Humans can achieve conscious awareness while dreaming

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Scientific literature confirms that humans can achieve conscious awareness while dreaming, a phenomenon widely studied as lucid dreaming.

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The retrieved papers include multiple reviews and cognitive neuroscience studies dedicated to lucid dreaming (e.g., Voss et al., 2019; Dresler et al., 2019), which is defined precisely as the state of achieving conscious awareness during ongoing sleep. The evidence strongly supports the claim without significant contradiction in the provided literature.

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The Functional Role of Dreaming in Emotional Processes.

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Scarpelli S, Bartolacci C, D'Atri A, Gorgoni M, De Gennaro L. The Functional Role of Dreaming in Emotional Processes.. 2019. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00459

Discusses gamma activity and its relation to emotional processes, dream recall, and specifically lucid dreams.

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The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming.

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Baird B, Mota-Rolim SA, Dresler M. The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming.. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.03.008

Defines lucid dreaming as the phenomenon of becoming aware that one is dreaming during ongoing sleep and notes it has been physiologically validated.

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Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming.

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Simor P, Bogdány T, Peigneux P. Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming.. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2123418119

Proposes a multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming, describing it as a mental state in which individuals realize they are dreaming while asleep.

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judged → SUPPORTED · 8801 Aug 2026

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