What happens in the brain during a lucid dream:
“The difference in cognition between the two types of dreaming suggests that lucid dreaming occurs when the frontal parts of the sleeper’s brain — which are normally “off-line” during REM sleep — click back in, bringing back self-consciousness. However, the back parts, which process sensations, are not synced up with the wide awake frontal cortex. So instead of taking in information from the outside world, they remain closed off in the word of the dream, creating a virtual world as convincing as the one outside.”
The Huffington Post – By Rayleigh Ping-Ying Chiang, M.D., Shu-Hui Tsai, Ph.D., Rita Carter (The Huffington Post, 02/05/2014)
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