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‘I love you’: the first phrase detected from dreams

OBJECTIVE: Many people have dreams nightly and some maintain consciousness during dreams. Such dreams are referred to as lucid dreams (LD). During dreams, our speech correlates with facial muscle activity, which is hard to decode, but LD could solve this problem. The primary hypothesis of this study...

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Autor principal: Raduga, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Brazilian Association of Sleep and Latin American Federation of Sleep 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9210561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35755904
http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1984-0063.20220035
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description OBJECTIVE: Many people have dreams nightly and some maintain consciousness during dreams. Such dreams are referred to as lucid dreams (LD). During dreams, our speech correlates with facial muscle activity, which is hard to decode, but LD could solve this problem. The primary hypothesis of this study was that the facial muscles electric activity during LD corresponds to specific sounds. Understanding this connection could help decode dream speech in the future. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Under laboratory conditions, four LD practitioners were asked to say “I love you”, a phrase with a distinctive electromyographic (EMG) signature. They did this before falling asleep and then again after becoming conscious during a dream. Their facial and neck EMG was recorded in four areas. RESULTS: All four volunteers accomplished the goal at least once. The patterns associated with the “I love you” phrase were observed in most cases, both during wakefulness and LD. Specifically, the “I” triggered distinctive phasic activity in the submentalis area most of the time, while “you” did the same in the orbicularis oris. DISCUSSION: This study highlights the possibility of detecting only specific and highly EMG distinctive phrases from dreams because vocalization also involves a tong and vocal apparatus. The most interesting consequence of the present results is that they indicate the possibility of creating an artificial EMG language that could be instantly decoded in reality and used during LD.
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spelling pubmed-92105612022-06-23 ‘I love you’: the first phrase detected from dreams Raduga, Michael Sleep Sci Original Articles OBJECTIVE: Many people have dreams nightly and some maintain consciousness during dreams. Such dreams are referred to as lucid dreams (LD). During dreams, our speech correlates with facial muscle activity, which is hard to decode, but LD could solve this problem. The primary hypothesis of this study was that the facial muscles electric activity during LD corresponds to specific sounds. Understanding this connection could help decode dream speech in the future. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Under laboratory conditions, four LD practitioners were asked to say “I love you”, a phrase with a distinctive electromyographic (EMG) signature. They did this before falling asleep and then again after becoming conscious during a dream. Their facial and neck EMG was recorded in four areas. RESULTS: All four volunteers accomplished the goal at least once. The patterns associated with the “I love you” phrase were observed in most cases, both during wakefulness and LD. Specifically, the “I” triggered distinctive phasic activity in the submentalis area most of the time, while “you” did the same in the orbicularis oris. DISCUSSION: This study highlights the possibility of detecting only specific and highly EMG distinctive phrases from dreams because vocalization also involves a tong and vocal apparatus. The most interesting consequence of the present results is that they indicate the possibility of creating an artificial EMG language that could be instantly decoded in reality and used during LD. Brazilian Association of Sleep and Latin American Federation of Sleep 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9210561/ /pubmed/35755904 http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1984-0063.20220035 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9210561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35755904
http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1984-0063.20220035
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