> -----Original Message----- > > I waited to allow someone else to come up with this one. We have no > scientific means to allow people to tell if they are > dreaming, even though > dreams have been studied for thousands of years. We have > means to see if > other people are dreaming, but we have no means of someone > telling if (s)he is dreaming.
Do you mean for a person who is dreaming to know that they are dreaming or for another person to know that the first person is dreaming? If you mean the first, what about lucid dreaming? Way back in college, I took a class on sleep and dreaming. As part of that class I did a term paper on lucid dreaming. It was very interesting and made me wish that I could have lucid dreams. If you mean the second, there are the rapid eye movements. If you are having REM, you are dreaming. Also, for that same paper, I came across some research that tried to have lucid dreamers communicate that they were dreaming *while* they were dreaming. The dreamer would, once they realized they were dreaming, "look" left and right in a certain pattern. The researchers would record the eye movements and try to find the pattern. I believe there were some successes. - jmh _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
