Lucid dreaming: A state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming

Sleep

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1191-1200

  Voss, Ursula ^a,e   Holzmann, Romain ^b   Tuin, Inka ^c   Hobson, J Allan ^d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherence; Consciousness; EEG; Lucid dreaming; REM sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DREAMING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SUGGESTION; WAKEFULNESS;

AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; DREAMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP, REM; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349259353     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/32.9.1191     Document Type: Article

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