![]() “Pure creation.” Lucid dreaming was the inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, even if much of the film’s depiction of dreams is fantasy. In breakthrough research across four labs in 2021, dreamers could even answer questions posed by scientists in real-time while machines monitored their sleep.īut how can you be both asleep and awake at once? What can lucid dreaming tell us about the brain and the nature of consciousness? Can you induce it? Or does it always start unexpectedly with rogue tigers and a garden party? Since an eccentric English aristocrat named Mary Arnold-Forster chronicled her own lucid dreaming adventures during WWI (including teaching herself to “fly”), scientists have been giving this phenomenon serious study. This dream isn’t unfolding around me as usual. Hell, I can send Grandma on a long holiday. I can build that fence, clear up our dubious permits. The strange thing is that when I wake, I don’t wake up in my bed. Calls to contractors to build a fence, debating the best diet for baby tigers with my grandmother who keeps materialising to tell me she’s vegan now. In the morning, I’ll remember all of this, the stress – and the tedium too. No matter how frantically I run around herding the cubs back inside or how insistently I call for help from the other guests of this ill-conceived wildlife refuge as they sip Champagne in the gardens, the tigers keep escaping. ![]() ![]() Old twisted trees reach right out into the waves, and muddy little paw prints pile up on the marble tiles. There are dozens of them growling and toddling around this sprawling Dickensian estate. ![]() See all 20 stories.Īt the mansion by the sea, the tiger cubs are loose again. Journey to the far reaches of the universe and satisfy your curiosity along the way. Our Explainers dive deep into life’s mysteries. ![]()
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