Dr. Başak Türker

It's not all the time, but it looks like there are some transient windows of opening, let's say, in which participants respond and then they stop responding.

Yes.

So if you are lucid dreaming, you tend to respond way more.

When you're lucid, in our study, what we see is that your brain activity is more complex, more rich and more rapid compared to when they were not lucid.

Exactly.

It's like rich, but not so rich.

In a dream, you might have your mom that transforms to a cat and you wouldn't be shocked.

You'd be like, oh yeah, my mom's a cat now, it's okay.

It's because probably your frontal cortex is a bit deactivated so you don't get shocked by this.

which allows you to detect anomalies in your dream and be like, oh, this is a dream because this doesn't make sense.

This wouldn't happen in everyday life.

state for the brain to maintain you know it almost like wants to tend towards either just waking up or falling into non-lucidity so maybe it's a way your brain to get back to this you know it's natural state but yeah i don't know that's that's very insane that your dream characters would tell you this is life exactly it's completely insane okay our next question