Has anyone ever used MRI to watch the lucid dreaming brain?

[Lady Grimbones]

I had a lucid dream the other night, first one in a long time, and I woke up soon after getting lucid and that seems to be a regular problem with everyone. Since it is a common problem I was thinking that there must be some part of our brain that is normally 'asleep' during dreaming and that is why it is hard for us to get lucid and recall dreams in general. Could there be a way to quiet this part but still remain lucid and why hasn't someone like LaBerge done MRI, or has he?, to know exactly what is going on, or at least as close to as you can, in the brain at this lucid stage? He could make a drug or some sort of magnetic 'hat' thing that would help turn on that part of the brain or simulate a lucid dream experience or whatever. If we could get a 'picture' of the lucid dreaming brain we could recreate that pattern in other brains. They have magnetic 'hats' that they have been using to test Buddhist meditators and such if they knew what areas to turn on or off they could recreate that pattern in anyone's mind even those not technically asleep and you could have lucid dreams at any time. In theory anyway. Just a thought. :-)