finally proving lucid dreams

I was watching a show on the discovery health chanel about patients being concious but unable to move or speak during surgery. They could feel everything that was going on, but could not let the doctors know because they were under a sort of sleep paralyses. Anyway theres a new machine that certain doctors are using that measures brain activity while the patient is out and determines the level of concoiusness. I'm sure that this can not be too different than if you were lucid dreaming, because your mind is concoius, just not your body.

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They could feel everything that was going on, but could not let the doctors know because they were under a sort of sleep paralyses[/b]

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Great, that'll give me nightmares! Could you imagine?!

That sounds like it was a very interesting show. I wonder though, if this "machine" can actually measure different levels of consiousness. I mean, being able to tell the difference between conscious and unconscious is one thing (done with brainwave measurement) - but being able to set appart the many levels or "layers" of consciousness would imply that these levels are something tangible and measurable. If measurable, then it's contollable. If controllable, then we should have the technology (or bio-technology) to send ourselves right into these levels at will.

Am I getting off topic here? Sorry if this sounds like nonsense. :? Wish I had cable, I loved watching that channel!

It will be a while before this technology could prove lucid dreams. First we have to have people who are willing to study the possibility. I hope it really does work. That would be interesting. It will take reasearch and money, but doesn't almost everything?

what we need to invent is a machine that one can switch on and off the sleep paralysis "center" in the brain at will... and time it like... now im gonna do some LD for 1 hours and after that the paralysis is removed again. That would be awsome. Would it just be to stimulate the right spot?