Even though sleeping is a way of escaping from fatigue, reality and events, some people want to use their dreams as a tool during sleep and create a different realm for themselves. Although this issue may seem like a utopian, even dystopian request, it can actually be the subject of movies and stories for many years. But did you know that this is a reality?
While trying to control everything in the realities of life is exhausting on its own, would you like to continue this in your dreams? Our lives are not Inceptions, of course Christopher Nolan didn’t write our script. Dream types called Lucidity arouse curiosity by controlling your dreams as in real life. As a result of their research, scientists discovered a method that can trigger lucid dreams.
The new method has succeeded:
Building on their previous research, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Lucidity Institute in Hawaii decided to investigate how chemicals called acetylcholinesterase inhibitors might trigger lucid dreaming. In this process; The neurotransmitter acetylcholine has been found to help regulate REM sleep (the dreaming phase of sleep). The drug, galantamine, which is used to treat memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease, was therefore tested by researchers on 121 participants who had an interest in or education about lucid dreams.
Participants received drug doses for three consecutive nights, starting with placebo, 4 mg, and increasing to 8 mg on the last night. They practiced dream-initiation techniques, waking up 4.5 hours after the lights were off each night, and then falling asleep again after swallowing their capsules. 14 percent of respondents reported that lucid dreaming occurred. However, this result increased to 27 percent when 4 mg was consumed and 42 percent with 8 mg. As a result of research and experimentation, the combination of an induction technique paired with an Alzheimer’s drug was found to help trigger Lucid dreams.
“This new method has the success rate we need to finally be able to properly research lucid dreaming,” Denholm Aspy, a psychologist at Australia’s University of Adelaide, told New Scientist.
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