Connection between Lucid dreams and Physical body
LRLR signals have shown that eye movements in a lucid dream correspond to physical eye movements.
Another study has shown that if you do squats in a lucid dream, your heart rate rises and you sweat as if you are doing squats in real life.
Lucid Dream monitoring techniques and their significance
Neuroimaging
(Baird)
Neuroimaging is the production of images of the brain through magnetic resonance imaging or computerized tomography.
Neuroimaging has shown that the prefrontal cortex which is responsible for personality and emotion, and the perennial lobe which is responsible for processing your senses, are both largely involved in lucid dreaming
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LRLR Signals (Left-right-left-right signals) (Baird)
LRLR signals are when a person moves their eyes left, right, left, right, then center while in a lucid dream.
When the person is in a lucid dream, their eye movements in the dream correspond to their physical eye movements.
Allows the dreamer to communicate with the outside world while dreaming.
Discovered that lucid dreams last an average of 14 minutes, which is shorter than the average typical dream
EEG
(electroencephalograms)
Determines the electrical activity in parts of the brain, and is used in many lucid dream studies, but has mixed results.
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