This is a way to control lucid dream dreams at home

Once the dream can be completely controlled, it can become a business object in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall.

Dreams are often a confusing and fuzzy experience. In dreams, we are less critical, approaching real memories. Impulsive as well as increased emotions in dreams often create mild headaches when waking up in the morning.

But dreams don't always happen this way. According to Popsci, more than half of us at least once in our life experience the ability to control dreams while sleeping. Nearly 1/4 will meet lucid dream (lucid dream) once a month or more.

There are 2 important changes in the brain responsible for this state. The prefrontal cortex, which controls higher cognitive ability which is inhibited in normal dreams, is more active in lucid dreams.

The researchers also observed an increase in gamma waves, generated by conscious cognitive nerve cell groups of greater frequency.

Lucid dream allows you to control everything in your dreams.(Photo: Popsci).

Scientists are interested in how to affect the brain to control this process. Not only is the joy of controlling dreams, it is hoped that lucid dreams will give a valuable insight into how consciousness is formed within the brain.

For example, lucid dream therapy has great potential in treating people with chronic nightmares and Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD).

People with PTSD often experience repeated nightmares related to certain events that shock them. These recurring nightmares are so scary that they cause anxiety, insomnia, negative effects on daytime activities.

With lucid dreams, people with nightmares can realize that what they are experiencing is not real, then turn the nightmare into a beautiful dream.

The lucid dreams also give the opportunity to improve motor skills through enhancing brain activity. Using mental images to practice motor skills has been proven to improve the performance of sports players, doctors and musicians.

In addition, it also supports recovery of hand control functions and other motor tasks, such as patients after suffering from nervous system.

This technique works according to the principle of imaginative creation, then activating the activation of related neurological structures, like people are actually doing it, is only different in that the body is not moving.

Nightmare is the source of many diseases.(Photo: Shutterstock).

Many different techniques have been developed and tested to create lucid dreams in recent years, but there are no reliable and successful techniques in every individual.

This does not mean these techniques are useless. Some techniques are very potential, although most are still in the early stages. Here are the most potential techniques, most can be tried at home.

The first is the type of cognitive technique, including activities done in the morning or during sleep. According to a University of Adelaide study, 169 Australians participated, a combination of the three most successful lucid dreaming techniques: real experimentation, Mnemonic Indtion Lucid Dreaming (reminiscent of lucid dreaming. ) and Wake-Back-to-Bed.

The actual test method involves constantly asking yourself while alerting whether you are dreaming or not, and doing a self-test action. The famous Inception movie references this technique with a way of verifying a crop, which will often stop spinning but if you are in a dream it will turn forever.

If you do not like to keep a crop in your pocket, you can squeeze your nose yourself to see if you can breathe. Repeating the act of "wondering if you are dreaming" throughout the day helps deepen the subconscious mind as a habit.

When truly dreaming, the subconscious, which is not much influenced by consciousness, will give you a similar habit. If you can still breathe, then you will realize that you are dreaming and controlling your dreams.

In the Mnemonic Indjection Lucid Dream (MILD) technique , people imagine a dream and repeat the mantra to express their intention, such as: "The next time I dream, I want to remember that I am dreaming".

For best results, Wake-Back-To-Bed (WBTB) should be performed . Specifically, set the alarm clock an hour or two ahead of normal wake time. After waking up for a few minutes, trying to sleep again, it's more likely you will have a lucid dream.

A brief awakening for a few minutes is thought to increase activation of the cortex in important brain regions associated with lucid dreaming when a person returns to sleep at a rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep when the brain is active and dreams appear.

The students set the phone alarm every morning to press the skip button, and to let the phone ring again and again, it is easy to have a lucid dream.

The rapid eye movement hypnosis diagram has gradually increased duration after each sleep cycle.(Photo: Wikimedia Commons).

As shown above, you can see a lucid dream often appearing around 4:30 am to 5 am. If later, you can wake up. If sooner, you can lose control of your dream and sink back into a deep sleep state.

Recent research shows that drug interventions can keep sleep longer to facilitate lucid dreams to occur. For example, galantamine, an enzyme inhibitor commonly used to treat Alzheimer's disease, has been shown to significantly increase the lucid dream experience when used in conjunction with WBTB and MILD techniques. . However, the side effects of drugs still have to be considered.

Our understanding of lucid dreams has improved significantly over the past decade. There is still a lot to do before the dream becomes a business object in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall.