Jesse Rogerson

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

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 I...

lucid dreaming is completely out of my reach i'm not in control i don't even really dream that much like or dream that detailed uh the idea that you can know you're dreaming and then can take control of your dream and and like actively do things in your dream that's wild and a really cool thing so they took these these 20 people who had experience doing that and they got them to do some brain teasers uh so they had a bunch of puzzles they had 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.

So just half of the ones.

Okay.

I'm with you.

And then...

The question was, could these lucid dreamers, when hearing the music in their sleep, then start thinking about the puzzle that was attached to that music and try and work on it?

And this is where it started blowing my mind because they even had pre-assigned signals.

So the sleepers in REM sleep

were in their lucid dream, and then signaled to the researchers outside of the dream that I'm now currently working on the problem.