Dr Karen Conkley

And that enables you to make a stronger conclusion about the content of the dream, specifically having a function.

Yeah, well, I just moved to the UK and I'm starting a new project about, you know, when I was running these studies, I would stay up all night long and present questions to people in lucid dreams and they would like sometimes hear them and sometimes not.

And to me, it was like this like communication across dimensions.

Like, how is it that sometimes they can perceive me and sometimes they can't, even though they're attending the whole time.

It's like this super mystery.

And so we're trying to understand why people

sleepers in general and lucid dreamers can hear you sometimes and not other times.

We are looking for some.

If anybody wants to come to Cambridge to participate in this study over the next two years.

Yeah, when you wake up in the morning, you'll, you know, I guess you'll know before you wake up, right?

Because you'll be in your dream and you'll be like, oh my gosh, this is a dream.

And if you can control it and direct your attention, influence what happens next, then you're probably lucid dreaming.

Yeah, that's an excellent, excellent activity.

About 50% of people have one at least once in their life.

Thanks so much for having me.