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According to the results of a European Science Foundation (ESF) workshop, it may be that sleep therapy could help treat patients with psychosis. Experts have found that brain activity patterns in people dreaming are roughly the same ones that occur in psychosis episodes. Additionally, others have proposed over the years that a strong evolutionary correlation may exist between the two phenomena, and the scientists at the meeting have proposed that dreaming may be an efficient way to combat psychosis.
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The experts underline the fact that lucid dreaming and psychosis are very similar. In the case of the former, people know they are awake, but are also aware that they are dreaming at the same time. This hybrid state of mind generates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the human cortex, which can be recorded using electroencephalograms (EEG), for example. Expert Ursula Voss, from the University of Frankfurt, in Germany, argues that lucid dreaming sends the brain into a dissociated state, in which patients lose conscious control over mental processes, including logical thinking or emotional reaction.
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The experts underline the fact that lucid dreaming and psychosis are very similar. In the case of the former, people know they are awake, but are also aware that they are dreaming at the same time. This hybrid state of mind generates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the human cortex, which can be recorded using electroencephalograms (EEG), for example. Expert Ursula Voss, from the University of Frankfurt, in Germany, argues that lucid dreaming sends the brain into a dissociated state, in which patients lose conscious control over mental processes, including logical thinking or emotional reaction.
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