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There is very little scientific data on dream enhancement. One reason for this is during REM sleep, the skeletal muscles of the sleeping body are inhibited which makes it otherwise impossible for the dreamer to signal that they are in a lucid state<ref name=":0">Lucid dreaming: Neural virtual reality as a mecha-

1Institute of Sports and Sports Science, Heidelberg University, Germany 2Florida Atlantic University, USA </ref>. Although this has been known to malfunction in neuro-atypicals in the form of sleepwalking.

 

There has been some recent scientific interest on the idea that REM dreams are a kind of a simulation of the real world on a higher cognitive level implies that dreaming could alter waking performance<ref name=":0" />.