Lucid Dreaming Occurs in Activated REM Sleep, Not a Mixture of Sleep and Wakefulness.
TLDR
Lucid dreams are associated with higher-than-average levels of physiological activation during REM sleep, including measures of both subcortical and cortical activation.Abstract:
STUDY OBJECTIVES
1) To replicate the finding that lucid dreams are associated with physiological activation, including heightened REM density, during REM sleep. 2) To critically test whether a previously reported increase in frontolateral 40 Hz power in lucid REM sleep, used to justify the claim that lucid dreaming is a "hybrid state" mixing sleep and wakefulness, is attributable to the saccadic spike potential (SP) artifact as a corollary of heightened REM density. 3) To conduct an exploratory analysis of changes in EEG features during lucid REM sleep.
METHODS
We analyzed 14 signal-verified lucid dreams (SVLDs) and baseline REM sleep segments from the same REM periods from six participants derived from the Stanford SVLD database. Participants marked lucidity onset with standard left-right-left-right-center (LR2c) eye-movement signals in polysomnography recordings.
RESULTS
Compared to baseline REM sleep, lucid REM sleep had higher REM density (p=0.002). Bayesian analysis supported the null hypothesis of no differences in frontolateral 40 Hz power after removal of the SP artifact (BH=0.18) and ICA correction (BH=0.01). Compared to the entire REM sleep period, lucid REM sleep showed small reductions in low-frequency and beta band spectral power as well as increased signal complexity (all p<0.05), which were within the normal variance of baseline REM sleep.
CONCLUSIONS
Lucid dreams are associated with higher-than-average levels of physiological activation during REM sleep, including measures of both subcortical and cortical activation. Increases in 40 Hz power in periorbital channels reflect saccadic and microsaccadic SPs as a result of higher REM density accompanying heightened activation.read more
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