke in her dream and while dreaming she was worried that maybe there was a fire in "the real world", so she called me out loud asked if I smelled smoke... her voice came out strangely muffled, and her closed eyes were doing the REM thing, so I knew that she was dreaming. I told her that there was no smoke and she relaxed and continued dreaming.

So yes, we've had first hand experience that communication between a lucid dreamer and a waking person is possible.

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