Using Real-time Reporting to Investigate Visual Experiences in Dreams.

ABSTRACT: Neuroscientific investigations of human dreaming have been hampered by reliance on dream recall after awakening. For example, a challenge of associating EEG features with post-waking dream reports is that they are subject to distortion, forgetting, and poor temporal precision. In this study, we used real-time reporting to investigate whether one of the most robust features of the waking visual system, increased alpha oscillations upon closing one's eyes, also applies when people dream of closing their eyes. We studied 13 people, four with narcolepsy and nine without, who experienced many lucid dreams-they were aware they were dreaming while remaining asleep. They reported on both their dream experiences (visual percepts present/absent) and dream-eyelid status (open/closed) using a novel co

SUBMITTER: Konkoly KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12829888 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature