{"id":52383,"date":"2017-04-20T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/neuroscientists-can-now-read-your-dreams-with-a-simple-brain-scan"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:24:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:24:17","slug":"neuroscientists-can-now-read-your-dreams-with-a-simple-brain-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/neuroscientists-can-now-read-your-dreams-with-a-simple-brain-scan","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists Can Now Read Your Dreams With a Simple Brain Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-can-now-read-your-dreams-with-a-simple-brain-scan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like islands jutting out of a smooth ocean surface, dreams puncture our sleep with disjointed episodes of consciousness. How states of awareness emerge from a sleeping brain has long baffled scientists and philosophers alike.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists have associated dreaming with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a sleep stage in which the resting brain paradoxically generates high-frequency brain waves that closely resemble those of when we\u2019re awake.<\/p>\n<p>Yet dreaming isn\u2019t exclusive to REM sleep. A series of oddball reports also found signs of dreaming during non-REM deep sleep, when the brain is dominated by slow-wave activity\u2014the opposite of an alert, active, conscious brain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/04\/19\/neuroscientists-can-now-read-your-dreams-with-a-simple-brain-scan\/?utm_content=buffer15862&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-su&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/04\/19\/neuroscientists-can-no...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like islands jutting out of a smooth ocean surface, dreams puncture our sleep with disjointed episodes of consciousness. How states of awareness emerge from a sleeping brain has long baffled scientists and philosophers alike. For decades, scientists have associated dreaming with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a sleep stage in which the resting brain paradoxically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}