Lucid Dreaming Informative Speech

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So what is lucid dream? here is a brief definition: when you are dreaming, you realize you are dreaming but you don’t have to wake-up, instead, you can have some control over your dream, you can decide what you gonna do during the dream.
Lucid dreaming has many potential benefits such as treatment for nightmares and improvement of physical skills and abilities through rehearsal in the lucid dream environment.

How to achieve lucid dreaming?
There is a set of tech and tips to help maximize the probability of having a lucid dream, where you can easily find it on the internet, I will not go deep to it today, but I can tell you that these techs are all used to practice your self-awareness and metacognition skills.

Why am I introducing it ? because this is related to the discovery: through the study of lucid dreaming, scientists discovered that these two skills have some relationship at neural level and they also found the part of the brain that enables both skills. By concluding this, researchers put volunteers into different groups based on their lucid dreaming level.Through performing the structural and functional MRI scans, they found that higher lucid dreamers have a greater volume of anterior prefrontal cortexes which is the region of the brain that controls conscious cognitive processes (known as metacognition) and also crucial for our self-reflection ability. Through the study they found high level lucid dreamers had larger anterior prefrontal cortexes and …show more content…

They performed structural and functional MRI scans on them, then the researchers found that higher lucid dreamers have a greater volume of anterior prefrontal cortex, they also had more brain activity happening in that region while they are solving waking self-awareness

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