WaspReporter/Your wildest dreams/H5

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Your wildest dreams 

WASP Reporter /H5

• Listen to the text on pages 18 and 19. 
• Underline/ highlight important information in every paragraph. 
• Do assignment 51

What do people claim they can do whilst lucid dreaming?

1. teleporting
2. improving real life skills
3. take control
4. interact in another environment

What has been measured through fMRI scans?

1. brain waves
2. muscle tissue
3. hand gestures
4. blood low

What percentage of the population can dream lucid?

1. 20 - 30 %
2. less than 20 %
3. 30 -40 %
4. less than 15 %

What is Walker's idea about these numbers?

7 reasons why we dream

1. Who are lucid dreamers? 

2. Why is it so problematic for scientists to research why and how we dream (according to Dr Paller)? 

3. Which scientific breakthrough was published in the journal Current Biology? 

4. When do we possibly become lucid (according to Dr Baird)? 

5. What is REM sleep?

6. How could scientists exploit the residual conscious awareness? Describe the experiment of Konkoly and Paller (lines 80 to 112)?

7. How did Konkoly and Paller create a situation of 'interactive dreaming'? 

8.What might be the benefits of lucid dreaming? 

9. What was  Dr Erlacher's finding?

10. What are some of the ethical issues? 

10. Mention the crucial ethical issue related to the lucid dreaming research. 

11. Why did scientists publish an op-ed warning related to the lucid dreaming research?