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Scientists Used Virtual Reality To Alter People’s Lucid Dreams
Sleepers reported a sense of awe and a loss of self.
The feat was achieved by exposing the quartet to a specially designed virtual reality experience in the hours before bedtime, illustrating the potential of VR to influence subconscious processes and generate lasting psychological changes. In the case of Ripple, users saw themselves as a glowing sphere of light which then moved in synchrony with other people’s “energetic bodies”, before merging with them to produce a sense of oneness between participants and facilitators. When brain activity readings indicated that the slumbering subjects had entered REM sleep, the researchers quietly played sounds from Ripple in an attempt to trigger lucid dreams resembling the VR.
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