So your question is whether or not dark pulse would work to induce REM in humans? If you have a partner willing to sleep with the lights on, give it a try. Mammalian brains have some similarities, from what little I know, and every single one of us evolved sleep patterns dependent upon circadian rhythms. Rats are naturally nocturnal and that makes me wonder if they would respond differently (more brain activity, for instance) based on a sudden reduction or elimination of light.
My other question would be whether or not this "dark pulse" response is dependent upon overall sleep deprivation of the rats (from sleeping under lights). It may be that from sleep dep. alone they are being dropped into a quick REM state. Just speculating here; I have not read the articles in full.
My question would be why this would affect lucid dreaming? We already can "induce" REM fairly easily via timing: near the end of the traditional 8 hour sleep cycle (6.5 to 7 hours), you will almost certainly enter REM upon falling asleep, with very little NREM space. How do you foresee this changing lucid dreaming? Do you mean the possibility of being able to induce REM at will, and therefore, lucid dream on your work break, for instance? I would want to know more about the conditions that need to be met before rats (and, potentially, people) will respond positively to dark pulse therapy (I shudder to think of such a thing).
Thanks for the info, though--helps me out with some other stuff I've been working on!
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