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Dr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State

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REM Sleep and PGO Waves

I worry a little bit about lucid dreaming because we know so little about what's actually going on in the brain. It might be that those people who could lucid dream really well, whether they spend more or less time in this asymmetrical state where one area of the brain is in one state and another areas are in another. And if this lucid dreaming state is preventing us from, for example, from calming down, or the serotonergic system silencing like it does during REM sleep? So maybe one of the reasons why most of people don't remember their dreams is for good reason. On the other hand, let me just argue myself out of this right now when I have a repeated nightmare

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