Extending mental practice to sleep: Enhancing motor skills through lucid dreaming
Medical Hypotheses March 27, 2023 Emma Peters, Sanne Golembiewski, Daniel Erlacher et al. 12 citations
Improving motor performance without physical movements might seem counterintuitive, however, decades of research on mental practice have demonstrated its feasibility. The phenomenon of lucid dreaming – i.e. becoming aware of the current dream state during ongoing sleep – bears some resemblance to mental practice: behaviors such as motor tasks can be intentionally simulated with mental imagery....