London, Dec 22 (ANI): "Lucid dreamers", dreamers who have "waking dreams" that they control, are able to learn new skills in their thoughts, a new study has found.
A team of researchers at Yale is now experimenting with the idea of "training" people by telling them what to dream about.
According to the researchers, while the idea of "walking through" someone's dreams, as was shown in the hit movie 'Inception' is fictional and likely to remain so, dreams are good for more than just entertainment.
"We know that by engaging circuits in the brain we can change its architecture," the Daily Mail quoted Yale's Peter Morgan as saying.
People who can control their dreams can use the unusual ability to experience a sense of euphoria, as if they have accomplished something.
But new research hints that people can actually "use" dreaming as a tool to learn.
Being in command of dreams opens up opportunities to manipulate them for learning and training, although it may not be quite as precise as learning to play the violin while asleep.
Instead, "lucid dreamers" can control areas of their brain to open up and "learn" while they sleep.
The researchers found that lucid dreamers perform better in a gambling task, designed to test a part of the brain important to emotional decision-making and social interactions.
Peter Morgan at Yale University and his colleagues think that this region can be trained.
The study has been recently published in New Scientist. (ANI)
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