Jesse Rogerson

And how do you test that?

Like, how do you actually design an experiment that can effectively measure that question?

And so the experiment they came up with is they had these 20 participants.

All of the 20 participants, by the way, had experience with lucid dreaming.

Have you ever, do you ever lucid dream?

Is that something you can do?

So this fly, not to make the pun, but it flies over my head because lucid dreaming is completely out of my reach.

I'm not in control.

I don't even really dream that much or dream that detailed.

The idea that you can know you're dreaming and then can take control of your dream and like actively do things in your dream, that's wild and a really cool thing.

So they took these 20 people who had experience doing that and they got them to do some brain teasers.

So they had a bunch of puzzles.

They had three minutes to do each puzzle.

And then all the puzzles, by the way, were very difficult.

Most of them weren't solved.

So in those three minutes, they probably didn't solve that puzzle.

And during each of those three minutes, where they had three minutes to work on one puzzle, they played a very specific soundtrack, a very specific music.

Then, all these participants, after completing this, spent the night at the clinic.

They fell asleep and they made sure they had various vitals and stuff to make sure that they were fully asleep in their REM sleep.

And then while those participants were in their REM sleep, they played back the music that was being played for half of the puzzles.