New research has opened windows of connections between the waking world and dreamers.
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Dream researcher Başak Türker explains how she was able to communicate with people while they were dreaming. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
In 1981, Keith Hearne and Stephen Laberge asked dreamers to send “telegrams” to the outside world. More than 30 years later, scientists continue to blaze trails to communicate with the sleeping mind.
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Some dreamers were able to distinguish real words from invented ones by smiling or frowning.
A comparison of dreams shows they play out much differently across various socio-cultural environments.
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Dreaming differs across cultures, and these differences may hold the clue to how and why dreaming evolved for humans and other species.