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[Mayll0]

Hey guys, i've found my passion in lucid dreaming and I really want to pursue it in the future so that I can spread this "art" and help people. But I am having a bit of a inner struggle and need a little help from you guys. Is it better , for me as a (hopefully) future dream researcher, to attend psychology collage, or medicine (neurology, neuroscience)?

[IAmCoder]

Welcome! Medicine if you can... will open up doors to deeper research, like MRI. You can still read some psychology books on the side as a doc with a special interest. And as a doc you should be able to run any studies oder tests a psychologist could, but not the other way around. Then again, as a psychologist I imagine you would have more time on your hands...

[Courga]

I think it depends on where you interests lie, specifically. If you want to study the physical response of the brain to lucid dreaming (for example, which area are active during certain lucid tasks, or if lucid dreaming can be used to help heal or to learn new motor skills), neuroscience may be a good area. But if you want to document what is possible in a lucid dream or attempt to find common threads between lucid dreamers (best techniques, curing nightmares, etc.) then psychology may be better. I would recommend finding some publications about lucid dreaming that interest you, then researching the scientists that wrote them. What did they study for their undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. degrees, and what universities did they attend?