Bizarreness of Lucid and Non-lucid Dream: Effects of Metacognition.
Frontiers in Psychology 2019 Chunyun Yu, Heyong Shen 17 citations
Dreams are usually characterized by primary consciousness, bizarreness and cognitive deficits, lacking metacognition. However, lucid dreaming (LD) is a type of consciousness state during which the dreamer is aware of the fact that he or she is dreaming, without leaving the sleeping state. Brain research has found that LD shares some common neural mechanisms with metacognition such as...