Jesse Rogerson

They did like breathing, specific type of breathing through their nose.

So they were lucid dreaming and signaling to the researchers, okay, I know I'm lucid dreaming now, and I'm going to start working on the problem associated with this puzzle.

And so they did this.

And then they all came out of their dreams and woke up in the morning, and then they went back and did the puzzles again.

And they found that for the music that was played to them, for the half of the puzzles, they had a 42% chance of solving it versus 17% for the other half.

A market increase, a 20% increase roughly that...

shows that when they were induced to think about the problem while they were sleeping, they were able to actually make strides on solving it.

Some of them even described it as like they had a dream where they had a person in their dream where they asked that person in their dream to help them with the puzzle that they were presented during the study.

It blows my mind that we can, I guess to use your words, to like hack the brain to take advantage of what we're doing at night.

And what I'm really interested in is how does this affect your REM sleep?

Does this make your REM sleep not as good?

Do you need to be not working on puzzles while you, or is this what REM sleep is for?

When you get deep down into the sleep, your brain works on things and works through problems, not brain teasers, but things that are going on in your life.

This is wild.

Yeah, it's wild.

I agree.

Yeah.

So, no.

So that's the thing, right?

So they're using this thing called targeted memory reactivation.