Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.