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The Real Avatar: Swiss Researchers Use Virtual Reality and Brain Imaging to Hunt for the Science of the Self

Posted on by Marjorie Kaye Noble

Accessed from Science News:

Science Daily Article –Feb. 18, 2011

Material from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne via Eureka Alert

That feeling of being in, and owning, your own body is a fundamental human experience. But where does it originate and how does it come to be? Now, Professor Olaf Blanke, a neurologist with the Brain Mind Institute at EPFL and the Department of Neurology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, announces an important step in decoding the phenomenon. By combining techniques from cognitive science with those of Virtual Reality (VR) and brain imaging, he and his team are narrowing in on the first experimental, data-driven approach to understanding self-consciousness.

Entire Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110217124901.htm

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Dream a Little Lucid Dream

Posted on by Marjorie Kaye Noble

Dreams Communication using the Internet

Daniel Oldis, whose seminal work in the science of lucid dreams is widely quoted in academic circles writes an introduction to his acclaimed Lucid Dream Manifesto in which he suggests that a lucid dreamer can signal another dreamer using dream masks and the internet.

Check out”Sleep Stream Online” a sleep lab that is studying sleep patterns with the goal of identifying when lucid dreaming is in progress. “Brian” an engineering student at Cornell, is using “Zeo” an easily worn device that records sleep patterns and sends the data to the sleepstream program. The goal is to synchronize lucid dreamers and explore ways to communicate dreamer to dreamer. This study is inspired by Oldis’ writings. Here’s the link:

http://www.sleepstreamonline.com/

The Science of Lucid Dreams

http://www.amazon.com/Inception-Conscious-Lucid-Dreams-ebook/dp/B003VD21RS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1279766830&sr=1-1