Lucid dreaming: Correspondence between dreamed and actual events in one subject during rem sleep
Biological Psychology June 1, 1984 Peter Fenwick, Morton Schatzman, Alan Worsley et al. 56 citations
During lucid dreaming, a subject willed movements of his fingers, toes and feet, remembered tasks, and counted sensory stimuli. Dreamed speech was related to respiration. EMG activity corresponding to dreamed actions was greater in flexor than in extensor limb muscles and was never present in axial muscles.