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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Psychology

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  • Lucid dreaming involves awareness during dreaming, merging REM sleep vividness with wakeful self-awareness.
  • Previous research focused on functional brain activity, leaving structural correlates of lucid dreaming traits unexplored.
  • Distinguishing neural bases for lucid versus ordinary dream recall remains an area needing investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the structural brain differences associated with individual variations in lucid dreaming frequency.
  • To differentiate the neural correlates of lucid dreaming from those of ordinary dream recall.
  • To explore both grey matter (GM) and white matter (WM) morphometric features using a multimodal approach.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a data-driven, multimodal neuroimaging technique: mCCA+jICA.
  • Analyzed joint and modality-specific GM and WM morphometric features.
  • Utilized a validated self-report measure for lucid and non-lucid dream recall frequency.

Main Results:

  • Lucid dreaming frequency correlated with a joint GM-WM component (frontal, temporal, parietal, cerebellar regions) and a GM-specific component (visual/attentional areas, cuneus).
  • Ordinary dream recall frequency was exclusively associated with two WM-specific components.
  • No overlap was found between the structural correlates of lucid dreaming and ordinary dream recall.

Conclusions:

  • Individual differences in lucid dreaming are associated with distinct, distributed structural brain systems involving metacognition, imagery, and volitional control.
  • The neural basis for lucid dreaming appears distinct from that of general dream recall, with unique GM and WM contributions.
  • Findings support the integration of cortical and subcortical systems for lucid dreaming, mediating self-awareness and internal simulation.