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Consciousness & Sleep
Lucid Dreaming as Cognitive Architecture: How Conscious Awareness During REM Sleep Restructures Waking Perception and Emotional Processing
When the dreaming brain becomes aware that it is dreaming — the state neuroscience terms lucid dreaming — something unprecedented occurs: the prefrontal cortex reactivates within the neurological context of REM sleep, creating a hybrid state of consciousness that exists nowhere else in the human experiential repertoire.
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