Lucid dreaming- when you are aware of dreaming- is a state between sleeping and being awake. It creates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the brain similar to the patterns made by psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia.

The links between lucid dreaming and psychotic conditions offers potential for new therapeutic routes based on how healthy dreaming differs from unstable mental states.

New data affirms the connection by showing that, while dreaming lucidly, the brain is in a dissociated state, according to Ursula Voss from the University of Frankfurt.

Silvio scarone, of universita degli studi di milano in Milan, said, “Neuroscience investigators could explore how to extend their work to psychiatric conditions, using approaches from sleep research to interpret data from acute psychotic and dissociated states of the brain-mind. Exposure to real threatening events supposedly activates the dream system, so that it produces simulations that are realistic rehearsals of threatening events in terms of perception and behaviour”.

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