Practical Applications

This is an excerpt from a very interesting book I'm reading, 'Making up the Mind' by Chris Frith, which I thoroughly recommend:

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Yue and Cole asked one group of volunteers to train the muscle that controls the little finger for four weeks, five sessions per week. Another group only imagined making these contractions, also for five sessions per week. A third group, the control group, did not do any training at all. After five weeks, the average force that could be exerted by the little finger had increased by 30% in the real training group and by 22% in the imaginary training group. The change in the control group was a trivial 2.3%. This study shows that practicing movements in the imagination can increase strength almost as much as real training can.

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Therefore, it makes sense to me that this can be applied in lucid dreams - training muscles, or studying, or practicing some kind of activity, in a lucid dream could very well have the same effect as doing so in real life.

I thought this seemed to present a very useful practical application for lucid dreaming, if dreaming about an activity is similar to imagining the activity.

That's pretty interesting Patrick.. it's amazing how strongly the mind and body are linked! :)

I've heard this stat about research on soccer teams and tennis players. Not sure which ones were fake, but it's an interesting one.

Certainly mental tasks like playing piano and strategic sports will also be helped by dream practice.

I have read simmilar experiments before. I do agree that it makes for a great practicle application for Lucid Dreaming. It's also a great place to practice speeches. I know that when I reherse in a dream, I feel alot better about doing it in real life.