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I happen to quite like this exercise - in general and especially since you say, there is an aha moment involved!
Still having an eye on this.
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And I would like to do a bit of off-topicing, sorry, for DMTisYOU.
It got buried in the thread, where you ask, if something is worth to get a thread in Lucid Dreaming News:



It's a scientific analysis - and they have actually found something, if funnily not directly on topic, something on genes and memory.
The text, I wrote for that post comes in the spoiler:

Spoiler for from my original post, pertaining to the video:

I have something pretty interesting - funnily - this scientist talks maybe 90% of the time only about sleep-research as such.
The original question - is there a connection between the state of dreaming - and esp. lucid dreaming - and the experiences generated by Ayahuasca - is initially mentioned and follows almost as a side note in the end.

I have no personal experience of the latter - but there are a lot of sleep-facts in it - especially interesting I find, that they have identified a gene and it´s product, which gets markedly activated, when a memory consolidation takes place while sleeping.

They had rats in a boring environment, where there was nothing to learn, and rats with toys and labyrinths and stuff - and these did indeed activate that gene while dreaming - and also showed other activation patterns in other methods - not sure there any more.

They are discussing, that during normal dreams - certain regions connected to awareness and also executive function do not take part.
Same thing as in your thread about what can be seen in fMRI while lucidity (Zoth - not being in the decision process for that thread any more, though: http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-drea...ming-news.html

If this does not constitute recommending to consume entheogens - which I do not think it does - I´d like to open a thread about this topic.

The video belongs to a lecture-series put forth by MAPS.
Got to say - I am a bit reluctant about putting myself more or less publicly in connection to it - but they are renowned for their scientific approach to this controversial subject - non-profit too.

You could just take this post as a thread and I will edit the question about the posting aspect out by editing!
Title would be - well - either the video-title: "How Similar to Dreaming is the Ayahuasca Experience?" or something less captious - like - "New Insights In The Mechanisms Of Memory Consolidation While Dreaming"
Thanks for looking into it!