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Imagine a doctor has entered your mind while you’re dreaming, and you’re making difficult decisions, but with a lucidity that you haven’t achieved while awake. You’re thinking this is a great idea for a novel or film, but it doesn’t happen in reality. Well, you’d be wrong. While science is closing in on a better understanding of our brain connections in dreaming, they have leaped forward in communicating with “lucid dreamers“. Yup. That’s what I said. Communicate with someone while dreaming. Lucid dreaming, the idea depicted in the film Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is regarded as a “hybrid state of waking consciousness and sleep“. It is suggested that decisions can be made during this type of sleep, but not so with planning. That uses a different part of the brain, and is very detailed which requires one to be awake. But decisions that are straight up choices can be influenced during this type of sleep. That is precisely what the film Inception is about: influencing a man to make a different decision, and he believing it was not only his idea but the right thing to do. more